History Panel

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I'm still on 19.3 - can anyone confirm if the same info is available through scripting in 19.5?

[Laubender]

Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker ,

I'd say that even more info is available.

Why? The new History panel is only recording AFTER you saved a new unnamed document.

That's not the case with scripting…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Thanks but my question was - is info from the panel available as an extra collection - like myDoc.TextFrames or myStory.Tables?

Is there myDoc.History collection or something like that? 

[Laubender]

Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker ,

I have to check this. I'm not sure…

My guess is that a possible collection will not start at the panel.

It would be a document property; an array.

We already have something like this for years.

There is a document's redoHistory and undoHistory, both arrays of strings.

And you go through it with document redo() and document undo() step by step.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker ,

I have to check this. I'm not sure…

My guess is that a possible collection will not start at the panel.

It would be a document property; an array.

We already have something like this for years.

There is a document's redoHistory and undoHistory, both arrays of strings.

And you go through it with document redo() and document undo() step by step.

By @Laubender

Yeah, I know. I was hoping for more. 

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

As far as I can see there's what we've always had: app. and document.undoHistory and .redoHistory. app.documents[0].undoHistory returns what you see in the History panel. That panel's functionality is not exposed as far as I can tell.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Thanks @Peter Kahrel.

Could you please check if there are at least new entries for Invoke()? 

[Laubender]

@Peter Kahrel said: "That panel's functionality is not exposed as far as I can tell."

Hi Peter,

new menuActions should work with method invoke().

( As long as there is no dialog the user has to answer as a result. )

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Peter Kahrel]

Well, ok, you can use invoke(), true. The last-resort solution if nothing else works.

> Could you please check if there are at least new entries for Invoke()? 

The answer is 'Yes. there are.' And just in case you want to know what they are, here you are:

//Name                 Id

Step Backward     149253
Step Forward       149249
Clear History        149256
Delete                   149254
New Document   149251