Script Color Picker

[mkeatley17]

Is there a way to make the color picker pop up during a script and allow you to choose a color?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

At the very least there is a work-around to set the Foreground Color with an intermediate Solid Color Layer.

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

You can use the system one easy enough with script…

$.colorPicker();

[Tom Ruark]

app.showColorPicker() was added for CS5.

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

As if anybody ever reads the Changes since earlier versions—CS5 changes page… ooops much better thanks

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Good one!

ExtendScript Toolkit’s Object Model Viewer seems to be missing that.

[Tom Ruark]

Yes, missed that in the documentation. Darn it!

I always use the runtime documentation: app.reflect.methods or app.reflect.properties

app could be any object, activeDocument, activeLayer, etc.

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

This is a MUST for us.

Thanks for app.reflect.methods + app.reflect.properties

[Zetta]

yes!  just stumbled onto this post. 

THANKYOU for the reflect.methods and reflect.properties.  

(how did I live without that for so long. )

[Andy_Bat1]

I want to place on the form 2 button to select the color for foreground and background. This function -

app.showColorPicker() - assigns a color only the foreground. How to do so she could assign the same color and the background? Or which function changes colors (by analogy with the X button)

[Michael_L_Hale]

The code below is the same as pressing x to exchange the foreground and background.

var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID('Clr '), charIDToTypeID('Clrs') );
desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref);
executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Exch'), desc, DialogModes.NO );