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Anonymous

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1.Assign shortcuts to scripts 2. Actions remember insert menu commands when app is started

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
September 27, 2010
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It been ask before... Many times. There is probably a current request right now. It will be asked again... And again... And again... Under keyboard shortcuts, allow scripts to assigned a shortcut. Also have actions remember insert menu commands when the application is restarted. Was patiently waiting years ago... Now I am starting to grit my teeth. When my dentist lectures me over grinding my teeth, she will not be as forgiving as I have been over the years. It is time to set a small portion of available resources to fix and add functionality to this.

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Alolkoy

Participant

Finally!

In Illustrator 2018 windows, when I assign a custom script to an action and then close Illustrator and re-open it the action retains the script. This was not true in previous versions.

This means you can now assign a script to an action and then assign a keyboard shortcut to the actions and it will still work when you re-boot Illustrator.

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David Davidov

Participating Frequently

Why are they doing this to us?

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Maybe I misunderstood your question:

• Are you asking why somebody would want to be able to trigger a Script via a Keyboard Shortcut?

• Are you asking why somebody would want to be able to include a menu item in an Action and have it remain there after restarting?

ShivendraAgarwal

Participating Frequently

This bug has been fixed. You can find Scripts retained in Actions post relaunch in recent pre-release builds.

https://forums.adobeprerelease.com/illustratorpr/discussion/comment/3459#Comment_3459

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Neeraj Nandkeolyar

Adobe Employee

This original issue has been fixed and should be available in the next update of Illustrator.

Silly-V

Legend

Wow nice, can't wait!

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aktivomat

Participating Frequently

(if not already mentioned here) for me this video was the solution: Setting a hotkey for illustrator script in automator - YouTube

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Thanks for a Mac-solution.

To me it seems the Illustrator team’s (or maybe rather Adobe management’s) performance is disappointing (to use a very mild term) to necessitate using such a process to circumvent a bug.

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David_Entwistle

Inspiring

On the subject of keyboard shortcuts for scripts:

An alternative solution would be to provide a palette of available scripts. This was proposed two years ago by vliff, who mentioned the example set by the Scriptographer extension. Scriptographer only works as far as AI CS5, and (sadly, because it's a great extension) is something of a dead end. Here's an example of what it provides:

You select objects on the page, click the required script in the palette, and the script runs. What could be easier? You could include far more scripts than could be covered by keyboard shortcuts, and maybe (as above) group related scripts in folders.

I have already approached Astute Graphics in the UK, who produce lots of AI plug-ins, to ask if they would consider creating a Script Palette. Regrettably they declined, but only because they don't see scripting as their thing.

But to anyone who knows how to write AI plugins, surely this would be a fairly simple job? This forum could agree a specification. And I – and probably many others too – would happily pay for a copy.

3286849

Participant

Hi everyone in case you haven't already this form: Illustrator Feature Request/Bug Report Form is where i have been directed to by support so lets continue to fill this out until something is done.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I have reported the issue with said form on several occasions.

Is more than a decade really not enough time for fixing what looks like a simple bug to a layman – or is referencing a jsx file in a atn-file simply impossible for some reason?

I know that »the people programming this obviously do not use it themselves« is not a likely assumption in general but Illustrator’s strange shortcomings (having some worse path handling features than Photoshop for example) and remarkable bug-not-fixing performance (edited) seem flat-out astonishing.

Silly-V

Legend

I made a quick script which at least helps reload the actions when they are in a specific folder, so that the script menu items will show again. It works by manually selecting this script from File > Scripts, which by definition shows the Script menu, which makes the menu items work in actions down the road- and since the script reloads all actions, it saves those clicks.

Only works in CS6+

Re: Actions: "Insert Menu Item" Script still not saving CS6

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Illustrator 19.1.0 is here – unsurprisingly more than a decade of the Scripts-in-Actions bug has apparently still not been deemed enough to merit the attention it would take to fix it …

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Illustrator 2015.3.0 – chalk up another one for the bug.

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davidn92468579

Inspiring

My workaround has been to use Keyboard Maestro to trigger Illustrator scripts and just ignore Actions.

Admittedly, script users are a select audience, but the features are there to save an Action that triggers a script - so it's a bummer that the Action disappears when I close the program. It seems it wouldn't be too hard of a bug to fix. Bigger fish to fry I suppose. Still, it'd be cool to fix it, Adobe .

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davidn92468579

Inspiring

I discovered this bug with Illustrator 2014, and it is an irritating one that seems to be persisting with the program. As described in this thread, I record my script menu action, set up the hotkey, save it and then it's gone on reboot. Very frustrating.

Qwertyfly___

Legend

Workarounds...

Silly-V‌ put a good palette together, very much worth a look.

ScriptUI window.minimized = true; on Mac

another option I have explored, and I use. not perfect but works.

setup and auto script to run on illustrator start.

it deletes your action set, then activates the file menu, then reloads the action set.

I do need someone familiar with applescript to add some code for the macsters, right now it only works on pc.

also note that welcome screen can cause it to fail, along with opening illustrator by opening a file.

for best results open illustrator and let it go for a min before opening files etc.

Is there a way to clear or delete actions through scripting?

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Illustrator CC 2015 is here and apparently the bug concerning Scripts in Actions has been maintained …

When I have made mistakes myself I certainly prefer people not harping on about it but if a decade is not enough time for the Illustrator team to fix one particular bug that seems kind of deliberate and somewhat offensive.

I don’t claim to be able to judge how difficult and time-intensive it would be to fix this bug but I have difficulties imagining that it is impossible to fix.

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AWright1

Participant

Bahaha — I just replied with my clever solution, and realized that the second part of this thread is about the Insert Menu Command being dropped between restarts. That's due to the loading order of scripts and actions, I'd guess — actions get loaded first and those menu items don't exist yet, so they get dropped.

My fall-back solution, on a Mac anyway, has been the ol' CMD+SHIFT+? shortcut to open app-specific spotlight, and then just type the name of the script you want to run. It's nowhere near as elegant as a keyboard or mouse shortcut, but it's better than having to manually click through those menus and eyeball the script you want.

— Aaron

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