Turning on and off ScriptListener within Photoshop

[Chuck Uebele]

Since many of the old threads have been removed, I thought I'd post these two scripts that Tom Ruark showed me. They turn ScriptListener on and off within Photoshop. These scripts are wonderful, as you don't have to quit Photoshop and restart to run ScriptListener. To use them, put the ScriptListener in the plugin folder and leave them there. Then put these two scripts in the scripts folder. Restart PS and you can then select to turn SL on or off.

This one turns it on:

// Copyright 2012.  Adobe Systems, Incorporated.  All rights reserved.
// The ScriptListener output can be turned on and off without having to uninstall.
// This one turns it on.

// enable double clicking from the Macintosh Finder or the Windows Explorer
#target photoshop

// in case we double clicked the file
app.bringToFront();

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

This one turns it off:

// Copyright 2012.  Adobe Systems, Incorporated.  All rights reserved.
// The ScriptListener output can be turned on and off without having to uninstall.
// This one turns it off.

// enable double clicking from the Macintosh Finder or the Windows Explorer
#target photoshop

// in case we double clicked the file
app.bringToFront();

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

[Kukurykus]

From before which date old threads of Photoshop Scripting were removed, and why?

[Chuck Uebele]

I don't know. Management not thinking correctly.

[Kukurykus]

Maybe one day someone tell us where to find: xmp_sdk

[Maiane Gabriele]

Thank you so much! This will come in hand 😛

[olverart]

Today this is giving me an error, someone knows why? When I try to run the script to turn it on or off it gives me an error:

I already have installed the ScriptListener plugin in the correct folder on Windows, can't find why this is happeninig, I already reset my computer...

[olverart]

Here's the code I'm trying to run to make script listener to work.

var listenerID = stringIDToTypeID("AdobeScriptListener ScriptListener");

var keyLogID = charIDToTypeID('Log ');

var d = new ActionDescriptor;

d.putBoolean(keyLogID, true);

executeAction(listenerID, d, DialogModes.NO);

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

In Win 10, the path that works for me is:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2022\Plug-ins\Scripting Utilities\ScriptListener.8li

[olverart]

Thank Stephen, I already tried this and still having the same issue. Also in properties I gave permissions for anything to the ScriptListener file and still not working :/. 

[olverart]

By the way, I have to mention I'm using Windows 11, I didn't have this issue before with Windows 10

[Chuck Uebele]

Yea, new OS, and all sorts of little issues come up.

[olverart]

This is really bad. I like Windows 11 a lot, but seems I'll have to downgrade.

[jazz-y]

The problem is not with Windows 11. I have this operating system and everything works fine. Recently there was a similar topic ScriptListener not working with Photoshop 2022 on windows 10  where we checked all possible options and also could not find a solution.

[Chuck Uebele]

I will rarely upgrade my OS, unless I get a new computer. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[Chuck Uebele]

@JeffreyTranberry  Do you know what's going on with scriptListener, lately?