Here is an example of getting some details of an open document and putting the results in an Excel worksheet.
It also shows how to run JavaScript from within C# and how to show messages.
It's very basic but should get you started.
To get started you can dowload the FREE version of Microsoft® Visual C# :-
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/
Create a new Console Application and paste in the following code..
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using ps = Photoshop;
namespace PSexample
{
public class PSdata
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
ps.ApplicationClass app = new ps.ApplicationClass();
app.Preferences.RulerUnits = ps.PsUnits.psPixels;
ps.Documents doc_arr = app.Documents;
if (app.Documents.Count == 0) return;
double Width = app.ActiveDocument.Width;
double Height = app.ActiveDocument.Height;
double PixelCount = Width * Height;
app.DoJavaScript("alert('Message from within Photoshop\\nTotal Pixels " + PixelCount + " ');", null, null);
int mess = app.ActiveDocument.Layers.Count;
MessageBox.Show("Document Name = "+app.ActiveDocument.Name, "PS Example");
MessageBox.Show("This document has "+Convert.ToString(mess)+ " layers","PS Example");
Excel.Application app2 = new Excel.ApplicationClass();
app2.Visible = true; //change to false when tested
var excelWorkbook = app2.Workbooks.Add(VarEnum.VT_NULL);
app2.ActiveCell.set_Value(Excel.XlRangeValueDataType.xlRangeValueDefault, " ");
app2.Cells[1, 1] = app.ActiveDocument.Path;
app2.Cells[1, 2] = app.ActiveDocument.Name;
app2.Cells[1, 3] = Width;
app2.Cells[1, 4] = Height;
app2.Cells[1, 5] = app.ActiveDocument.Layers.Count;
}
}
}
You now need to add a couple of COM references one for Photoshop and one for Excel.
On the menu bar select Project - Add Reference -Select The COM tab
Now select the COM object..
Adobe Photoshop CS# Object Libary //CS# depends on what version of Photoshop you want to use (This is the API)
Microsoft Excel 12.0 Object Library // The Number may be different depending on your version of Excel
Now select .NET tab and select
System.Windows.Forms
With a document open in the CORRECT version of Photoshop you can run the script from C# by pressing the F5 function key.
Hope this helps.
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