How change Photoshop Preferences by script (Resize Image During Place)

For completeness, this can also be recorded via scriptinglistener plugin (sample below in a function) or even recorded into an action and converted to script using xtools, so we are blessed with multiple options!

skipTransformPlace(false); // or true

function skipTransformPlace(skipTransformSOFromLibrary) {
	var s2t = function (s) {
		return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
	};
	var descriptor = new ActionDescriptor();
	var descriptor2 = new ActionDescriptor();
	var reference = new ActionReference();
	reference.putProperty( s2t( "property" ), s2t( "generalPreferences" ));
	reference.putEnumerated( s2t( "application" ), s2t( "ordinal" ), s2t( "targetEnum" ));
	descriptor.putReference( s2t( "null" ), reference );
	descriptor2.putBoolean( s2t( "extensionsOn" ), true );
	descriptor2.putBoolean( s2t( "skipTransformSOFromLibrary" ), skipTransformSOFromLibrary );
	descriptor2.putBoolean( s2t( "modernFreeTransform" ), true );
	descriptor.putObject( s2t( "to" ), s2t( "generalPreferences" ), descriptor2 );
	executeAction(s2t( "set" ), descriptor, DialogModes.NO);
}

Even if you set  the Preference  to not resize during Place. Place will scale the smart object if the Image File's resolution is not the same as the document the image is being placed into.   So the  the smart object layer image size will not be the same as the Image files the smart object will be scaled.  So when your script Place in an image if resize during place scaled the smart object to fit on canvas after you place the image  you can do a  resize layer to 100%  the layer size will be the size  that Place scale the image file  to. And you can get its bounds and do the resize you want to do.  If the are trying the get the size of the actual place in file image size  you need to set the document resolution to the same resolution the Image file has. Place will boe the scale the object tor the layer.  In all cases Photoshop created the hardened smart Object pixels the sane as Image Files pixels.    Place will always scale the object for the layer if the resolution do not match

sTT =  stringIDToTypeID;

(ref = new ActionReference()).putProperty(sTT('property'), gP = sTT('generalPreferences'))
ref.putClass(sTT('application')); (dsc1 = new ActionDescriptor()).putReference(sTT('null'), ref);
(dsc2 = new ActionDescriptor()).putBoolean(sTT('resizePastePlace'), false)
dsc1.putObject(sTT('to'), gP, dsc2), executeAction(sTT('set'), dsc1);