Streamline ScriptingListener code?

[johny_roger]

Hello All

as i'm pretty new to scripting for PS and i haven't found an answer to this. Is there a good resource page (i haven't found) or a tutorial about it?

• Does it make sense or is it even possible to streamline the code generated by the ScriptingListener plugin?

I have the following code and it would be awesome to combine it into one function and get rid of unnecessary code:

function Selecttexures() {
  // Select
  function step1(enabled, withDialog) {
    if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
      return;
    var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
    var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var ref1 = new ActionReference();
    ref1.putName(cTID('Lyr '), "LIGHT FABRIC TEXTURE");
    desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
    desc1.putBoolean(cTID('MkVs'), false);
    var list1 = new ActionList();
    list1.putInteger(43);
    desc1.putList(cTID('LyrI'), list1);
    executeAction(cTID('slct'), desc1, dialogMode);
  };
  // Select Linked Layers
  function step2(enabled, withDialog) {
    if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
      return;
    var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
    var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var ref1 = new ActionReference();
    ref1.putEnumerated(cTID('Lyr '), cTID('Ordn'), cTID('Trgt'));
    desc1.putReference(cTID('null'), ref1);
    executeAction(sTID('selectLinkedLayers'), desc1, dialogMode);
  };
  // Hide
  function step3(enabled, withDialog) {
    if (enabled != undefined && !enabled)
      return;
    var dialogMode = (withDialog ? DialogModes.ALL : DialogModes.NO);
    var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var list1 = new ActionList();
    var ref1 = new ActionReference();
    ref1.putEnumerated(cTID('Lyr '), cTID('Ordn'), cTID('Trgt'));
    list1.putReference(ref1);
    desc1.putList(cTID('null'), list1);
    executeAction(cTID('Hd  '), desc1, dialogMode);
  };
  step1();      // Select
  step2();      // Select Linked Layers
  step3();      // Hide
};

[xbytor2]

If you still have the orginal SL code, you can use xtools\apps\ActionFileFromSLCode.jsx.

[johny_roger]

Thank you xbytor

I will check this script out (did so with some of your other scripts, thanks for that -> very useful).