use 'line segment tool' in script ?

[Zoster the Monster]

hi there!

does anyone know if the line segment tool can be used in a script? i mean drawing a line segment by inputing a starting point, an angle and a length.
i searched in the adobe reference pdf and on google, but couldn't find the answer.

(i am writing in JS)

thanks!

[JETalmage]

You don't "use a tool" to draw a path in Javascript. But you can create paths programmatically. See the Javascript Reference and look at PathItems method add() and PathItem method setEntirePath().

JET

[Zoster the Monster]

yeah...what i meant was if i could generate a path in a similar way with the line segment tool, where you input the starting point, an angle an a length. i thought maybe adobe made a build-in method to do this. seems not, but it's quite easy to do it manually. it's something like this:

let's say x and y are the coordinates of the starting point, then:
first anchorpoint [x,y]
second anchorpoint [ x+cos(angle_in_radians)*length_in_points , y+sin(angle_in_radians)*length_in_points]