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Marschland Media & Arts
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January 30, 2019
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Is there an eventListener available when an object gets selected/deselected?

  • January 30, 2019
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Hi,

I just started with scripting and was able to build a panel that uses a .jsx to evaluate shapes and returns the results to the HTML. But for each result I would have to use a button in the HTML to fire the .jsx-function.

<a href="#" onClick="update()" id="refresh"><img src="../img/RefreshDark.svg"></a>

So update() fires a function in ExtendedScript via csInterface.evalScript(). So far so good, everything works as expected.

What I need now is firing this function in JSX whenever I select or deselect an object (path/group/compound). The eventListeners I found so far are not capable of tracking selections as far as I understand. Is there a way to imitate such a behavior as for example the info panel? Whenever I select an object it instantly updates position and size of said object. How can this be achieved for my own panel without having to click a button/link?

Thank you in advance, especially for all the old threads and tutorials you guys created on several personal sites.

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Correct answer CarlosCanto

you might be able to add more events, try to find AIHostAdapter plugin

here are some helpful links

Re: afterSelectionChanged & afterSelectionAttributeChanged events in Illustrator

Re: Eventlistener for edit text in illustrator

Re: Event listener when TextFrameItem is edited

6 replies

Inspiring
February 18, 2022

Yes there is, i using 

afterSelectionChanged
 
app.addEventListener("afterSelectionChanged", function(evt){
if(app.selection[0] !== undefined){
var thePageItem = app.selection[0];
// DO THE THING
}
});
Ten A
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2019

This thread moved from Illustrator Scripting to Extensions / Add-ons Development and...

You can reference events in Illustrator CC SDK->Marked Object sample plugin project.

Check below page...

Adobe Illustrator CC SDK for plugins and extensions | Adobe I/O

Marschland Media & Arts
Participant
January 31, 2019

Ten, thank you for the info and link. I briefly checked it before and now I took a closer look. Unfortunately this is too complicated for me right now. I just filled my head with all the new "make a panel" information and the SDK way seems to be too steep of a learning curve for me right now. Maybe I'll tackle this one with the next extension but for now I am happy the AiHostAdapter got me to where the extension needed to be.

Trevor:
Legend
January 31, 2019
CarlosCanto
Community Expert
CarlosCantoCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 31, 2019
Marschland Media & Arts
Participant
January 31, 2019

Thank you Carlos for your input. I already read all of those topics multiple times but I was hoping to get around using any plug-ins. I now used the AiHostAdapter and it works like a charm, so I now need to figure out how to create a hybrid extension that deploys the plug-in along with the panel.