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[davidj24046293]

Does Scriptlistener work in PS CC 2017? Yes or No.

If yes. How do I activate it? I've scoured the Adobe website and there is no documentation on this plugin that I can find.

I tried placing it into Adobe's two plugin's folders on my Mac OSX 10.12, restarted the computer etc. and no luck.

Many Thanks - David

[DBarranca · Accepted solution]

I can confirm that ScriptingListener works on CC 2017. You should download the latest (available) version from Adobe, then move the file in the Photoshop CC 2017/Plug-ins/ folder and restart PS.

The ScriptListener.log file should then be saved on your Desktop.

You can switch on/off the ScriptingListener output with this code:

/* OFF */
var listenerID = stringIDToTypeID("AdobeScriptListener ScriptListener");
var keyLogID = charIDToTypeID('Log ');
var d = new ActionDescriptor;
d.putBoolean(keyLogID, false);
executeAction(listenerID, d, DialogModes.NO);
/* ON */
var listenerID = stringIDToTypeID("AdobeScriptListener ScriptListener");
var keyLogID = charIDToTypeID('Log ');
var d = new ActionDescriptor;
d.putBoolean(keyLogID, true);
executeAction(listenerID, d, DialogModes.NO);

Davide Barranca

www.davidebarranca.com

[maxwyss]

A few questions to the ScriptListener On/Off code:

Will the state (on or off) be retained from Photoshop session to session?

I believe to remember that ScriptListener does eat up quite a bit of performance of Photoshop. If turned Off with your code, will it still run and use performance?

Thanks in advance.

[JJMack]

You can control the plugin a bit by controlling the logs files read/write attribute.  Prevent the writing of data.  I use a windows bat file for that. Installed it always on and wants to record steps.

@Echo Off
:loop
CLS
rem Display Log File Size
Dir "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScriptingListenerJS.log" /T:W /4 | find "%ScriptingListenerJS.log"
rem Display Log Attributes  R read only Locked no R log is Unlocked
Attrib "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScriptingListenerJS.log" 
Rem If timeout is use the above display lines will refresh over time else you need to use enter or number
CHOICE /C 123456 /N /T 300 /D 6 /M "Enter:1 to Lock, 2 to Unlock, 3 to Edit, 4 to Clear, 5 To Exit :"
Echo %ERRORLEVEL%
if %ERRORLEVEL%==6 goto timeout
if %ERRORLEVEL%==1 goto one
if %ERRORLEVEL%==2 goto two
if %ERRORLEVEL%==3 goto three
if %ERRORLEVEL%==4 goto four
if %ERRORLEVEL%==5 goto five
goto loop
:timeout
goto loop
:one
Attrib +R "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScriptingListenerJS.log" 
goto loop
:two
Attrib -R "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScriptingListenerJS.log" 
goto loop
:three
        Rem inline command use CMD independate command use start 
CMD /C notepad "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScriptingListenerJS.log" 
rem
Start notepad "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScriptingListenerJS.log" 
goto loop
:four
        Rem If the script log file is unlocked not read only  this echo will clear it 
Echo. > "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScriptingListenerJS.log" 
goto loop
:five
EXIT

[ryan_edwards]

very cool idea

[DBarranca]

Apparently the On/Off is permanent – you can reboot PS and the setting sticks.

I'm not sure about your second question: I would say that, being the logging shut off, the performance impact is negligible – but only an Adobe engineer can reply properly.

Davide

[maxwyss]

Thanks, that does help quite a bit.

I will try it out when the next round of recording comes up, and see how it feels.

[davidj24046293]

Thanks for this Davide. Is there any documentation on Scriptlistener available from Adobe? I have tons of actions. Some I would like to fine tune in Javascript. I thought using scriptlistener would be a great way to do that.

[davidj24046293]

Thanks everyone. I found the documentation I was looking for in Chapter 4 of the "Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Scripting Guide" in case anyone is interested.