Toggle anti-aliasing tools on and off

Question

Is there a way in Photoshop to easily switch rectangluar marquee, oval marquie, magic wand and fill to not use anti-aliasing in one go? Not individual tools. In that, I often to pixel art and want to switch all anti-aliasing settings to off and then back on again when I'm done.

I don't think this is possible via scripting, tool settings, workspace settings.

JJMack · Accepted Answer

Jazz-y is very good at Photoshop scripting. However the code he posted is missing a comma and did not include the Paint Bucket Tool. So I added the missing comma and added the Paint Bucket Tool and code to make the script a toggle. However, For some reason the Rectangle Marquee Tool's Ant-a;ias is not toggling???

"ToggleAntiAlias.jsx"

#target photoshop;

var s2t = stringIDToTypeID,
    c2t = charIDToTypeID,
    tools = {
        marqueeRectTool: 'MrqA',
        marqueeEllipTool: 'MrqA',
        lassoTool: 'DrwA',
        polySelTool: 'DrwA',
        magneticLassoTool: 'DrwA',
        magicWandTool: 'WndA',
	    bucketTool: 'BckA',
    },
    antiAlias = true;
	
var desc = new ActionDescriptor(); 							// Set up Photoshop to remember variables
try {var desc = app.getCustomOptions('antiAlias Toggle');}	// Try to get CustomOption for Toggling
catch(e) {
	desc.putInteger(0,1);									// 1 true
	app.putCustomOptions('antiAlias Toggle',desc,false);	// Initialize CustomOption for Toggling
}
var Toggle = desc.getInteger(0);                            // get CustomOption for Toggling
if (Toggle) {
	antiAlias = false;
	desc.putInteger(0,0);    
}
else {
	antiAlias = true;
	desc.putInteger(0,1);    	
}
app.putCustomOptions('antiAlias Toggle',desc,false);			// CustomOption for Toggling
for (t in tools) {
    (d = new ActionDescriptor()).putBoolean(c2t(tools[t]), antiAlias);
    (r = new ActionReference()).putClass(s2t(t));
    (d1 = new ActionDescriptor()).putReference(s2t('target'), r);
    d1.putObject(s2t('to'), s2t('target'), d);
    executeAction(s2t('set'), d1, DialogModes.NO);
}

JJMack · Answer

I do not think you can toggle Photoshop UI and if you can some an other script could also you would still need to check the state of the option in the tool option bar when you use the tool. Eacj tool has ite options ithe tool oprine bar is not the same foe all tools the toggle would not bet common to all tools. You would need to create you own toggle the keep all tools in sync with your master toggle. The problem is you can not use an event handler to sync them for event handlers are traggered after the event. After the tool has been used.,

You can Script using the Anti-Alias option in script I developed a Plug-in script that can be used in Actions to pass aspect ratio to the script to mats a selection or path relative the the current document's size. Its hard to deal with size in Actions. A little scripting goes a long way.

Create a function using Action Manager code like I created for my Plug-in script Aspect Ratio Selection that is modeled after Adobe Fit Image Plug_in Script. basically its Fit Image with a different function. The Plug-in can create a rectangle or elliptical its a combined tool for a selection or vector tool.

/* SetMarqueeSelection function from Scriptlistner plugin
// ========================================================================== */
function setMarqueeSelection(x1, y1, x2, y2, type, shape, feather, antiAlias, doPath) {
	if (doPath ==null) { doPath = false; }
	var SelectionType =null;
	if (type ==null)      {	var SelectionType = "setd" }
	if (type ==diminish)  {	var SelectionType = "SbtF" }
	if (type ==extend)    {	var SelectionType = "AddT" }
	if (type ==intersect) {	var SelectionType = "IntW" }
	if (type ==replace)   {	var SelectionType = "setd" }

	var id3	= charIDToTypeID( SelectionType	);
	    var	desc2 =	new ActionDescriptor();
	    var	id4 = charIDToTypeID( "null" );
		var ref1 = new ActionReference();
		if (doPath) {
			var id5	= charIDToTypeID( "Path" );
			var id6	= charIDToTypeID( "WrPt" );
			}
		else {
			var id5	= charIDToTypeID( "Chnl" );
			var id6	= charIDToTypeID( "fsel" );
			}
		ref1.putProperty( id5, id6 );
	    desc2.putReference(	id4, ref1 );
	    var	id7 = charIDToTypeID( "T   " );
		var desc3 = new	ActionDescriptor();
		var id8	= charIDToTypeID( "Top " );
		var id9	= charIDToTypeID( "#Pxl" );
		desc3.putUnitDouble( id8, id9, y1 );
		var id10 = charIDToTypeID( "Left" );
		var id11 = charIDToTypeID( "#Pxl" );
		desc3.putUnitDouble( id10, id11, x1 );
		var id12 = charIDToTypeID( "Btom" );
		var id13 = charIDToTypeID( "#Pxl" );
		desc3.putUnitDouble( id12, id13, y2 );
		var id14 = charIDToTypeID( "Rght" );
		var id15 = charIDToTypeID( "#Pxl" );
		desc3.putUnitDouble( id14, id15, x2 );
	    var	id16 = charIDToTypeID( shape );
	    desc2.putObject( id7, id16,	desc3 );
	    var	id17 = charIDToTypeID( "Fthr" );
	    var	id18 = charIDToTypeID( "#Pxl" );
	    desc2.putUnitDouble( id17, id18, feather );
	    var	id19 = charIDToTypeID( "AntA" );
	    desc2.putBoolean( id19, antiAlias );
	executeAction( id3, desc2, DialogModes.NO );
}

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