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frmlbamstrdm
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November 22, 2023
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Run a Automation Blocks script from another UIX panel

  • November 22, 2023
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In Automation Blocks, I have a script called PrepareMyProject.xml

 

Would it be possible to RUN this custom script by pressing a button on another UIX panel?
(So actually: is it possible to make a custom interface to run script, in stead of having to search scripts in the Automation Blocks library.)

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    Correct answer Mathias Moehl

    PS: If you use the runScriptFile event, since the script is not loaded into the UI, you also cannot see the execution status (error messages) in the UI. But you can start the CEP debugger by opening in Chrome

    http://localhost:2029/
    and the Automation Blocks API will write the results in the log you can see there.


    update: the new feaure is now published and documented here:

    https://docs.mamoworld.com/automation-blocks/executeScriptsCEPEvents

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    Mathias Moehl
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    Mathias MoehlCommunity Expert
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    November 22, 2023

    We support that in the Ae version of Automation Blocks, but unfortunately not in Pr. The only reason we don't support it is because Premiere Pro does not give us a clean way of doing that. From my communications with the Premiere Pro team I understood that they hesitate to give third party extensions the ability to use keyboard shortcuts because they feel they need all shortcuts of the host app itself. I disagree with that view and think the user should descide for what he needs shortcuts and I hope this will be changed in the future.

     

    As far as I know, Excalibur monitors the keyboard in the background to work around this limitation, which is a pretty dirty hack with unwanted side effects (like it does not know if a popup dialog is currently open, in which case the keyboard shortcut should be ignored).

     

    I want to avoid such hacks and highly encourage everybody to submit a feature request to the Premiere Pro team. Please ask them to give third party CEP and UXP extensions the ability to use keyboard shortcuts, such that Automation Blocks tools could be launched with a keyboard shortcut, like they can in Ae.

    Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects
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      frmlbamstrdmAuthor
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      November 22, 2023

      Hi Mathias, thanks, but actualy, I was not talking about Keyboard Shortcuts, but about a button in another UXP panel.

      So, If I have my own HTML UXP panel, could I launch one of Automation Blocks custom XML script from my script?

       

      Mathias Moehl
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      Mathias MoehlCommunity Expert
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      November 23, 2023

      Hi,

      this is not possible right now, but actually a very interesting feature request! How would you want this feature to work. The easiest way would probably to make Automation Blocks listen to a CEP event in which you simply pass the XML of the tool.

       

      Limitations of that approach would be

      - If the tool has input blocks, it would execute with those set to their default values, unless we come up with some way to pass input arguments to the event, too. But this sounds rather complex.

      - No way to execute the build-in sample tools instantly. You would first need to save a copy of them to an XML file, before you could execute them.

       

      Is this what you would need?

       

      Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects
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        Zwea
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        November 22, 2023

        I think you can assign shortcuts to execute scripts in Excalibur. I've read something about the customization options but haven't tried it yet.

         

        Hopefully someone else can enlighten us.

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