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Anonymous
February 18, 2010
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Photoshop flash panel: Get selected tool?

  • February 18, 2010
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I'm trying to make a custom toolbar (in Flex) which shows some of the tools

as buttons (amongst other things). I'd like to query the chosen tool somehow

so I can change the related button's style to reflect that.

First I thought that it will work like getting the background color of the application,

but after reading through the JS reference guide, I saw no relevant properties or

methods.

I also looked at how Configurator does it, but the .gpc and .jsx files weren't very

helpful. As a related note: Configurator's tool buttons look and behave exactly

like the PS "originals". Is it possible to reproduce that in Flex?

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Correct answer Paul Riggott

You can get the current tool in javascript..

alert(currentTool());
function currentTool(){
var ref = new ActionReference(); 
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); 
var cTool = typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationType(stringIDToTypeID('tool')));
return cTool;
}

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Michael_L_Hale
Inspiring
February 18, 2010

Zoltan Erdokovy wrote:

As a related note: Configurator's tool buttons look and behave exactly

like the PS "originals". Is it possible to reproduce that in Flex?

I can not find the link now( I think it was on Jack Nack's blog ) but there is a set of skins for Flex that will make most of the controls look the same as they do in the native Photoshop dialogs.

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Anonymous
February 18, 2010

Thanks Michael for the pointers.

The skin pack and installation instructions are at the bottom of the page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/

Paul Riggott
Paul RiggottCorrect answer
Inspiring
February 18, 2010

You can get the current tool in javascript..

alert(currentTool());
function currentTool(){
var ref = new ActionReference(); 
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); 
var cTool = typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationType(stringIDToTypeID('tool')));
return cTool;
}
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