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olverart
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October 10, 2022
Question

ScriptListener not working in Photoshop 2022 or any other version

  • October 10, 2022
  • 7 replies
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Hello, I'm having issues making ScriptListener.8li plugin to work on my Photoshop. Windows 11.

Photoshop 2022  ( v23.5.1 ).

(This is happeninig on any Photoshopo version so I assume something is happening that I'm not aware of.

I upgraded my computer to Windows 11 and installed everything from scratch. I tried to install the ScriptListener plugin and using the next code to turn it ON and OFF but it gives me an error. I put the ScriptListener.8li under the Plug-ins folder of all my Photooshop versions and it is not working on any of them.

Issues:

  • Nothing logs into the Desktop. No ScriptListener.log file is created when using Photoshop. I already tried to create a "Desktop" folder because I saw I have OneDrive active but nothing happens though.
  • When I run this code, it igves me an error:
    /////////////////////////////////////////////
    var listenerID = stringIDToTypeID("AdobeScriptListener ScriptListener");
    var keyLogID = charIDToTypeID('Log ');
    var d = new ActionDescriptor;
    d.putBoolean(keyLogID, true);
    executeAction(listenerID, d, DialogModes.NO);
    ////////////////////////////////////////////

 

I would appreciate some help here, I'm kind of stuck for some scripts I'm creating.

Thanks!

7 replies

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 2, 2024

Is your windows 11 running on an ARM processor?

Serg9
Known Participant
December 2, 2024

Definitely not ARM. Old good x86-64 (in 64bit mode, of course).

Serg9
Known Participant
December 2, 2024

I have the same problem with the Photoshop 25.11 on Windows 11 23H2.

Photoshop sees the plugin and says it is loaded, but the plugin does not work - no log files created anywhere.

I have tried all the suggestions from this and nearby topics and no luck 😞

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 11, 2022

You put the ScriptListener.8li plugin into

 

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2022\Plug-ins

 

In photoshop did you look under Help>System Info to see if the ScriptListener.8li is listed?

 

 

 

olverart
olverartAuthor
Inspiring
October 12, 2022

Hello Jeff,

Seems it is loaded but not working.

 

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 11, 2022

In Win 10, the path that works for me is:

 

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2022\Plug-ins\Scripting Utilities\ScriptListener.8li

olverart
olverartAuthor
Inspiring
October 11, 2022

Thank you Stephen, I tried this and still not working I don't know why, also gave all permissions on Properties and still nothing.

Bojan Živković11378569
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 11, 2022
olverart
olverartAuthor
Inspiring
October 11, 2022

Thank you Bojan, I just responeded there, appreciated!

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 11, 2022

Right click on the ScriptListener.8li plugin then click Properties and see if windows is blocking it.

olverart
olverartAuthor
Inspiring
October 11, 2022

Thank you Jeff, I went to the Properties and allowed the plugin permissions for everything and didn't worked :/.

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 10, 2022

Check to make sure your using the 64 bit version of the ScriptingListener plug-in

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/downloadable-plugins-and-content.html

olverart
olverartAuthor
Inspiring
October 10, 2022

I'm using the 64 bitr version, I also tried using the 32 bit to see if something happens but still having the 
stringIDToTypeID("AdobeScriptListener ScriptListener") as an unknown command.