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I doesn't still found these files yet.
You didn't look for them hard enough. Go to this page and at the very bottom you'll find the links: both for Windows and Mac.
Agree and download Bridge CS6 SDK for Windows (ZIP, 4.9 MB)
Agree and download Bridge CS6 SDK for Macintosh (DMG, 5.3 MB)
Anyway, here's a working code to illustrate you how to return the result and error from BridgeTalk message. (Based on the code you posted). I used the latest Illustrator and Photoshop.
...#target illustrator
var width = "8
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They are there, but the file names are a little different.
See the documentation in SDK: bridge_cs6_sdk_win_001\sdksamples\javascript\docs\index-all.html
For example, SendArrayToPhotoshop.jsx in fact, is SnpSendArray.jsx
However, their examples, (though they're well tested and always work) are a little bit confusing: you can make it much simpler. I recommend you to search for BridgeTalk on the InDesign scripting forum. I posted a few examples here on my site.
Also, when I studied BridgeTalk (long ago in the times of CS3) I found that the sample code in the JavaScript Tools Guide CS3.pdf had a lot of mistakes and didn't work. (Don't know how the things are going in the latest edition.)
— Kas
Hi Kasyan Servetsky​,
thanks a lot for your answer. It was helpful, but not really helpful in detail. I doesn't still found these files yet.
And I found and have read your linked thread a few days ago. Useful, but unfortunately only at half.
I can call BridgeTalk and it does what it should be. But at the end I need the results in the first target engine.
Let me go into deep with an example.
The reason is: Illustrator is not good for measurements of the real area of pathItems or compoundPaths or groups of items. That's why I need a workaround.
- select somthing in Illu
- go to PS and open a exported file or insert the selection in a new created PS document
- check the pixels which not have transparency and do some maths
- give this informations back to Illu, e.g. as contents in a new textFrame (THIS PART doesn't works for me)
I do:
I select (by hand) an item or agroup of items (works)
I start my script in Illustrator from a palette or script menu. (works)
I call PS with BridgeTalk and work with the exported file or the clipboard information. (works)
I collect the informations that I want, and do same maths in PS. (works)
I can show the collected informations as an alert or as en editable edittext in a window. (works)
But it is not possible for me to give the collected informations back to illustrator and do the next steps in illustrator with these new informations.
Here is a very very simple example code. In this case I want to work with the variable w and h (from PS) in Illu after BridgeTalk is completed.
#target illustrator
_gotoPS();
// In know about asynchronous behavior in BridgeTalk
// this alert pop up too early, but it's only for showing the behavior
alert("How I can get variable w and h (values of arr[]) and use here in Illu?");
// do somthing in Illu with the variables from PS
// eg new TextFrames.add() with contents w and h
function _gotoPS(){
// do something
alert ("in Illustrator")
// do something
var bt = new BridgeTalk();
bt.target = "photoshop";
// do something
// be sure this is only a very simple example
bt.body = 'app.documents.add("800px" ,"1000px", 72, "Temp");app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;'+
'var w = activeDocument.width;'+
'var h = activeDocument.height;'+
'var arr = [];'+
'arr.push(w); arr.push(h); arr.push(w*h);'+
'alert(arr[0]);'+
'alert(arr[1]);'+
'alert(arr[2]);'
bt.onError = function(e){
alert(e.body);
};
// because bt.onResult is not useful for me
// because bt.onResult will also hold the variables here and I need them in Illu
bt.send();
};
Do you know a way how to do this?
I doesn't still found these files yet.
You didn't look for them hard enough. Go to this page and at the very bottom you'll find the links: both for Windows and Mac.
Agree and download Bridge CS6 SDK for Windows (ZIP, 4.9 MB)
Agree and download Bridge CS6 SDK for Macintosh (DMG, 5.3 MB)
Anyway, here's a working code to illustrate you how to return the result and error from BridgeTalk message. (Based on the code you posted). I used the latest Illustrator and Photoshop.
#target illustrator
var width = "800px";
var height = "1000px";
var resolution = "72";
var docName = "Temp";
CreateBridgeTalkMessage(width, height, resolution, docName);
function CreateBridgeTalkMessage(width, height, resolution, docName) {
var bt = new BridgeTalk();
bt.target = "photoshop";
var script = "DoSomethingInPS = " + DoSomethingInPS.toSource() + "\r";
script += "DoSomethingInPS('" + width + "', '" + height + "', '" + resolution + "', '" + docName + "');";
bt.body = script;
bt.onResult = function(resObj) {
DoSomethingInIlly(resObj.body);
alert("Hi! This is the result returned by BridgeTalk - " + resObj.body);
}
bt.onError = function(msg) {
alert("Oops! Error: " + msg.body);
}
bt.send(100);
}
function DoSomethingInPS(width, height, resolution, docName) {
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;
app.documents.add(width, height, resolution, docName);
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;
var h = activeDocument.height;
var w = activeDocument.width;
var arr = [w, h, w*h];
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.ALL;
$.writeln("Hey! This message is from Photoshop: w = " + arr[0] + ", h = " + arr[1] +", w*h = " + arr[2]);
return arr;
}
function DoSomethingInIlly(btResult) {
var reconstructedArray = btResult.split(",");
$.writeln("Reconsrtucted the array sent from PF in the DoSomethingInIlly function");
}
At the end, the script reconstructs the array sent from Photoshop:
Note line #13 -- you should be very careful with quotes here. I usually use combination of single and double quotes.
Now let's create an error condition:
BridgeTalk returns quite an informative message:
Regards,
Kas
Hi together,
came accross this old thread from 2017 today.
pixxxelschubser's issue is solved.
However, just to leave a note here.
The asked scripts are installed with every ESTK version.
From my German Windows 10 machine where Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC is installed.
The scripts can be found easily:
Applications (x86) > Adobe > Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CC > SDK > Samples > javascript
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )
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