Simulate button press in script UI

Thanks! I only needed to add "optionWin.update()" inside the while loop to get the onClick to be recognized.

The following is a WORKING timed palette with early exit upon button click.

#target photoshop
app.bringToFront();
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;


// dummy variable
foo = true;


optionWin = new Window('palette');
  optionWin.grpButtons = optionWin.add('group');
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn1 = optionWin.grpButtons.add('button', undefined, 'btn1');
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn1.onClick = function() {
  // change dummy variable
  foo = false;
  };
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn2 = optionWin.grpButtons.add('button', undefined, 'btn2');
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn2.onClick = function() {
  // change dummy variable
  foo = false;
  };
optionWin.center();
optionWin.show();


// keep palette busy (i.e., showing) for 5000ms
var startTime = new Date().getTime();
while ( new Date().getTime() - startTime < 5000 && foo ) {
  optionWin.update();
}


// see if buttons worked
alert(foo);

I created this scaled-down version of the palette to see if I could get it to work. The palette is showing for the desired amount of time, but there are two issues. I'm hoping that there's some simple solutions that I'm not seeing.

1) The buttons aren't changing the value of a dummy variable as I expected them to (this could be due to the way I have set up the timer in a while loop), the sleep function had similar results

2) I was hoping to catch instances when the user clicks one of the buttons that it would escape the timer rather than waiting for the timer to complete

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

#target photoshop
app.bringToFront();
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;


// dummy variable
foo = true;


optionWin = new Window('palette');
  optionWin.grpButtons = optionWin.add('group');
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn1 = optionWin.grpButtons.add('button', undefined, 'btn1');
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn1.onClick = function() {
  // change dummy variable
  foo = false;
  };
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn2 = optionWin.grpButtons.add('button', undefined, 'btn2');
  optionWin.grpButtons.btn2.onClick = function() {
  // change dummy variable
  foo = false;
  };
optionWin.center();
optionWin.show();


// keep palette busy (i.e., showing) for 5000ms
var startTime = new Date().getTime();
while ( new Date().getTime() - startTime < 5000 ) {}


// see if buttons worked
alert(foo);

Use a palette window type. The code would basically do the following.

• Create a palette window.
• Register onClicks for your buttons that save which button was pressed.
• Show the window.
• $.sleep() for however long you want the window to be visible.
• After the sleep is finished, check to see which if any of the buttons were pressed.
• Close the window.
• Continue your script.
  

This may or may not work. It's supposed to but palette window behavior over the years has not always been consistent.

I think that's going to be a hard one to do, as the UI locks things up until it's dismissed. Just out of curiosity, is this something others are going to use or just for your own use? You can always program the script to bypass the UI if conditions are met, like a particular user ID. Even if you got the timer to run, you might have problems dismissing the UI. I had this issue with AS3. It seems there is a security feature that doesn't allow you to program something that is suppose to be user interaction.