Scripting New "Rasterize Layer Style" feature of Photoshop CS6

Sometimes the Rasterize Layer Style produces different results than flattening the layer effects: i.e merging with a new empty layer below.

So you might want to verify you get the same results.

One example is if you have a stroke added with the stroke option in the tool options bar and a color overlay in the layer styles dialog.

Are you familiar with ScriptingListener.plugin?

// =======================================================

var idrasterizeLayer = stringIDToTypeID( "rasterizeLayer" );

    var desc5 = new ActionDescriptor();

    var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );

        var ref4 = new ActionReference();

        var idLyr = charIDToTypeID( "Lyr " );

        var idOrdn = charIDToTypeID( "Ordn" );

        var idTrgt = charIDToTypeID( "Trgt" );

        ref4.putEnumerated( idLyr, idOrdn, idTrgt );

    desc5.putReference( idnull, ref4 );

    var idWhat = charIDToTypeID( "What" );

    var idrasterizeItem = stringIDToTypeID( "rasterizeItem" );

    var idlayerStyle = stringIDToTypeID( "layerStyle" );

    desc5.putEnumerated( idWhat, idrasterizeItem, idlayerStyle );

executeAction( idrasterizeLayer, desc5, DialogModes.NO );

Did you try installing the optional Scriptlisener Plug-in to see if it recorded anything.   Though Layer>Rastersize>Layer Style is new you could always accomplish what it does other ways.  Like merging visible layers where one layer is empty.  It just rasterize the layer along with its layer style. In fact if the layer in question was a smart object layer after the "Rasterize Layer Style" operation that is exactly whet you will have a raster layer no longer will it be a smart object layer.

Adobe shortchange scripting in CS6 for example you can not read the usere interpolation Photoshop preference if its set to the new default setting Bicubic Automatic and you can not set it to Bicubic Automatic if you read that it is not set to Bicubic Automatic.  Adobe simply dropped the ball and did not add the nessary update to support CS6 new features to scripting and installing the sicptlistner will turn off a new feature like allowing tool recording.  CS6 is by far the buggest release of Photoshop I ever installed. The list of the Photoshop versions I have installed is

PS3

PS5

PS5.5

PS7

CS

CS2

CS3

CS5

CS6

I use CS3. The money I sent upgrading to CS5 and CS6 so far has been a wast of money... Phehaps Adobe will fix the bugs and not deferr them to some future release like they historically do.