Dynamic Actions - Delete Unused Swatches

[nearz]

Hi All,

I was able to get Silly-V's dynamic actions tutorial to work for some pathfinder commands that I needed access to. I have now tried it with selecting and deleting unused swatches, but it does nothing. I set app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS, thinking the alert that is given when you delete the swatches was the problem but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

function unusedSwatch(){
    actionString = [
        '/version 3',
        '/name [ 8',
        '756e757365647377',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 1',
        '/actionCount 1',
        '/action-1 {',
        '/name [ 8',
        '737774636864656c',
        ']',
        '/keyIndex 0',
        '/colorIndex 0',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/eventCount 2',
        '/event-1 {',
        '/useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0',
        '/internalName (ai_plugin_swatches)',
        '/localizedName [ 8',
        '5377617463686573',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/isOn 1',
        '/hasDialog 0',
        '/parameterCount 1',
        '/parameter-1 {',
        '/key 1835363957',
        '/showInPalette 4294967295',
        '/type (enumerated)',
        '/name [ 17',
        '    53656c65637420416c6c20556e75736564',
        ']',
        '/value 11',
        '}',
        '}',
        '/event-2 {',
        '/useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0',
        '/internalName (ai_plugin_swatches)',
        '/localizedName [ 8',
        '5377617463686573',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/isOn 1',
        '/hasDialog 1',
        '/showDialog 1',
        '/parameterCount 1',
        '/parameter-1 {',
        '/key 1835363957',
        '/showInPalette 4294967295',
        '/type (enumerated)',
        '/name [ 13',
        '    44656c65746520537761746368',
        ']',
        '/value 3',
        '}',
        '}',
        '}'
   ].join('\n')
        $.writeln('hit')
        doc = app.activeDocument
        var aiFile = doc.fullName.fsName
        var dirArray = aiFile.split('/');
        dirArray[dirArray.length-1] = 'unusedsw.aia'
        var newPath = dirArray.join('/')
        var f = new File(newPath)
        f.open('w')
        f.write(actionString)
        f.close()
        app.loadAction(f)
        app.doScript('unusedsw', 'swtchdel')
        app.unloadAction('unusedsw', '');
        f.remove();
}

[Charu Rajput · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The above code will run when document is alreday saved and tosuppress the dialog which comes to confirm to delete swatches can be done by changing value of showDialog 1 to showDialog 0. Below is the complete snippet, that will run even if documenr is not saved. I have commented that part. Also suppress the dialog.

function unusedSwatch(){
    actionString = [
        '/version 3',
        '/name [ 8',
        '756e757365647377',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 1',
        '/actionCount 1',
        '/action-1 {',
        '/name [ 8',
        '737774636864656c',
        ']',
        '/keyIndex 0',
        '/colorIndex 0',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/eventCount 2',
        '/event-1 {',
        '/useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0',
        '/internalName (ai_plugin_swatches)',
        '/localizedName [ 8',
        '5377617463686573',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/isOn 1',
        '/hasDialog 0',
        '/parameterCount 1',
        '/parameter-1 {',
        '/key 1835363957',
        '/showInPalette 4294967295',
        '/type (enumerated)',
        '/name [ 17',
        '    53656c65637420416c6c20556e75736564',
        ']',
        '/value 11',
        '}',
        '}',
        '/event-2 {',
        '/useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0',
        '/internalName (ai_plugin_swatches)',
        '/localizedName [ 8',
        '5377617463686573',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/isOn 1',
        '/hasDialog 1',
        '/showDialog 0',
        '/parameterCount 1',
        '/parameter-1 {',
        '/key 1835363957',
        '/showInPalette 4294967295',
        '/type (enumerated)',
        '/name [ 13',
        '    44656c65746520537761746368',
        ']',
        '/value 3',
        '}',
        '}',
        '}'
   ].join('\n')
        $.writeln('hit')
        // doc = app.activeDocument
        // var aiFile = doc.fullName.fsName
        // var dirArray = aiFile.split('/');
        // dirArray[dirArray.length-1] = 'unusedsw.aia'
        // var newPath = dirArray.join('/')
        var f = new File(Folder.desktop + "/unusedsw.aia");
        f.open('w')
        f.write(actionString)
        f.close()
        app.loadAction(f)
        app.doScript('swtchdel','unusedsw')
        app.unloadAction('unusedsw', '');
        f.remove();
}

unusedSwatch();

Hope this works for you.

[Silly-V]

The action set name and action name are switched - Charu's example is reversed.

[Charu Rajput]

Hi Vasily,

I think syntax is like, if I am not wrong 🙂

app.doScript('Action Name','Set Name')

I tried in reverse way but it did not work for me.