Refresh List of Presets in Develop Settings?

[wizbowes]

Is it possible to force a refresh of list of the presets in the develop settings menu?  I want to get around this issue:

1)  Right click an image and select develop settings - a list of the presets in the CameraRaw/Settings folder is shown in the submenu.

2)  With bidge remaining in the foreground open, change the contents of the presets in the CameraRaw/Settings folder (I'm doing this with a jsx script in my case).

3)  Right click an image and go to develop settings again - the list shown is the same as the list in step 1.

4)  Give any other application focus and then come straight back into bridge.

5)  Right click an image, select develop settings again - this time the preset list reflects what's in the CameraRaw/Settings folder.

So is it possible to force bridge to refresh that list somehow within my jsx script?

[Paul Riggott · Accepted solution]

Sorry no you can't alter a menu once it's been created.

You can access any of the items in the develop settings with...

//Develop Settings > Camera Raw Defaults
app.document.chooseMenuItem("CRDefault");
//Develop Settings > Previous Conversion 
app.document.chooseMenuItem("CRPrevious");
//Develop Settings > Copy Settings
app.document.chooseMenuItem("CRCopy");
//Develop Settings > Paste Settings
app.document.chooseMenuItem("CRPaste");
//Develop Settings > Clear Settings
app.document.chooseMenuItem("CRClear");

You can't give focus to another application but you can send commands to another Adobe suite application using BridgeTalk

You can de-select all thumnails and select the ones you want to work on, a few commands below might be of use....

//change Bridge to folder
app.document.thumbnail = Folder(Folder.desktop + "/myfolder");
//de-select all thumbnails
app.document.deselectAll();
//select thumbnail
var thumb = new Thumbnail(thumb);
app.document.select(thumb);

[wizbowes]

Thanks.

I didn't think you could force it.  It's a bit annoying as bridge clearly refreshes this menu itself after it's been created when you give another application focus and then swicth back to Bridge.

Ho hum.  Will need to think of another solution