Is there a way to clear or delete actions through scripting?

[djbgraphicdesign]

Hello Everyone!

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I'm trying to make a script that will clear and then reload actions to try to get around that bug. Thanks to quertyfly and moluapple I now know how to make actions through script so all I need to know if there is a way to clear actions through script.

Thanks Everyone!

[Qwertyfly___]

hey silly, your posting using your email.

[Silly-V]

Ha, I got a couple of CC accounts through my jobs, so I got tangled up!
Okay, here are some screenshots, and as you may be able to see, it's more than a trivial matter to encode the .app file:

[Qwertyfly___]

Train of thought:

js creates a .txt file containing the string of sendkeys.

run the precompiled .app script

.app reads this text file and uses the contained string to sendkeys.

[Silly-V]

Yea, that's a pretty good idea, can you gift yourself a Mac for xmas?

Although, there's got to be a way to make the .app simply execute my .scpt script without opening or running through script editor, but I just don't know enough about the commands for that.

[Qwertyfly___]

I can't even warrant an upgrade for my PC...

That and I want a new lathe...

[Silly-V]

Hmm, well if you got any print shops or promo companies nearby, surely you could hustle some funds!

[Qwertyfly___]

Ha,

I am in a promo company with an in-house print shop.

but the salary pays my mortgage...

[djbgraphicdesign]

Been a while since I've been on here, glad it could help. All the credit goes to qwertyfly I learned how to do that from qwertyfly's script earlier with the send keys to make the file menu pop up. Another thing I found useful is I make a keyboard shortcut for isolation mode and I use the send keys to isolate things as well during some scripts.

[Qwertyfly___]

Thanks for the credit, it's a bit hack but I find it very useful.

Shame it does not translate to mac so well.

[Silly-V]

I believe Qwerty just solved this! I don't have a CC AI to test on right now, but I will check it out tomorrow!

[Silly-V]

As for actions triggering scripts, hmm I think for synchronicity, there could be workarounds and while loops to run against an action-made condition (such as new layer with a name, or some kind of work path marker) where a script will know that once this condition is created, the action has played successfully.

However, unloading a set using this method really created some possibilities, which is very nice. Now we can distribute scripts with actions as strings inside them, for the ultimate power! Ha, I would have never thought to try what you did Qwertyfly...‌ great discovery.  This one will be moving us forward for sure.

[djbgraphicdesign]

HOLY CRAP!! Well done, well done.

[Qwertyfly___]

still want to work out a way of having the start up script activate file menu.

so that we can remove an action set and then reload it so that scripts are registered

[Silly-V]

Well I don't think you actually need to remove or reload an action set to show the scripts there, doesn't just showing the file > scripts menu after start make an action remember the script?

[Qwertyfly___]

no, by the time you activate the file menu, the actions panel has already loaded the actions and decided it can't find the scripts...

[Silly-V]

Oh I see, well, I guess one "shorter" way to do this would be to have your reloading script inside the script menu, and when you start up AI again, when you activate that reloading script from the file menu, it will at least save the clicks inside the Actions palette

[Qwertyfly___]

I have an idea.

give me a bit to see if I can get it to work....

[CarlosCanto]

Silly-V wrote:

Oh I see, well, I guess one "shorter" way to do this would be to have your reloading script inside the script menu, and when you start up AI again, when you activate that reloading script from the file menu, it will at least save the clicks inside the Actions palette

That's what I thought the next best approach would be, but the other issue was the Set not being deleted, at least that was the case with CS5, I haven't tried wit CC yet

[djbgraphicdesign]

That would be the icing on the cake. One script to rule them all