BridgeTalk not working in .jsxbin

[Mike Bro]

Hello,

when runnung this in the jsx file it works just fine but in a jsxbin file nothing seems to happen.

Does anyone here know what would need to be changed for this to work in a .jsxbin file?

CreateBridgeTalkMessage({file: myFile.toSource(),});

function CreateBridgeTalkMessage() {
    var bt = new BridgeTalk();
      bt.target = "photoshop";
      bt.body = "var myFile = File(\"" + myFile + "\");";
      bt.body += "var myPublishFolder = Folder(\"" + doc.filePath.parent + '/Final_Deliverables/Publish/'+ "\");";
      bt.body += "raster =" + raster.toString() + "\rraster();";
      bt.onError = function(errObj) {
      $.writeln("Error: " + errObj.body);
     };
   bt.send(100);
}

Regards,

Mike

[r-bin]

What exactly do you have "works just fine"?

Your function is declared without arguments, and you call it with a parameter.

Also what is (where defined) myFile, doc, raster ?

And in general, what result do you expect from this code?

[Mike Bro]

Hello @r-bin,

I should have been more clear, I have a .jsx file that exports a pdf "myFile" from Indesign and then BridgeTalk tells Photoshop to open the pdf, and save it back out as a rastered pdf to a location. This all works in the .jsx file but when I save as a .jsxbin file it only works until the BridgeTalk part. I don't get any error message except from Indesign when it checks to see if the rastered pdf exist or not. I only included the BridgeTalk portion that seems to break in the .jsxbin file.

Regards,

Mike

[Stephen Marsh]

Not sure if this is related or not:

https://www.davidebarranca.com/2013/09/bridgetalk-export-as-binary-failures/

https://www.davidebarranca.com/2012/11/scriptui-bridgetalk-persistent-window-examples/

[Mike Bro]

Hello @Stephen Marsh,

Thanks for the post... I looked at the link https://www.davidebarranca.com/2013/09/bridgetalk-export-as-binary-failures/ for a solution, the workaround otption to "move the separate function out of the binary encoding and leave it readable" won't work for me as this is just a small part of a very long script that's more than 1,300 lines of code. I believe you either have to remove the line breaks or add the \ at the end of each line in the binary encoding.

The workaround otption to "stringify the function" looks promising but I haven't had any success getting it to work.

Regards,

Mike

[jazz-y]

Have you tried to figure out what gets into bt.body? It would be useful to print the contents to the console, or save it to a jsx file (and try to execute it in photoshop manually).