Capturing a script from Photoshop CS2

Question

I have a third party program that runs a series of scripts in Photoshop CS2. The developer of the program is no longer around and I am hoping to update the script to run on Photoshop CC. 
 
From the 3rd party program, I set up all the details and click run. It then switches focus to Photoshop and runs a series of scripts that eventually generates a composite tiff.
 
How can I see what the steps are so that I can make changes so the script will run in the latest version of Photoshop? Currently, I have to run a virtual box with CS2 in it to get the output.
 
Is there any way to set up debugging in Photoshop? What can be done? Thanks in advance.

Stephen Marsh · Answer

The easiest thing to do is open the scripts into a plain text editor, at the basic level using Note Pad. I prefer more capable plain text editors that offer syntax highlighting and regex – such as Note Pad++, Crimson Editor, EditPad Lite etc on Windows. There are similar plain text editor options for the Mac (I like BBEdit).

If you run a "broken" script Photoshop will error out with a message and line number stating what the problem is.

If you wish to use an IDE with a debugger, then the old Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit is one option, or the new Adobe ExtendScript Debugger extension for MS Visual Studio Code (not Visual Studio) would be the common choices.

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