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Damon D Bell
Damon D Bell
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June 26, 2018
Question

Determine if Info panel is open

  • June 26, 2018
  • 1 reply
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I am trying to get my script to determine if the info panel is open, but not necessarily visible. I got this piece of AM code from user Supermerlin a few years ago which works great to detect if a panel is visible. However, if the Info panel open in the workspace and docked in a panel group but not visible (another tab selected in the group), then it returns false. I kind of understand what this AM code is doing but I'm not an AM code expert by any stretch. I am wondering if there is another object value from the descriptor the determines if is is "open" but not visible that could be replaced in the code where 'visible' is. I'm not even sure how to get a list of the available object values for a descriptor.

Basically, I want the script to determine if the user has the info panel anywhere in there workspace before the script runs. Then if after the script runs it will close it if it wasn't in their original workspace. Taking a color sample from the script automatically opens the info panel which is why I'm trying to close it, but only if it wasn't opened to start with.

Anyone able to solve this puzzle?

function isInfoVis(){  
var ref = new ActionReference();  
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );   
var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getList (stringIDToTypeID('panelList'));  
for(var a = 1;a<desc.count;a++){  
    var Name = desc.getObjectValue(a).getString (stringIDToTypeID('name'));  
    if(Name == 'Info'){  
        return desc.getObjectValue(a).getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID('visible'));  
        break;  
        }  
    }  
}
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Pedro Cortez Marques
Pedro Cortez Marques
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June 27, 2018

Is this what you want?

desc.getObjectValue(a).getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID('obscured'));
Damon D Bell
Damon D BellAuthor
Known Participant
June 27, 2018

Thanks for the reply. I tried 'obscured' after after I saw your response to my other post yesterday. Just based on the name, it seems that 'obscured' would mean it was open but not active/top in a panel. However, it returns false in all situations for me, at least on Windows CC 2018.  I'm not sure what 'obscured' is actually looking at. Maybe it is depreciated and is from an older Photoshop release?????

Anyway, this code always returns false for me. If you are able to get get it to return true then please let me know what toggles the output.

alert(isInfoObscured());
function isInfoObscured(){   
var ref = new ActionReference();   
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );   
var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getList (stringIDToTypeID('panelList'));   
for(var a = 1;a<desc.count;a++){   
    var Name = desc.getObjectValue(a).getString (stringIDToTypeID('name'));   
    if(Name == 'Info'){   
        return desc.getObjectValue(a).getBoolean(stringIDToTypeID('obscured'));   
        break;   
        }   
    }   
}
Damon D Bell
Damon D BellAuthor
Known Participant
June 30, 2018

You can try this to return the info panel to its original state.

 

var workspace = null;

 

var list = get_prop_value("application", null, "menuBarInfo", "submenu", 7, "submenu", 1, "submenu");

 

for (var i = 0; i < list.count; i++)

    {

    var s = list.getObjectValue(i).getString(stringIDToTypeID("title"));

 

    var n = s.indexOf("&Reset ");

    if (n == 0)

        {

        workspace = s.substr(7);

        break;

        }

    }

 

if (workspace)

    {

    var d = new ActionDescriptor();

    var r = new ActionReference();

    r.putName(stringIDToTypeID("workspace"), workspace);

    d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);

    executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("reset"), d, DialogModes.NO);

    }

see the function get_prop_value() here Re: Modifying Levels Adjustment Layer?

 

P.S.

You can also save the current workspace and in the * .psw file

see in what state

 

palette id = "17" is-closed = "false"

or

palette id = "17" is-closed = "true"

 

is.

 

After, restore the old workspace and delete the temporary.

 

P.S.S.

"obscure" means that the panel is partially covered by another panel.


I tried to use the scripts you provided but I could not make it work correctly... I'm probably doing something wrong.

Is there a way to get the name of the current workspace? I searched for that but I could not find a way to do it. It would be really simple if I could just get the name of the workspace the user starts in. Then I could create a copy of that into a temp workspace for the script to run in. Then when the script is done it would switch back to the original workspace and delete the temp workspace. The issue is that without knowing the workspace the user started in, there is no way to know which one to switch back to.

Also, another complication is that my script is running from a custom HTML panel so I want to ensure that stays open too. If I could just get the name of the current workspace then it would be easy to just leave the workspace untouched and run in a temp workspace.

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