Single History state

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
September 28, 2010
1 reply
740 views

I have a script that runs as the first thing in the action. I'd like to add some code to the script that makes the entire action a single history step instead of the 25+ steps I currently have. Is that simple to do?

Thanks guys!

Actions and scripting

This topic has been closed for replies.

Muppet_Mark-QAl63s

Inspiring

With versions CS4 & CS5 you have the document method suspendHistory() which should allow a single history step with one undo. For versions before that you may be able the set the app.preferences.numberofHistoryStates to 1 but I have NOT tried this myself but Im almost sure you will get the undo functionality should you try this…

A

Anonymous

I'm on CS5 here at work. I should also point out that I know very little about coding. I tried to steal the "one history step" java code from another action that was in the default scripts for photoshop, I think it was the delete all empty layers script. It had code in there I thought I could borrow but It just errored when I dropped it in my script (in the beginning).

ian shook | lead artist | farm | cp |312.243.0044 x 104

M

Michael_L_Hale

Inspiring

If your action calls a script then does other things adding suspendHistory() to the script will only handle the history for the script. The rest of the action will create historystates as normal.

Is there a reason you are using a mix of scripts and actions? If you converted the other steps in your action to script you could then suspendHistory() for the whole thing.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded