Localized Presets/Actions folder?

[DBarranca]

Hi,

what is the Actions folder equivalent to this (localized Scripts):

var scriptsPath = app.path + "/" + localize("$$$/ScriptingSupport/InstalledScripts=Presets/Scripts");

Thank you,

Davide Barranca

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This seems work to for me.

var actionsPath = app.path + "/" + localize("$$$/ScriptingSupport/InstalledActions=Presets/Actions");  
Folder(actionsPath).execute();

[DBarranca]

Great, thank you.

May I ask where you've gotten that from? I've parsed the whole zstring collection without being able to find it.

Thanks

-Davide

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It just seemed logical so I tried it and it worked lucky?

[DBarranca]

Actually I doubted that "ScriptingSupport" would have worked (what have Actions to do with Scripting?) but nowadays sheer luck is just fine for me, thanks

Best,

-Davide

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When you think about it there should be some zstrings as there were something simular in the MXI specifications.

$photoshopappfolder Specifies the installation folder

$pluginsfolder Specifies the top level of the Plug-ins folder

$presetsfolder Specifies the top level of the Presets folder

$scripts Specifies the Scripts folder

$actions Specifies the Actions folder

$brushes Specifies the Brushes folder

$matlab Specifies the MATLAB folder

[DBarranca]

Correct, there should be. Yet, for instance, ExtendScript Folder tokens don't exactly match MXI ones, and probably localized zstrings are different too.

I would personally not expect this level of coherence.

Alas...

-Davide

[xbytor2]

For those who don't know how to find zstrings, here's a quick primer:

This command line gets zstrings from the PS executable.

$ strings Photoshop.exe | grep '\$\$\$\/' | sort > ~/Desktop/zstrings.txt

You can do the same thing with the ScriptingSupport.8li.

The best way to get a more complete set is to install the en_GB locale and get the Locales/en_GB/Support FIles/tw_10428.dat file. Copy it to your

desktop. If your text editor does not support UTF16, you can open the file in ESTK then copy/paste to your preferred editor and save as a plain text

file. Or, you could do this:

iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 tw_10428.dat  tw_10428.txt

to convert it to UTF-8 which text editor seem to tolerate better.

Yet another place to find useful zstrings is to check into Adobe's .jsx files in Presets/Scripts and photoshop*.jsx in the StartupScripts folder.

Hope this helps.

-X

[DBarranca]

Interesting x!

I didn't know about the locale file - yet I've not been able to find it within the Photoshop CC2015.app package - I'm not sure I have the GB locale, though.

Would somebody mind sharing it, or it violates some ©?

Thank you,

Davide

[xbytor2]

If you don't magically get the file, you need to install the locale by changing the language/locale in Creative Cloud and re-installing PS.  Copy the tw_10428.dat file out and switch back to en_US (or en North America).

Google 'how to change locale in photoshop cc 2015'. There are pages that describe how to do this in more detail.