Make a simple name for file path

[Huynh Trung Thuan]

Hi everybody,  I'm new with extendscript and when i scripting have some problem. I want to make a script can apply my preset to layer but when I create file path to dropdown list. It create a long name with path.

Can you help me to create a name for long file path and conect with ffx file locate in this folder?

var path1 = "Macintosh HD/Users/mac/Desktop/develope Ae/ae scripting/preset/opacity key.ffx"
var path2 = "Macintosh HD/Users/mac/Desktop/develope Ae/ae scripting/preset/opacity key 2.ffx"
var path3 = "Macintosh HD/Users/mac/Desktop/develope Ae/ae scripting/preset/opacity key 3.ffx"
var preset1 = new File (path1);
var preset2 = new File (path2);
var preset3 = new File (path3);


var mainWindow = new Window("palette", "Dr.Motion", undefined); 

var groupPreset = mainWindow.add ("group");
groupPreset.orientation = "row";
groupPreset.add ("statictext", undefined, "Preset:"); 
var myDropdown = groupPreset.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, [preset1,preset2,preset3]);

var buttonGroup = mainWindow.add ("group");
buttonGroup.add ("button", undefined, "Apply");
buttonGroup.add ("button", undefined, "Cancel");

mainWindow.show ();

Thank you for your help. Sorry for my bad english.

[Justin T - Hyper Brew · Accepted solution]

If you want to display the full path, you'll want to decode your URIs, so you remove %20 and all that:

File.decode(myFile)

If you just want to select from a list of the filenames, then you can get the filename with displayName:

myFile.displayName

And store that in an array to reference your full file objects. 

[Huynh Trung Thuan]

Thank you for your help, can you help me how to make a preset ffx file include in jsx file without linking file in external folder?

[Justin T - Hyper Brew]

Yes you write it to a file, then encrypt the file as a binary string. Here's one way of doing it. Start a new thread if you have more questions on this since it's a new topic.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15087701/batch-convert-images-to-binary-strings