[Q] Handling selection changed event

[Naoki-Hada]

Hi all,

Is it possible to handle when selection has changed in ExtendScript?

I'd like to do like following code, but I'm not sure the capabilities.

I appreciate any comment or suggestions.

Thank you.

Test code: not working
#target illustrator testOnChange = function(param){     alert("App selection has changed."); } app.selection.addEventListener("change", testOnChange, false);

[Ten A]

Hi,

Illustrator dosen't support selection events.

If you want to trigger such events, You need to make Plugin like HostAdapter.aip and CEP extension that bridge events to Extendscript.

[Naoki-Hada]

Ten A​, Thank you very much for the pointer. I'll check into the details.

I've got your link also.

  Extension Builder Trial 終了直前特集 - 手抜きLab＠DTPの現場

CEP extension is fine for our case. Actually it would be better that no need to think about JSX to CEP.

Thank you

[Ten A]

You can read as reference about Extensions:

Adobe CEP · GitHub

Extension Builder 3 | create HTML extensions for CC applications - Adobe Labs

GitHub - davidderaedt/CC-Extension-Builder-for-Brackets: A brackets Extension for building Creative ...

GitHub - ten-A/net.sytes.chuwa.packagetool

Have a fun!

[Naoki-Hada]

@Ten A, Thank you very much for the links. I'll check into details.

[birnerseff]

Hi,

I am looking for the same thing, but try to avoid CEP (I have some jsx experience and dont want to learn plugins and EP at the same time. Do you have any pointers for that?

[CarlosCanto]

no, there's nothing new after Ten's answer 3 years ago