UI Script Remember Last User Value Entered

[Polycontrast]

The UI has 4 radio buttons and 4 editable text input fields. The editable fields have a default value "Edit Text". The objective is that the user enters a custom value in the text input field and runs the script.  

1)  Can a jsx script remember the last text input value used so that the next time the UI dialog runs the value appears in the text input field?

2) Allow the user to reset the dialog text input field to the default value.

3) What are the jsx functions that allow this behavior?

The idea is:

if the text input value is not equal to the default value,

the new text input value becomes a temporary variable,

the temporary variable becomes the default text input value,

then the user clears the temporary variable,

if the temporary variable is empty,

the script returns to the default text input value

[Kukurykus]

Play with putCustomOptions(), getCustomOptions() and eraseCustomOptions().

[Polycontrast]

Thank you for providing the functions. Can the getCustomOptions() get the name of an action Set and action from the Actions Pallet?

[jazz-y]

Look at the scripts that come with Photoshop. Getting list of actions is well written in the image processor.jsx

[Polycontrast]

Thank you for the suggestion. I looked at the imageprocessor.jsx and had a difficult time making sense of the long script. Are there any simple examples of how to display the action set and actions in a dialog UI window?   

[Kukurykus]

No it can't. But it can remember last user value entered (optionally when Photoshop is relaunched).

[ajabon grinsmith]

This will remain even if you restart InDesign.

//save
app.insertLabel("foo", myString);
//load
var myString = app.extractLabel("foo");

[Polycontrast]

Thank you will try in Photoshop.

[ajabon grinsmith]

I'm very sorry, I mistaken for InDesign because I had multiple windows open.
I don't think there is any other function that can hold the value even after restarting the application. It may be necessary to read / write to a text file with invisible attributes.

By the way, to get the action set and the action name surely, the description by the action descriptor obtained by ScriptListener should be indispensable.

[Kukurykus]

Yes, there is such function that holds data after relaunching Ps. It's that I mentioned in this thread.

[Kukurykus]

That's the same that customOptions does in Photoshop.

[LG ludwig]

Hello Kukurykus,

I have a similar question. I'm entering a value manually in the Median filter with DisplayAllDialog True: lets say 12. Then I accept this value. The second time around i want to repeat this action with the same value entered by the user but this time with DisplayNoDialog. How would one query the last entered value with descriptors? I'm doing this in Python but a js equivalent would help me figure this out.

def apply_median(median_value, open_dialog=False):
    action_name = apply_median.__name__
    action_manager = ActionManager(action_name)
    with action_manager as am:
        s2t = am.convert_id
        app = Dispatch("Photoshop.Application")
        desc_13 = am.gen('descriptor', 'desc_13')
        dialog = None
        if open_dialog:
            dialog = am.dialog_mode_all
        else:
            dialog = am.dialog_mode
        desc_13.PutUnitDouble(s2t('radius'), s2t('pixelUnit'), median_value)
        app.ExecuteAction(s2t('median'), desc_13, dialog)
    print(f'{action_name=} executed')

[Kukurykus]

executeAction(stringIDToTypeID('median'))

[jazz-y]

//input variables
var settingsNameUniqueString = 'your script name',
text1 = 'sample text 1',
text2 = 'sample text 2',
text3 = 'sample text 3'

//saving settings
var d = new ActionDescriptor
d.putString (s2t('t1'), text1)
d.putString (s2t('t2'), text2)
d.putString (s2t('t3'), text3)
app.putCustomOptions (settingsNameUniqueString, d)

//reading settings
var d = app.getCustomOptions (settingsNameUniqueString)
alert (d.getString (s2t('t1')))
alert (d.getString (s2t('t2')))
alert (d.getString (s2t('t3')))

function s2t(s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s) }

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, I'm not sure if the file info part of Photoshop is a JSX found somewhere, but they implemented the same function recently.

[Lumigraphics]

I do this by saving an XML file with settings, that way I can store whatever I want. Defaults are hard-coded.