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jessemac_design
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June 10, 2014
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How to more fully control the save dialog function.

  • June 10, 2014
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Alright, first of all I don't know if what I'm asking is possible. I basically want to trigger a Save As dialog that opens to a specified folder and has custom text in the "Save As:" box, so the user can just review it and commit it. I know it's possible to do all of this through normal saveAs commands but I really need the ability to review and edit the file path and name before committing the save.

I know how to specify a folder for the save dialog to open to and I also found a gimmicky way to get my own text into the "Save As:" box by passing it as a nonexistent folder path, but I cannot get them to both happen at the same time. Any help or workaround would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 10, 2014

Photoshop ships with scripts that do Save As file types.  For example "Image Processor.jsx" and  "Export Layers To Files.jsx"  I would suggest looking at the code in these. I created as "SaveAs.jsx"  plug-in script for my own use with code stolen from "Export Layers To Files.jsx".

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jessemac_designAuthor
Inspiring
June 10, 2014

Great idea, I'm fairly new to all of this stuff, so it's gonna take me a while to try and figure these out. In the meantime if there is a simple solution to getting custom default text into the saveDlg(); function that would be great.

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 10, 2014

saveDlg(); ???  what is that? Where did you see that? Is that some applescript thing?

JJMack
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