Select part of string in edit text

[Ghoulfool]

In photoshop UI using JavaScript: Is this possible?

I've tried using textselection to no avail as that just concatenates the text, I just want to select part of the edittext only.

[Chuck Uebele]

The result of the prompt box should be saved to a variable. So once the user enters the info and clicks OK, you use a string function to split the string to capture what you want, like substr():

JavaScript String substring() Method

Or split():

JavaScript String split() Method

[Ghoulfool]

I'm familiar with substring but how does that relate to the part of the text that's been selected. All I seem to get returned from teh edittext is the whole thing. I just want the part that's been selected (in the case above "bananas").

Can you show me an example?

[Chuck Uebele]

It all depends upon what you want to select. Are you always going to be selecting the word bananas, or will it be the last work, or something else? Depending on what you're trying to isolate dictates what function you will use to get that result. Maybe a search for a certain work, or a split function to get the last word in the string, etc.

[michelr31372089]

This is possible :

[

// MAC Finder or WINDOWS Explorer

#target photoshop

app.bringToFront();

var subject="EditText Selection";

var dlgBox = new Window('dialog',subject);

var selection="";

var editTxt=dlgBox.add('edittext {text:"This is bananas !", justify: "left", active: true}');

// Bouton exécution OK

var buttonOk = dlgBox.add ("button", undefined, "OK");

var buttonCancel = dlgBox.add ("button", undefined, "Cancel");

buttonOk.onClick = function()

{

    selection=editTxt.textselection;

    alert(selection);

}

dlgBox.center();

dlgBox.show();

]

[Tomas Sinkunas]

textselection is broken in CC2017, right?

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi Tomas Sinkunas​,

textselection is not broken in PS 2017.1.1 20170425.r.252

By the way, Clean SL is very nice.

[Tomas Sinkunas]

Weird.

This must be Mac thing then. I'm on same Photoshop version as you are.

I select some text, hit OK (using above example), highlight goes away and it alerts empty string 😕

And thanks for supporting Clean SL buddy. glad you like it.

[pixxxelschubser]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Tomas+Sinkunas  schrieb

Weird.

This must be Mac thing then …

Absolutly possible, I think.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Tomas+Sinkunas  schrieb

… And thanks for supporting Clean SL buddy. glad you like it.

Thank you for developing and sharing. You know the user Kukurykus​? He made a smaller version on ps-scripts.com He found

"I found these charIDToTypeID "Avrg", "BeIn", "BeNu", "BeS6", "BkDi", "BkDp", "BkDs", "BkIb", "BkIc", "BkIr", "BkIs", "BkNa", "BkNm", "BkNt", "BkSb", "BkSt", "Bokh", "BtDi", "BtIs", "BtNt", "GEfc", "GEfk", "GEft", "LqFy", "VnPt" dont' have equivalent stringIDToTypeID. There are probably more of them but fortunately that wasn't needed search for them all to make script working properly if it finds their "buddies"."

And perhaps you see some interesting things in https://www.ps-scripts.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=24469&p=152882#p152882

[Tomas Sinkunas]

Yeap, I saw that code. I tried it - it's didn't work. When it actually worked - I didn't like it, as it worked only with last log. Very limited. So I went and build my stuff.

Anyways, back on topic - yeap, hard to admit, but it's a Mac thing. It also doesn't work on After Effect either.

[pixxxelschubser]

Yes it's limited. And it works only on Windows. But after running this script every CC-Version crashes.

Otherwise - the idea was great in Dec 2016.

[Davide_Barranca]

It got broken (on Mac) in the switch from Flash to Mondo as the PS ScriptUI rendering engine – in other words, it works on CC 2014 and it doesn't from CC 2015 onwards – I'll log a bug on that one.

Davide

[JJMack]

Yes it a Mac thing is works on windows using the cc 2017 ScriptUI.