Scripting repetitive tasks

[Desbrina]

I'm trying to script several reptitive tasks as follows

• Select all pixels on layer "BG Colour" and replace with current Foreground colour. Same as if you command+click on the layer. The layer has a 60% opacity if it makes a difference. 
• Select all pixels on layer "Border Colour" and replace with current Foreground colour. Same as if you command+click on the layer.
• Replace all text with specified value (Would be happy with it just bringing up the find/replace dialogue box)

I've worked out how to select the layer and select a specified point, but not all pixels & replace colour

var doc = app.documents[0];
app.activeDocument = doc;
var layers = app.activeDocument.layers;

// Text BG
var layerName = "Text BG";
var myLayer = layers[layerName];
app.activeDocument.activeLayer = myLayer;
makeSelection(224,439,102,7);

// Border Colour

// Selection Function
// x, y, width, height
// x & y position from top left corner of document
// width & height of selection
function makeSelection(x,y,sw,sh){
    app.activeDocument.selection.select([ [x,y], [x,y+sh], [x+sw,y+sh], [x+sw,y] ]);
}

[Earth Oliver]

If you're just selecting pixels on a named transparent layer, can't you simply record an action for that?

[Desbrina]

I've tried that but for 1&2 but when i run the action nothing happens

[jefbr · Accepted solution]

You could use the scriptlistener plugin (if you don't know it... google it, it's really useful)

Get the output in the log files to get the content-aware code.

I'm not sure entirely sure the opacity makes a difference for content-aware fill, if you experiment with it and find out, do let us know! 😉

Because it's monday...

Here's a working -monday morning, not the cleanest code- implementation of content-aware fill only.

            /**Content Aware Fill from scriptlistener code
             * @Param {boolean} color Adapt colors to local environment?
             * @Param {boolean} rotate Orient image gradients?
             * @Param {boolean} scale Match pattern size?
             * @Param {boolean} mirror Flip pattern?
             * @Param {number} opacity Opacity
             * @Param {typeID} blendmode Layer blend mode as typeID... use scriptlistener to illicit more blend modes (look for "Nrml", "Dslv", "Drkn", Lghn, ...)
             */
            function cntAwrFill (color,rotate,scale,mirror,opacity,blendmode){

                var idFl = charIDToTypeID( "Fl  " );
                var idUsng = charIDToTypeID( "Usng" );
                var idFlCn = charIDToTypeID( "FlCn" );
                var idcontentAware = stringIDToTypeID( "contentAware" );
                var idOpct = charIDToTypeID( "Opct" );
                var idPrc = charIDToTypeID( "#Prc" ); 
                var idMd = charIDToTypeID( "Md  " );
                var idBlnM = charIDToTypeID( "BlnM" );
    
                var desc238 = new ActionDescriptor();
                desc238.putEnumerated( idUsng, idFlCn, idcontentAware );
                desc238.putBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( "contentAwareColorAdaptationFill" ), color ); //set
                desc238.putBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( "contentAwareRotateFill" ), rotate );
                desc238.putBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( "contentAwareScaleFill" ), scale );
                desc238.putBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( "contentAwareMirrorFill" ), mirror );
                desc238.putUnitDouble( idOpct, idPrc, opacity ); //Opacity value, can be anything between 0 & 100
                desc238.putEnumerated( idMd, idBlnM, blendmode ); 
                executeAction( idFl, desc238, DialogModes.NO );
    
            }

            cntAwrFill(true,true,true,false,100, charIDToTypeID( "Nrml" ));

 Best of luck to ya!

[Desbrina]

Thanks, while i didn't use this directly the script listener info did help me.

I ended up with

var layerName = "Text BG";
var myLayer = layers[layerName];
app.activeDocument.activeLayer = myLayer;
app.activeDocument.selection.deselect();
fillWithForegroundColour();

// Border Colour
layerName = "Border Colour";
myLayer = layers[layerName];
app.activeDocument.activeLayer = myLayer;
app.activeDocument.selection.deselect();
fillWithForegroundColour();

// Replace Text
// var idfindReplace = stringIDToTypeID( "findReplace" );
executeAction(stringIDToTypeID('findReplace'), undefined)

// Functions

function fillWithForegroundColour() {
	var idfill = stringIDToTypeID( "fill" );
	var desc235 = new ActionDescriptor();
	var idusing = stringIDToTypeID( "using" );
	var idfillContents = stringIDToTypeID( "fillContents" );
	var idforegroundColor = stringIDToTypeID( "foregroundColor" );
	desc235.putEnumerated( idusing, idfillContents, idforegroundColor );
	var idopacity = stringIDToTypeID( "opacity" );
	var idpercentUnit = stringIDToTypeID( "percentUnit" );
	desc235.putUnitDouble( idopacity, idpercentUnit, 100.000000 );
	var idmode = stringIDToTypeID( "mode" );
	var idblendMode = stringIDToTypeID( "blendMode" );
	var idnormal = stringIDToTypeID( "normal" );
	desc235.putEnumerated( idmode, idblendMode, idnormal );
	executeAction( idfill, desc235, DialogModes.NO );
}