Closing a document within Javascript.

[Catkonon]

I'm new here and new to javascripting in photoshop (though not new to javascript).

I've been trying to figure out how to do the equivalent of either the "File>Close" or the "File>Close All" menu item. Preferably programmatically specifying changes not be saved as the script will have saved what it wanted saved before closing.

I can't find a sample of this nor could I find other references to it in the forum. I'd appreciate any help that can be provided for this.

Thanks,

Steve Ellis.

[MarkWalsh]

Access the applications documents collection:

application.documents[0].close(false)

You can download the Javascript reference here: Adobe Photoshop CS3 JavaScript Scripting Reference

[Michael_L_Hale · Accepted solution]

I think what Mark posted must be Applescript. Here is how with Javascript

app.docRef.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES); // save any changes - only works with files that have been opened or saved once
app.docRef.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);// doesn't save -works with any doc including new ones

[Catkonon]

Thanks the second suggestion did the trick.

I figured out how to convert the first suggestion to javascript, but couldn't figure out what to convert the "true" to.

Thanks again.

Steve.

[MarkWalsh]

Sorry about that, my brain seems to be running a little buggy today. I neglected to look up the proper options for the close command (as well as typed out 'application.' instead of 'app.')

app.documents[0].close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES)

You can loop through the documents collection to close all opened documents.

[xbytor2]

Close the current document without saving:

app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

Close  all open documents without saving:

while (app.documents.length > 0) {
   app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
}

[jonathanw96483303]

Not sure why, but this answer didn't work for me.

Instead, I used below:

app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.no);

(This was for indesign 2019)