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shoot me now
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March 10, 2013
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Scripted actions are glacially slow

  • March 10, 2013
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Windows 8, CS5 64 & 32

I'm using Margulis' PPW set which is an extension panel and associated actions. When the actions are invoked by the panel, they run slow enough to time with a calendar, except for the rare occasion when they run as they should -- no pattern established yet (just downloaded PPW this morning). The actions run fine if launched from the actions palette.

It also appears another extension is also running at less than full speed, but it's not nearly as complex so I hadn't really focused on its behavior. So it seems this is not a new thing, but it's now become unbearable using PPW.

Any ideas?

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Michael_L_Hale
Inspiring
March 10, 2013

One thing that can effect playback speed that is also the easiest to check is your playback options in the action panel. Can you post a link to the panel? It's may be possible that I can look at what it is doing to see if there can be any other speed improvements. Often replacing Photoshop Object Model code with Action Manager can make a big difference. Especially if it is working with multiple layers

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shoot me nowAuthor
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March 10, 2013

I assume you meant post a link to a screen shot of the panel, but this is the relevant info: Playback options, performance is set to accelerated.

I don't know about replacing code. Are you referring to editing the jsx file? This may have an effect, but what about the fact that it will sometimes run normally? I can use the same image and run the same sequence and most of the time it just crawls along... and then, out of nowhere, WHAM, it flies.

Relaunches and reboots don't seem to guarantee a good run, but good runs tend to occur after one of those things has happened. Once it bogs down, that's it.  Anyway, tell me what you want me to provide and I'll get on it.

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Michael_L_Hale
Inspiring
March 11, 2013

I meant a link to where I could download the extension panel. But I did a search and found it. I had hope it was released under some kind of public license that would let me modify the code under those terms. However it is not so there is really nothing I can do to the script to speed it up. It looks like you will have to wait for the next version release which the download page said was coming soon and hope that fixes the speed problems.

At a guess I would say the speed problem is occurring with the swf to jsx communication. It is not so much that the script itself is slow to run but more that there is a delay between when you click on a button in the panel and when the script get the command to run from the panel.

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