Where are these files can be found?

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?