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marco mda
marco mda
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May 6, 2015
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How to get Ruler Tool angle measurement

  • May 6, 2015
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Good afternoon all,

I'm struggling to find a way on how to use the angle displayed when tracing a line with the ruler tool.

This is in order to amend a script that now uses as a condition the width of the active layer: if bigger than n px do this, else do that. It just works fine.

I need to do the same but using the angle traced by a user (before running the script).

BUT I cannot find a way to use that angle measure.

Any help please?

Thanks a lot,

MD

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

Does this help?

// 2015, use it at your own risk;


#target photoshop


var ref = new ActionReference();


ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Dcmn"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); 


var docDesc = executeActionGet(ref);


var point = docDesc.getList(stringIDToTypeID("points"));


var p1 = [point.getObjectValue(1).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("x")), point.getObjectValue(1).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("y"))];


var p2 = [point.getObjectValue(2).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("x")), point.getObjectValue(2).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("y"))];


var angle = 360- getAngle (p1, p2);


alert (angle);


////// get an angle, 3:00 being 0˚, 6:00 90˚, etc. //////


function getAngle (pointOne, pointTwo) {


// calculate the triangle sides;


  var width = pointTwo[0] - pointOne[0];


  var height = pointTwo[1] - pointOne[1];


  var sideC = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(width, 2) + Math.pow(height, 2));


// calculate the angles;


  if (width+width > width) {theAngle = Math.asin(height / sideC) * 360 / 2 / Math.PI}


  else {theAngle = 180 - (Math.asin(height / sideC) * 360 / 2 / Math.PI)};


  if (theAngle < 0) {theAngle = (360 + theAngle)};


  return theAngle


  };

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c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 6, 2015

Does this help?

// 2015, use it at your own risk;


#target photoshop


var ref = new ActionReference();


ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Dcmn"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); 


var docDesc = executeActionGet(ref);


var point = docDesc.getList(stringIDToTypeID("points"));


var p1 = [point.getObjectValue(1).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("x")), point.getObjectValue(1).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("y"))];


var p2 = [point.getObjectValue(2).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("x")), point.getObjectValue(2).getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("y"))];


var angle = 360- getAngle (p1, p2);


alert (angle);


////// get an angle, 3:00 being 0˚, 6:00 90˚, etc. //////


function getAngle (pointOne, pointTwo) {


// calculate the triangle sides;


  var width = pointTwo[0] - pointOne[0];


  var height = pointTwo[1] - pointOne[1];


  var sideC = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(width, 2) + Math.pow(height, 2));


// calculate the angles;


  if (width+width > width) {theAngle = Math.asin(height / sideC) * 360 / 2 / Math.PI}


  else {theAngle = 180 - (Math.asin(height / sideC) * 360 / 2 / Math.PI)};


  if (theAngle < 0) {theAngle = (360 + theAngle)};


  return theAngle


  };
    Chuck Uebele
    Community Expert
    Chuck UebeleCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 6, 2015

    Nice, Christoph! I was looking at something like this for a project, but I still have issues with AM code.

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 6, 2015

    Oh, I have issues with that as well …

    But fortunately with past advice from and some code by the usual suspects I can work out some stuff. 

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