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Achim25042664lfw1
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Action not continuing when a shortcut is assigned to "play"?

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I have a flawlessly working actionset. It consist of multiple steps, with some stops in between.

When clicking the small play (mouseover label: play selection) button at the bottom of the actions panel after each stop, the action continues as it should and plays all following actions until the next stop.

Alternatively I can choose "play" in the submenu of the action palette (instead of clicking the play button) to continue after each stop.

What does not work is assigning a shortcut to that play function.

When using that shortcut after the first stop, the actions play as single steps only and stop after each action and I have to hit the shortcut again to continue. Multiple times using the shortcut gets me further, but that is not as it should work, correct? 😉

Could someone please second that here? (is this on a mac only?)

More importantly, could someone give me a solution or workaround? Any help would be appreciated!

 

I assigned the shortcut via Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and the respective Panel Menus entry.

See screenshots attached for the used options.

And I made sure, that in the Playback Options accelerated is chosen – NOT Step by Step. 🙂

 

Photoshop 23.4.1

MacOS BigSur
(the problem is reproducable on another mac running Mojave)

 

regards

Achim

 

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Correct answer Achim25042664lfw1

Yes, it does continue for one step only. And another when the shortcut is pressed and another and so on…

It is not an action I want to use the shortcut for, just the play function.

 

You know what? I changed the shortcut to F10 and it works! I changed the shortcut to command F10 and it does not!

Somehow, the command key must cause the action to not play on and stop after each step.

Your post was the solution – even if unintentional 😉

Thanks!

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Bojan Živković11378569
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Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
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June 29, 2022

From my testing using 23.4.1 and 22.5.8 on Win 11, Photoshop will always start from step 1 (one) whenever it stops because of Stop step and keyboard shortcut for that action is pressed.

Alexey Novoselov
Alexey Novoselov
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July 12, 2022

Hello!

Do not use ctrl and/or shift and everything will work as it should, just put F10 key for example.

Zesty_wanderlust15A7
Zesty_wanderlust15A7
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June 28, 2022

I use F1 to Play/Continue and work with a lot of stops too.

In Bugshop v23.3.1 on Windows that's working fine.

If you want an action shortcut functioning like Play/Continue, AFAIK that won't work. It can't have the Continue function and simply calls the action.

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There is one gotcha if you work with stops. You can't record clicking a subaction with a stop in it, unless you disable the stop. When it's been recorded you can enable the stop step again, BUT in the caller action you will not proceed to the next step anymore. You can use this to your advantage by calling that subaction with its stop in the last step of your main action. This way you can keep repeating that subaction with your Play/Continue key, which can be useful.

Anyway, your action does seem to continue, but only one step? In what I just described, you understandably don't continue at all.

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Achim25042664lfw1AuthorCorrect answer
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June 29, 2022

Yes, it does continue for one step only. And another when the shortcut is pressed and another and so on…

It is not an action I want to use the shortcut for, just the play function.

 

You know what? I changed the shortcut to F10 and it works! I changed the shortcut to command F10 and it does not!

Somehow, the command key must cause the action to not play on and stop after each step.

Your post was the solution – even if unintentional 😉

Thanks!

    Bojan Živković11378569
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    Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 29, 2022

    This does not work for me on Win using Ps 23.4.1, by the way.

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