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Creating preset from action descriptor

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April 26, 2020
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Is there a way to create a preset not based on ActionReference (r1), but directly from ActionDescriptor of tool settings (t)? essentially they refer to the same object, just in different ways...

var d = new ActionDescriptor();
	var r = new ActionReference();
	var r1 = new ActionReference();

	r.putClass( s2t( "toolPreset" ));
	d.putReference( c2t( "null" ), r );
	r1.putProperty( s2t( "property" ), s2t( "currentToolOptions" ));
	r1.putEnumerated( s2t( "application" ), s2t( "ordinal" ), s2t( "targetEnum" ));
	d.putReference( s2t( "using" ), r1 );
	d.putString( s2t( "name" ), 'test name' );
	executeAction( s2t( "make" ), d, DialogModes.NO );

r = new ActionReference()
        r.putProperty(s2t('property'), s2t('tool'))
        r.putEnumerated(s2t('application'), s2t('ordinal'), s2t('targetEnum'))
		t = executeActionGet(r).getObjectValue(s2t('currentToolOptions'))

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Correct answer r-bin

I seem to understand what you wanted.

I think without choosing a tool, i.e. without using "currentToolOptions", nothing will work.

I didn’t succeed.

R

r-binCorrect answer

Legend

I seem to understand what you wanted.

I think without choosing a tool, i.e. without using "currentToolOptions", nothing will work.

I didn’t succeed.

Kukurykus

Legend

Maybe you have a workaround how for this: BUG: New Tool Preset item is greyed for 9 tools

For ex. Note Tool is very alike to Count Tool, but for some reason we can't create new preset for that 2nd.

R

r-bin

Legend

It’s not at all clear what you want.
What is the app.addEventListener function?

Why do you need to create presets?

Do you know about
app.saveToolBrushToFile ()
app.applyToolBrushFromFile ()
?
Will they help you?

J

jazz-yAuthor

Legend

app.notifiers.add () , sorry thought about something else and wrote it 🙂

I would like the user to be able to use the latest states of the tool without making any special efforts to save them. Tool parameters can simply be stored in a variable without writting to a file, but then you need to provide control of these variables from a script - I don’t see the point in this approach, since all the necessary tools for this are already in Photoshop (presets).

R

r-bin

Legend

The descriptor can be saved to a file and read it from there to perform certain actions.
Anyway, nothing is clear.
Describe the complete algorithm for your intended actions.

JJMack

Community Expert

I don't know why you would want to do that. How did you set the current tool and its current settings in your script to begin with. If you could do that in you script why would you need to make it a named preset. I have seen scripts the set the current tool and select a tool preset or load a set of tool presets. I have never seen a script or action that creates a named tool preset. I would also think your script should check to see if a preset by that name already exist not keep adding duplicate named presets.

JJMack

J

jazz-yAuthor

Legend

In a certain situation i want to be able to save in preset previous brush and tool settings (which were before the activation of the new preset). To do this, I get the CurrentToolOptions through events at the time of drawing on the canvas and store that descriptor until a new preset is selected on the panel.

JJMack

Community Expert

I still do not understand how the script will know which of the descriptors you have stored to use to able to set current tool and its setting so you can create a new current tool preset and name it uniquely. The action manager code you poste seems to be for the a "toolPreset" for the "currentToolOptions".

JJMack

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