P: SDK: Provide photo:updateAISettings () to update the AI settings of a photo

[John R Ellis]

There's currently no way for a plugin to update the AI settings for a photo. For example, users of my Copy Settings plugin must do a manual Update AI Settings after copying masks.  If there were photo:updateAISettings(), then Copy Settings could save users that manual step.

[sb-x]

In order to make AI masks truely usable from the SDK, some way to trigger the Update AI Settings is essential. Doing this as proposed by @John R Ellis would be perfect. Otherwise at least being able to trigger the batch Dialog to update the AI Setttings from the Application or Catalog with a set of photos would also be a option.

[john beardsworth]

photo:updateAISettings() has been added in the 13.3 release.

[sb-x]

Thats great!

one thing i noticed when using it:

When i do 

photo:applyDevelopSettings(settings)
photo:updateAISettings()

within one catalog:withWriteAccessDo block, it does not seem to know the new settings already and therefore does not calculate the new masks.

If i split them into two catalog:withWriteAccessDo, first applying the settings and then updating ai settings, it seems to work. Not sure if thats the intended behaviour, or if it should rather take the new settings into account directly?

Also, if i loop over multiple photos and trigger updateAISettings for all of them, there will be one dialog popping up for every photo, one after the other, always just processing 1 photo. Maybe some way to batch this (since the dialog supports running for multiple photos) would be nice.

Also, if i can be of help in testing new implementations upfront, before the release, let me know. I'd be happy to beta test.