how to call a action in javascript

[_jasy_]

hi..

am a learner..

can anyone guide me how to call a action in Illustrator CS2 using javascript

thanks in advance,

Jasy

[JETalmage]

Can't. You're supposed to be able to do the inverse: call a script by using Insert Menu Item in an Action. But it's been broken for four versions now.

JET

[DHounam]

So the first half of the statement at the bottom of p.48 of the CS2 Javascript scripting reference --

"A script can execute an action, but actions cannot execute scripts"

-- is a lie...?

[Guest]

You can't do it in javascript, the DoScript call is missing from the Application API. You can call actions and javascript scripts from VB. The workaround is to use VB to call the action and your javascript. BTW, anyone from Adobe want to comment on why this is so ?

[mwdiers]

The whole point of using Javascript was that it is cross-platform. I can run the same Javascript on our Macs and PCs. You mean to tell me thet if I want to run Actions, I have to create an Applescript AND a VBScript wrapper in order to continue to use our existing Javascripts? This is total BS! How can this still be true after three revs of the scripting engine?!

[J4e8a16n]

Yep!

Maybe they prefer Apple. Maybe most of their buyers comes from that side.  Maybe they dont know how to script.

Java would have been to hard for most of us. Javascript is everywhere on the web ... pages.

After so many years, they did not put the effort and money . This scripting idea is still for ' amateur' and to compensate for I dont know what.