JSX - Open File in Photoshop

[Gotta Dance]

Hi everybody,

I've been working on this for close to a day. I can't get a file to open in Photoshop no matter what I try to do with something thatI would imagine is relatievly straight-forward.

This is the script I'm using in VSCode:

// current file path

var filePath = new File($.fileName).parent;

alert(filePath); // works

var fileRef = filePath + "/PSD/test.psd";

alert("file in question: " +fileRef);

// file in question: "~/Documents/adobe_scripts/PSD/test.psd" 

alert(fileRef.exists); //undefined

var docRef = app.open(filePath);

// end of script

I keep getting 1230 and 1233 argument errors. I've tried to eval, toString, typeOf, trying to figure out why it just won't open...?

This is a basic direct reference to a path/file. Is there something right under my nose that I'm missing? If anybody could provide some insight I'd be thrilled.

Thanks!

-m

[Kukurykus · Accepted solution]

open(File(fileRef))

[Gotta Dance]

Awesome, thank you!

(They should have that on Pg. 29 of the manual instead.) 

[Kukurykus]

I found 2 mistakes in your code:

- you tried to open a path (filePath)

- you used not an path object but string

btw if it solves the problem mark the solution as correct 😉

[Gotta Dance]

Yes, it fixed the problem, thank you.

I thought I might be running into a datatype issue of some kind but it wasn't clear entirely what I was doing wrong. I managed to get an alert to tell me it was a string, so I tried to eval() it hoping it would 'get it'...no dice. 

So I needed to declare the File object by location reference, then pass the reference to the open command which is part of that objects method set. They explain that in the scripting guide, but it's example didn't work, yours did, strange. 

// works

var fileRef = new File($.fileName).parent+ "/PSD/test.psd";

var docRef = open(File(fileRef));

//does not

var fileRef = new File($.fileName).parent+ "/PSD/test.psd";

var docRef = app.open(fileRef);

[Kukurykus]

You simply missed out the File part and parentheses in the manual on said page 29.