AM-code executes dreadfully slow

[Sergey Kritskiy]

Dear everyone,

I have one user, on his machine (Windows10 on a i5 skylake Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga + PS CC14) AM code executes awfully slow.

For example, this takes 0.04s on my old machine and 20s on his

var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt"));
var appDesc = executeActionGet(ref);

Does anyone know what could be the reason?

Thanks,

Sergey

[DBarranca]

Might depend on the number of Fonts he has installed, or stuff like that.

As a rule (and when possible! which is not always the case) prepend the app descriptor get with the prop you're interested into, so that you're retrieving that only, e.g.

// DO
var ref = new ActionReference ();
ref.putProperty (stringIDToTypeID ("property"), stringIDToTypeID ("interpolationMethod"));
ref.putEnumerated (stringIDToTypeID ("application"), stringIDToTypeID ("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID ("targetEnum"));
var interpolationDesc = executeActionGet (ref);
var theInterpolationMethod = typeIDToStringID (interpolationDesc.getEnumerationValue (stringIDToTypeID ("interpolationMethod")));
alert (theInterpolationMethod);
// DON'T
var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); 
var applicationDesc = executeActionGet(ref);
var theInterpolationMethod = typeIDToStringID(applicationDesc.getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID('interpolationMethod')));
alert (theInterpolationMethod);

Hope this helps!

Davide

[Sergey Kritskiy]

Thanks Davide!

I need to get an object

            var ref = new ActionReference();
            ref.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt"));
            var appDesc = executeActionGet(ref);
            var curToolOpt = appDesc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID('currentToolOptions'));

And If I understand correctly, I can't make this faster than getting the whole 'capp' thing

[SuperMerlin]

In this case you need to use "tool" to get "currentToolOptions"

var ref = new ActionReference();  
ref.putProperty (stringIDToTypeID ("property"), stringIDToTypeID ("tool"));
ref.putEnumerated (stringIDToTypeID ("application"), stringIDToTypeID ("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID ("targetEnum"));  
var appDesc = executeActionGet(ref).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("currentToolOptions")); 

[Sergey Kritskiy]

Thanks, SuperMerlin, exactly what I need!

May I ask you, how can I find certain property stringID? Like with tool in this example? Because I have some other objects I'm getting from 'capp'

[SuperMerlin]

Try the one that should work first if not you have to experiment with other values.

[Sergey Kritskiy]

I'm sorry I don't think I understood. The one that should work...?

[Sergey Kritskiy]

Ah, I got it. Sorry for spam!