How to make a Script for press keyboard?

[03KR]

Hi everyone, I have a problem in creating an action  on last filter step for liquify, so is there any way I can emulator ctrl+F with scripts work on photoshop?

Thank!

[Bojan Živković]

I do not understand what exactly you want to ask. Do you run action or script? If you want to press some keyboard shortcut on your own or to do something else while running/playing action then you can:

• turn modal dialogue what is useful for Open command, Place command, some other dialogues to adjust settings
• insert stop then to continue playing action after performing some action manually.

[03KR]

Sorry, i mean is there a way to write a script press ctrls+F?

[Kukurykus]

Save it as lstStp.jsx to Presets / Scripts of your Photoshop folder. Launch Ps and on Actions panel click on last step of your action you want it add after. Then by the same panel menu select 'Insert Menu Item' and choose File / Script / lstStp:

cmmnd = 'CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").SendKeys "^f"';
(vbs = File(Folder.desktop + '/.vbs')).open('w')
vbs.write(cmmnd), vbs.close(), vbs.execute()

[03KR]

Sorry, I tried it but i don't understand why in this action the script only executes for the layer mask of "item"

15itnjc

so i try this action it only executes once

15itqbh

I think it only executes the last step (>scripts) of the action.

is there any way to fix it?

[Kukurykus]

Because that was designed to be put as last step of your action. I'm not sure if that will work in latest CC as comparing it to CS6, Photoshop blocks possibility to apply manual click while the Action is ran, but try to delay your action recording "Setp by Step" from its Panel "Playback Options" before Script Command. Then record it again after Script command to turn it off.

[r-bin]

This works in both CS6 and CC2020 (win7).

function _wait()
    {
    try {
        app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.ERROR;

        var d = new ActionDescriptor();
        d.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("state"), stringIDToTypeID("state"), stringIDToTypeID("redrawComplete"));
        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("wait"), d, DialogModes.ERROR);
        d = null;
        }
    catch (e) { throw(e); }
    }

alert(1);

ctrl_s();

_wait();

alert(2);

The ctrl_s() function sends the combination Ctrl+S.

I do not give the code, as it's just running the compiled AutoIt script.

WinActivate("[CLASS:Photoshop]")
Send("^s")

[Kukurykus]

In CS6 you could use:

runMenuItem(stringIDToTypeID('lastFilter'))

But in CC 2021 default Ctrl & Alt & F remembers Liquify from only previous Photoshop session.

[Jeff Arola]

You can put Ctrl+F (Last Filter) into an action using Insert Menu Item from the Actions panel flyout menu, but it needs to be recorded when there is no last filter to use, like just after youv'e opened photoshop.

[03KR]

I can't do it for Liquify 😞

[Kukurykus]

What Photoshop Release you have that you can check in Help / About'?