Convert photoshop action to script

[MidoSemsem]

Hi,

I'm using Photoshop 2022 on Windows. I'm trying to convert an Action to Script.

The problem is that the action has many steps and I want to undo the action entirely in one step.

I've converted the action into a script by Xtools, but it works exactly as an action.

Please help

[Chuck Uebele]

Is this an action that you created? Frankly, I would use scriptListener and redo the steps if the action to generate the javascript code from scriptListener. 

[MidoSemsem]

Thanks, I'll try.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Are you using suspendHistory?  A single history step doesn't happen by default.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

I think that it can be done otherwise, however, I have only had success wrapping the script into a function and then using suspend history by calling the function.

function main () {
    //your code here
}
activeDocument.suspendHistory("Run script", "main()");

[MidoSemsem]

It works.

Thank you very much

[Stephen_A_Marsh · Accepted solution]

I believe that you can also just call the action directly:

function main () {
    app.doAction("Molten Lead","Default Actions");
}
activeDocument.suspendHistory("Undo Molten Lead action", "main()");

[MidoSemsem]

I did it this way and it worked.

I also replaced 

app.doAction("Molten Lead","Default Actions");

with the script generated by Xtool and it worked. I can now save it as a complete separate script without the need for an existing action.