Getting started - setting up a dev environement

[dominique.briggs]

Hi,

I'm just getting started with Photoshop scripting. I've been using ExtendScript Toolkit and Adobe Configurator 4 to build a custom panel.

However I don't know how to get my script to interface with the panel I've created with the configurator? Is the panel availble in the DOM tree somewhere (using Javascript)? Is there an class to create the extension panel outside of Adobe Configurator? I can't seem to find it within Script UI documentation. 

Finally can anyone recommend a better dev enviornment setup? Using the ExtendScript Tookit seems a bit cumbersome. Can I download the SDK and use it with IntelliJ for example?

Many thanks! 

[J453]

This may have some useful info:

http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2011/05/connecting-to-photoshop-with-flash-flex-and-air-2.html

[Michael_L_Hale]

Jeff, good to see you here.

I thought as developers we were being encouraged to move from Flash and AIR to HTML5. It is my understanding that SWF and AIR panels will not be supported at some point in the near future.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5692258#5692258

In a post on this forum Tom Ruark made a recent post were I understood that even ScriptUI was going to be replaced with HTML5.

Am I mistaken? Are the supporters of HTML5 just being overly zealous trying to get more supporters?

[J453]

That's a good point.

[dominique.briggs]

Hey thanks for the responses!

Managed to find this blog post after posting here: http://blogs.adobe.com/cssdk/2013/09/introducing-html5-extensions.html

Which led me onto the Eclipse plugin so I'm all setup. Great that there's an interface for HTML5/JS now! Though Adobe could really do with some consolodated documentation on Scripting.

[DBarranca]

Hi Dominique,

as far as I know there's no way to "inject" PS DOM into an IDE to have, say, code completion for Scripting - I wish I could since ESTK is a really poor code editor to work in, imho.

Personally, I use Sublime Text with a custom plugin I've tweaked to Run in PS.

Cheers,

Davide Barranca

www.davidebarranca.com

[dominique.briggs]

Hi Davide,

Great thanks for the plugin! I usually use Sublime Text too so this is a great help

I see now when using Extension Builder 3 one must use csInterface.evalScript('string') to interface with the PS DOM.

Maybe you can help with another post of mine:  http://forums.adobe.com/message/5778334#577833

Not sure how well I've formulated my question in that post.

Cheers,
Dom