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Oviya___
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April 24, 2009
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Action calling...

  • April 24, 2009
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Hi,

    I want to call action from illustrator sdk.  I recorded one action for drawing polygon and called from sdk but its not working correctly.  I think i did not pass parameters correctly. But i dont know how to pass parameter for tat action call. When i see action it show 4 parameter center X, center Y, radius, sides but when i saved that action it shows 8 parameter count.  I dont know how many parameters have to pass? And how to pass tat?  If anyone knows pls let me know...

   Thanks in advance.

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A. Patterson
A. Patterson
Inspiring
April 24, 2009

Are you trying to call the action you recorded? Or are you trying to call an action for one of the operations your recorded action used? If its the former, you should be able to just specify the name I believe, and you should get whatever parameters you recorded.

If you're trying to invoke an action for a specific Illustrator operation, yes, you'll need to know the parameters & specify them properly.

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Oviya___Author
Known Participant
April 25, 2009

Hi,

    Im new to the illustrator... So i dont know how to find that parameters.. It varries from action palette and action file (like default.aia) when we open and see tat file. How do i know which one is correct no.of parameters and how to pass tat to call tat action we recorded...

  Some of the built-in actions in the header files(AIDocumentAction.h) have internal name of the action(adobe_closeDocument) and parameters also (all, save like tat)... But the action file which i recorded contains like tat...

Swatchdeletion.aia

/version 2
/name [ 4
73776174
]
/isOpen 1
/actionCount 1
/action-1 {
/name [ 3
73726d
]
/keyIndex 0
/colorIndex 0
/isOpen 1
/eventCount 1
/event-1 {
/internalName (ai_plugin_swatches)
/localizedName [ 8
5.37762E+15
]
/isOpen 0
/isOn 1
/hasDialog 1
/showDialog 1
/parameterCount 1
/parameter-1 {
/key 1835363957
/showInPalette -1
/type (enumerated)
/name [ 13
44656c65746520537761746368
]
/value 3
}
}
}

      This is swatch deletion recorded by manually..  When i calling its not working correctly.. i think i have to pass swatch name or index to tat... but dont know how?  Pls tell me how to find that parameters and calling tat?

    Thanks in advance.

Toto RoToTO
Toto RoToTO
Inspiring
April 27, 2009

reeading your .aia, you have got only one parameter to set, which is type of enumerated.

you could try to do as follow:

    AIErr result = kNoErr;
    AIActionParamValueRef valueParameterBlock = NULL;
    ActionDialogStatus dialogStatus = kDialogOff;

    try
    {
        result = sAIActionManager->AINewActionParamValue(&valueParameterBlock);
        aisdk::check_ai_error(result);   

        if (valueParameterBlock)
        {           
            result = sAIActionManager->AIActionSetEnumerated(valueParameterBlock, "yourkey", "your key value"));

            aisdk::check_ai_error(result);           
        }    
    }
    catch(ai::Error& ex)
    {
        result = ex;
    }

You could use this site to convert your key from int to a readable format!

http://www.vortex.prodigynet.co.uk/misc/ascii_conv.html

then only call the command correclty!

thomas.

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