Desire Script to send Alert with the foregroundColor.model

[john kw62803249]

I have just a little experience with PS scripts so struggling to make a script what will read the foreground color model that is being used.  Possible color models that are allowed are

RGB

CMYK

GRAYSCALE

LAB

HSB

NONE

As shown in SolidColor:

Having the result show in an Alert would be all I would need.

Thanks in advance for any help

[Stephen Marsh]

For the foreground colour swatch, I think that you will need to look into the solid fill colour options. Sorry I'm not in front of a computer to check or write the code at this moment.

Edit: Setting values is easier than getting values, so you may need AM code rather than regular DOM code.

[jazz-y · Accepted solution]

s2t = stringIDToTypeID;
(r = new ActionReference()).putProperty(s2t('property'), p = s2t('foregroundColor'));
r.putEnumerated(s2t('application'), s2t('ordinal'), s2t('targetEnum'));
alert(typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(r).getObjectType(p)));

* Photoshop updates foregroundColor object only after changing the color. If you switched the color selection mode, but did not change the color itself, the color model will not change.

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

Well, that was easier than I thought!

alert(app.foregroundColor.model.toString().replace(/^.+\./, ""));

@jazz-y – thank you for the tip about the model not updating unless a value is changed, that unknown info would have driven me crazy! 

[john kw62803249]

Thank you @Stephen Marsh Stephen, that works perfect!

Also thanks to @jazz-y as you identified a corner case that could make things very confusing.

Much appreciation to you both!