Help With HTML Panel

[IanBarber]

Figured it out. 🙂

[Kukurykus]

Repost then your request and share the solution 😉

[IanBarber]

I thought I had fixed this but I havent so I am throwing it out to the experts for some help.

In the html panel, I have a Combo Box. If the user chooses Excel, it open up a MS Excel file and if the user chooses Numbers, it opens up an Apple numbers file. Both of these reside in a subfolder of the extension panel.

I am using csInterface.getSystemPath(SystemPath.EXTENSION) to get the path to the files

I am using csInterface.evalScript to execute the file.

The user is prompted to make sure they want to do this. The prompt is coming from the photoshop.jsx file

HTML (index.html)

<select id="spreadsheet">

  <option value="">Choose Your Spreadsheet</option>

 <option value="Excel">Microsoft Excel</option>

 <option value="Numbers">Apple Numbers</option>

</select>

main.js

$("#spreadsheet").change(function() {

if($(this).val() == "Numbers") { //user chose numbers

csInterface.evalScript('Apple_Numbers()',function(result) { //call function in jsx file and bring back the result

if(result = "yes"){ //user chose yes from the prompt

var extensionRoot = csInterface.getSystemPath(SystemPath.EXTENSION);

var extensionRoot = "" + extensionRoot + "/spreadsheet/"; //path to the file

var myfile="project1.numbers"; // File Name

csInterface.evalScript('File("' + extensionRoot + myfile +'").execute()'); //open the file

}

});

Photoshop.jsx

function Apple_Numbers(){
var result = confirm ("This Will Open Apple Numbers\nAre you Sure?","");
if(result === true){
return result;
}
else if (result === false) {
return result;
}

Problem:

If I select No in the prompt dialog, I am getting False returned back to the main.js file but yet it is is still executing the code

and I cannot see why.

Ian

[IanBarber]

I thought I had fixed this but I havent so I am throwing it out to the experts for some help.

In the html panel, I have a Combo Box. If the user chooses Excel, it open up a MS Excel file and if the user chooses Numbers, it opens up an Apple numbers file. Both of these reside in a subfolder of the extension panel.

I am using csInterface.getSystemPath(SystemPath.EXTENSION) to get the path to the files

I am using csInterface.evalScript to execute the file.

The user is prompted to make sure they want to do this. The prompt is coming from the photoshop.jsx file

HTML (index.html)

<select id="spreadsheet">
  <option value="">Choose Your Spreadsheet</option>
 <option value="Excel">Microsoft Excel</option>
 <option value="Numbers">Apple Numbers</option>
</select>

main.js

$("#spreadsheet").change(function() {
if($(this).val() == "Numbers") { //user chose numbers
csInterface.evalScript('Apple_Numbers()',function(result) { //call function in jsx file and bring back the result
 
if(result = "yes"){ //user chose yes from the prompt
var extensionRoot = csInterface.getSystemPath(SystemPath.EXTENSION);
var extensionRoot = "" + extensionRoot + "/spreadsheet/"; //path to the file
var myfile="project1.numbers"; // File Name
csInterface.evalScript('File("' + extensionRoot + myfile +'").execute()'); //open the file
}
});

photoshop.jsx

function Apple_Numbers(){
var result = confirm ("This Will Open Apple Numbers\nAre you Sure?","");
if(result === true){
return result;
}
else if (result === false) {
return result;
}

Problem:
If I select No in the promp dialog, I am getting False returned back to the main.js file but yet it is is still executing the code
and I cannot see why.

Ian

[r-bin]

I don’t know how programming in extensions works, but
You have at least two errors.

1. if (result = "yes") is always true, because you use the assignment "=" instead of comparing "==". Equivalent to if ("yes").

2. result according to your logic can be either true or false, but not "yes" in any way.

For deguging paste the first command into your function (before if) the code:

alert (result);

[IanBarber]

Adding alert(result);

before the if statement returns false if I choose No on the prompt  the code doesnt run (which is good) but..

if I choose Yes on the prompt the alert gives me true and code does not run either.

[r-bin]

Not understood )

Just try replacing
if (result = "yes")
to
if (result == true)

[IanBarber]

alert(result); <-- returns true

if(result == true){

alert("we are here"); <-- this does not get executed 

[r-bin]

Can not be. Did you restart photoshop after the changes made?

[IanBarber]

I am wondering if this is because I am working in the main.js file for Photoshop panel and it doesnot fully understand regular Javascript.

[r-bin]

I do not know what to say.
Show your full (original) code if you want.
Maybe you made a typo there that you didn’t notice.

[IanBarber]

this is is main.js

$("#spreadsheet").change(function() {
  if($(this).val() == "Numbers") {
     csInterface.evalScript('Apple_Numbers()',function(result) {
     alert(result);

     if(result == true){
      alert("we are here")
     }
   });
  }  					
});			

[r-bin]

Some kind of mysticism.
To understand (I do not deal with extensions) I need all your extension (all files). If you do not mind.
Then I will try to run and figure it out for myself.
Just interesting already.

P.S. And what does the alert show? Can I see a screenshot?

[IanBarber]

I think I have fixed it but dont know why its working this way.

In the photoshop.jsx file I now have this.

I have declared a var as a string and then passed that string to the return

function Apple_Numbers(){
    var result = confirm ("This Will Open Apple Numbers\nAre you Sure?",false,"");
    if(result === true){
        var open_numbers = "yes";
        return open_numbers;
    } 
    else if (result === false) {
        var open_numbers ="no"
        return open_numbers;
    }
    else {
        alert ("Error");
    }

back in main.js it now looks like this

$("#spreadsheet").change(function() {
    if($(this).val() == "Numbers") {
	csInterface.evalScript('Apple_Numbers()',function(result) {
	alert(result); 				
	if(result == "yes"){
	alert("we are here")
	}
   });
  }  					
});		

[r-bin]

The first code is missing a parenthesis.

In what was before - too.