How to save input values from text box?

[smithcgl9043167]

I searched here and saw a good example using customOptions.

Why does not my Photoshop recognize this string?

("77F66FF5-EFAD-49B7-AFE3-8A1403376CB8")

How to find, get and validate these string so that it works perfectly?

I saw something here but it did not work in any key I generated.

uuidgen

Here is a small dialog box with two text boxes that I need to save the values whenever I need to open the window.

dlg = new Window("dialog", "new project", [0, 0, 255, 100], {resizeable: true});
text01 = dlg.add("edittext", {x: 26, y: 26, width: 48, height: 20}, "");
text02 = dlg.add("edittext", {x: 86, y: 26, width: 48, height: 20}, "");
var desc = app.getCustomOptions("77F66FF5-EFAD-49B7-AFE3-8A1403376CB8");
text01.text = desc.getString(0); button = dlg.add("button", [162, 26, 232, 46], "Ok");

button.onClick = function() {
	var desc = new ActionDescriptor(); 
	desc.putString(0, text01.text); 
	app.putCustomOptions("77F66FF5-EFAD-49B7-AFE3-8A1403376CB8", desc, true); 
}

dlg.center();
dlg.show();

Can anyone explain to me how this method works?

[r-bin · Accepted solution]

var desc = null; 
try { desc = app.getCustomOptions("77F66FF5-EFAD-49B7-AFE3-8A1403376CB8"); } catch (e) {}; 
if (desc) text01.text = desc.getString(0); 

[smithcgl9043167]

Thank you r-bi.

It worked very well. Just a question. To add in other text boxes, do I have to have other individual character keys for each?

[r-bin]

In this way

var desc = null;  
try { desc = app.getCustomOptions("77F66FF5-EFAD-49B7-AFE3-8A1403376CB8"); } catch (e) {};   
if (desc) 
    {
    text01.text = desc.getString(0);   
    text02.text = desc.getString(1);   
    text03.text = desc.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("width"));   
    }
...................
...................  
        var desc = new ActionDescriptor();    
        desc.putString(0, text01.text);    
        desc.putString(1, text02.text);    
        desc.putDouble(stringIDToTypeID("width"), Number(text03.text));    
        app.putCustomOptions("77F66FF5-EFAD-49B7-AFE3-8A1403376CB8", desc, true);    

[smithcgl9043167]

Thanks again! You are the greatest of all time.

[Kukurykus]

How to check custom option exists without try...catch statement?

Is there some ActionDescriptor key for?

Personally I found in 'C:\Users\Marek\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Adobe Photoshop CS6 Settings\Adobe Photoshop X64 CS6 Prefs.psp'

they are stored at the moment of quitting Photoshop, I mean their name after:

5d9bdc30-d980-4d66-92b8-3fdb0eb270c5

What is interesting when I did:

typeIDToStringID(getCustomOptions('5d9bdc30-d980-4d66-92b8-3fdb0eb270c5').getKey(0))

it showed me: 'javaScriptMessage'

The same you can find in the ScriptListenerJS.log code after running some script from File / Scripts:

(dsc = new ActionDescriptor()).putString(stringIDToTypeID('javaScriptName'), 'someItem')
dsc.putString(stringIDToTypeID('javaScriptMessage'), '''undefined''')
executeAction(stringIDToTypeID('AdobeScriptAutomation Scripts'), dsc, DialogModes.NO)

[jazz-y]

I tried this code in several ways, but still did not understand how to check custom option exists in my scripts 😞

(dsc = new ActionDescriptor()).putString(stringIDToTypeID('javaScriptName'), 'someItem')
dsc.putString(stringIDToTypeID('javaScriptMessage'), '''undefined''')
executeAction(stringIDToTypeID('AdobeScriptAutomation Scripts'), dsc, DialogModes.NO)

This code simply runs the script, regardless of whether the settings were saved or not (the main thing is that the script is installed)

[Kukurykus]

I mentioned about this code only because this is only one where I found 'javaScriptMessage' string, but probably it's unrelated to the same string (wrote as posted 'number'). How custom options work you can find in several threads on this forum. My question is how to check by only ActionManager some custom option exists, or the length of them (eventually the key for is avialable).

Everything to get rid of try...catch statement. For example you can do the same to check if some file exists in file system, or if the background layer exists in document.

Normally such things people were doing by try...catch, but these days we know there is AM method for it too, similar one I'd like to get to know for custom options.

[jazz-y]

@Kukurykus,i understand that this is not the best way, but what if you look for the header in the .psp file?

For example

(f = new File (app.preferencesFolder + '/Adobe Photoshop 2020 Prefs.psp')).open('r')
var s = f.read()
if (s.indexOf ('script name') !=-1)  alert ('here we go')

at the same time, if the settings name starts with a digit, then it will be preceded by

'atdt%\x00\x00\x00'

if the settings name begins with a letter, then it will be in front of it

'atdt\x0E\x00\x00\x00'

those,

if (s.indexOf ('atdt%\x00\x00\x00' + '3338481a-9241-4c33-956e-4088f660e936') !=-1)  alert ('here we go')
if (s.indexOf ('atdt\x0E\x00\x00\x00'+ 'TestSettings') !=-1)  alert ('here we go')

[Kukurykus]

Yes, that's something I found after my post myself shortly too. But in this case it's better to use still try...catch statement, however it won't list you all taken custom options. The other problem is this preferences file is resaving after quitting Photoshop, so that's good method only at launching Ps.

Later there came to me new, more interesting question about it. Where are stored all descriptors data (set as permanent by custom options) after quitting Ps. As you know you can retrieve them launching Photoshop again, so I'm curious where are they stored between sessions?

[jazz-y]

In the same file I found the variable names from my scripts. Most likely the values themselves are stored there.

In addition, if you delete this file, then all saved values are lost.

[Kukurykus]

I couldn't find them there. Could you create simple descriptor with some text inside, and show me where (beside custom option name) is everything a descriptor (held by custom option) includes?

Okey I found it, but I have no idea how 3 months ago I could miss other info than CO names 😕