PS Plugin - self trigger event ?

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January 26, 2022
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Hey

So I've been going over photoshop SDK left and right for MAC.

I need to trigger my plugin from within plugin without photoshop requesting the action...

For example if I run a processing thread, when finish, I'd like to tell ps to "run my plugin" and then properly handle the result when PS call my plugin and put it in correct thread loop.

Can any1 suggest if/how that can be done? Or alternatively, how can I trigger plugin from outside PS on MAC ?

On windows I can do it via MFC for example, but on MAC?

Ideas?

TIA.

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Tom Ruark

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If your plugin is scriptable then create an Apple Script event and send that to Photoshop. OLE/COM/VBScript/Automation event on windows.

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Dariusz1989Author

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Hey @Tom Ruark

Thank you for info!

Hmmm. Do you mean that I should call from plugin thread applescript event ? Is that a "fast" action ? I want to remotely control photoshop & allow user to manipulate it as if he was using it directly. If say user scroll a widget to adjust exposure, would it be a good idea to spam that apple script event? Hints? - I'm fairly new to Mac dev, mostly win here.

Also, if say I run my plugin 1x and it creates javascript engine & never deletes it after plugin end... what if I then send commands to that engine from thread? Would that be thread save by any chance? I take c++ code would be not, but maybe it is... ? o.o

COM is that MFC ?

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Dariusz1989Author

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Hey @Tom Ruark any chance you could help out with this topic maybe ?

Regards

Dariusz

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