Hi, you can grab the most up-to-date version from your Gumroad's account (in the file I have the DOM starts at 60 and ActionManager is 121-189).   I think you can use the current file's path, which you can get with `app.activeDocument.path` as a string.   As for additional content, I've invested the last year working on UXP (see here). Things might seem a bit complicated, but the TL;DR version is as follows: UXP is going to be "the" way to build plugins ("plugin" now is a general term that replaces "panels", "extensions", etc) UXP uses a modern JS engine (Google's V8) and not the ExtendScript engine Alongside with UXP, a brand new Photoshop API is being built (i.e. a new, backward non-compatible DOM) This new Scripting API (based on the modern V8 JS engine) is accessible only within UXP plugins at the moment—it will be available to standalone scripts too, in the future  Outside of the context of UXP plugins, you can still rely on good old ExtendScript, for a number of years.  In this new Photoshop API (which to me is a synonym for Scripting API) the DOM is still a work-in-progress, not yet complete (if you ask me, it won't be for a year or two at least). What do we do when the DOM isn't available in Photoshop? We use ActionManager.  Alas, ActionManager in UXP is now called BatchPlay, and it has a new, JSON-based syntax. Although the structure is the same, and most of the times (i.e. ~90% of the cases) it is possible to transpile ActionManager to BatchPlay with some remarkable exceptions (e.g. when doing stuff like saving files)   Given 1-8, I've decided to allocate most of my time looking forward, to UXP and the new PS API. As a matter of fact, ExtendScript is not going anywhere for a number X of years (where X is known only by Adobe, and maybe still TBD), and the ActionManager chapter in the Pro PS Scripting book still is the only available source of information, quite useful to UXP/BatchPlay devs.   If you want to catch up with the current state of affairs with UXP, the new PS API etc. there's a free video series that I've published on youtube. I plan to write a Pro PS Scripting 2ED (which will be a complete re-write, given the nature of the content), but it won't appear until 2023 I'd say—mostly because the API are still evolving at a fast pace and shooting a moving target is frustrating.   As a side note, I assume you're on Windows, because on recent macOS versions ESTK is bricked, and we can only use VSCode 🙂 Cheers,   —Davide ... View more

Thanks for mentioning it—afaik Professional Photoshop Scripting is the only resource that extensively tackles the AM learning curve (it should be ~60 pages). BTW I've recently (i.e. a couple of days ago) a new course, what's the proper way to advertise it in the new forums without breaking The Rules™, @c.pfaffenbichler? Thanks! ... View more

As far as I remember (but I'm always on a Mac, so I don't know if this holds true on the other side of the fence), the File Info has always been a modal dialog, hence preventing any other user interaction but with the dialog itself. That is to say, you cannot operate Photoshop until it's closed.   I suppose a third-party developer could build a modeless (opposite of modal) UXP plugin showing XMP metadata, either at the File or Layer level. To the best of my knowledge, the XMP support in the new Photoshop API in use with UXP is not yet at the DOM level (in layman terms: it's still unnecessarily harder to get it, compared to how it was with the "old" engine).    TL;DR I'd say it could be done, but it's not something that Photoshop has built-in support for; someone must step in and build it from scratch.   Shameless plug: if anyone is interested in UXP development I'm currently writing a book on it, to be released in the next few months provisionally titled "Adobe UXP plugin development with React.js". In the meantime I've published a free 11 videos/3h playlist on youtube on the subject here.   Davide   ... View more

This is the reason why I wrote, and I keep up-to-date, a book on Photoshop Scripting! Shameless plug aside, PS Scripting has two domains: DOM based, and ActionManager – the latter being a superset of the former, but way less user-friendly. To be fair, PS is 30 years old and over time it has accumulated layers upon layers of different features, and not all of them are perfectly coherent with each other. ... View more

Hi,  I've searched my archives and fished this file – let me know it if works! Just unzip and move it to Photoshop CS6/Presets/Scripts/ Best,   Davide ... View more

Hi guys, and thanks to @Stephen_A_Marsh for the kind words! In my intentions, I wrote the Pro PS Scripting course like the one book I was craving back when I started in early 2000s (as a complete newbie), so it starts very slow and then it builds up to complex topics. I also deal with language and "programming mindset", yet you may want to look at pure JS resources along the way, to familiarize with it. My suggestion would be to get into scripting first, and then look at HTML Panels (not the other way around). I have bundles and sample content for both books – see their websites here and here. I think it is around 100 pages combined, so well enough to get an idea about them. Feel free to get in touch directly if you need further info. Thank you, –Davide ... View more

You may have some luck with: document.body.onbeforeunload = function () { /* ... */ } But be aware that no Photoshop actions can be performed – e.g., you can't alert() something. But it seems to be working for Panel-only stuff, e.g. csInterface.openURLInDefaultBrowser(). Probably it gets called after the Panel has dropped the messaging system with the Host App. Davide www.ps-scripting.com ... View more

This code is perhaps more precise, but it doesn't change the link nonetheless... var r1 = new ActionReference(); var d1 = new ActionDescriptor(); r1.putIndex(s2t('layer'), 1); d1.putReference(s2t('target'), r1) var d2 = new ActionDescriptor() d2.putPath(s2t('link'), new File( "/path/to/whatever/new.jpg" )) d1.putObject(s2t('to'), s2t('smartObject'), d2) executeAction( s2t( "set" ), d1, DialogModes.NO ); And it doesn't return any error. Davide ... View more

JJMack , I've had few bumps in the PR (VSCode not connecting), I still have to test thoroughly the 1.0. I have to say that a growing number of devs are using VSCode, which is quite good – I've switched to it from Atom some time ago and I'm quite pleased. The new plugin lacks the Object Browser, so for that you're out of luck, alas. Also, to date, there is no code completion, unless you install and tweak Pravdomil Types-for-Adobe, which is a TypeScript extension (but you can make it work even if you don't use TS). I've asked for commitment on Adobe's side to implement that part, which IMHO is fundamental, but I've not heard any official statement in this regard. Davide ... View more

r-bin , do you happen to know how to relink on a layer by index? I.e., without making it active. For instance, I have a SO on index 1, I've tried: function s2t(s) { return stringIDToTypeID(s) } var r = new ActionReference(); r.putIndex(s2t('layer'), 1); var d = executeActionGet(r); // Getting the Layer desc. var soDesc = d.getObjectValue(s2t('smartObject')); soDesc.putPath(s2t('link'), new File( "/whatever/new/path/new.jpg" )) var d1 = new ActionDescriptor(); d1.putObject(s2t('to'), s2t('layer'), soDesc) executeAction( s2t( "set" ), d1, DialogModes.NO ); With no luck – also because, while I've got the layer by index, I've not been able to specify the target layer idx. Thanks, Davide ... View more

Hi, I quickly take the chance to inform you that the final version of the book has been released, with a Foreword by none other than Jeffrey Tranberry!  More info here. Thank you! Davide ... View more

In the meantime, I've taught myself some Generator 🙂 I can confirm that there's no setPixmap() – I've logged that as a feature request some time ago: only getPixmap() and getDocumentPixmap(), as sidpalas said. The Adobe Generator section of the Professional Photoshop Scripting book should cover most of what's needed to get anyone started (the chapter, which I'm editing right now, is about 40 pages and counting). Davide ... View more

Try to make it a 'dialog' instead of a 'palette'. It was a known bug. Davide ... View more

All your concerns were the very reason why (A) I've struggled for years trying to wrap my head around Scripting, and (B) I've authored the Professional Photoshop Scripting course 🙂 Best, Davide ... View more

Thanks for the mention, Chuck! I've set up a dedicated website that you can access here, and request sample content as well. I hope the community will enjoy it – it is a work in progress that has already taken me 1.5 years 🙂 Regards to you all, Davide ... View more

Hi Michel, great to see the project on GitHub, and sad to hear you won't actively develop it anymore. Thanks for all the fish     Davide ... View more

Kukurykus  wrote: How do you like my new attempt? ie: system('start http://adobe.com') Is start a Windows thing? If so, it could be: function openURL(url) {   var open = $.os.match(/windows/i) ? 'start' : 'open';   system(open + " " + url); } Davide ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Tom+Ruark  wrote Make sure you add this line: app.notifiersEnabled = true; And try this as well: app.notifiers.add(charIDToTypeID("past"), eventFile, charIDToTypeID("Ofst")) Tom, in which cases should we use the typeID compared to the charID or the stringID? I've found that I can use either 'select' or 'Slct' with no problems, yet I can only use 'Mk  ' and not 'make'. Instead the stringIDToTypeID('make') works as expected – I'm a bit puzzled. Thank you! Davide ... View more

Hi, if I may ask, why are you creating notifiers for all these events, instead of setting one notifier for everything ('All ')? On a Mac (at least mine), it gets quite slow. Thanks! Davide ... View more

I'm not sure it can be done "conditionally" (without restarting the host app), but rather permanently. ... View more

I have been using the old account for years, but this is the one linked to my CC subscription. I'm the twin brother of myself 🙂 ... View more

You may want to look here, for the reason why dark voodoo magic works 🙂 Davide ... View more

I didn't know about emoji! I wonder whether you can add your own font/svg in there as well. Davide ... View more

oliverIntergrafika the problem is setPixmap (which doesn't exist – I've logged a feature request in the past...) Davide ... View more

Quite a steep learning curve 🙂 ... View more