I understand that.  I have developed a few very complex automation panels.  So I'm really concerned that my panels will become unusable in the near future.  I have a lot of homework to do for sure.   ... View more

2 questions - 1. Will UXP still be able to run JSX code similar to CEP?  I know it will run without JSX but wondering if running JSX will still be an option 2. Will JSX scripting itself be phased out entirely?  Not just from the perspective of plugins, but for JSX scripting in general with stand alone scripts.   ... View more

Do you know if UPX will be able to run JSX files/functions.  I was just looking through some of the documentation but so far haven't seen anything referring to JSX.   ... View more

*DaveAitch  Is your computer giving the exact same Assertion Failed! error message that I posted?  If not then it may be a different issue.  In all the testing I have done on many different systems, the Assertion Failed! message happens from 450-500 images on every Windows system. I tested 7 or 8 systems and all did exactly the same thing. If your system is doing something different than the Assertion Failed! error then it may be best to create a new post with better details regarding the error you are getting.  Your reply was pretty vague and didn't provide much detail about the actual error you are having. ... View more

@JeffreyTranberry Running the liquify tool itself 475-500 times within a given Photoshop session causes it.  That is only counting the Liquify steps and not counting anything in between the liquify steps.  I have some scripts that use it as part of the scripts. For troubleshooting, the easiest way to reproduce it is with a 1 step action and batching the action on a folder of more than 500 images.  Here is a link to a video I made showing the issue happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyl6YfpHOBw   ... View more

@JeffreyTranberry    Thanks for the reply. It gives the message from the screenshot. When clicking abort or retry it just gets stuck. I have to use Task Manager to close Photoshop.  So I don't think it generates a crash report. Between myself and a few other users I know, we have tested 7 or 8 PCs and all of them do the same thing. Also for my 2017 iMac, the same test would freeze then entire computer at 250-300 images and require the system to be shut down.  Force quit wouldn't even shut it down.  I have to push the power off button to shut it down on my Mac. For the Mac, there was no error at all.  Just the computer freezing.  An interesting thing is that with the Mac, turning off the Auto Show Home screen setting in the preferences prevents it from happening.  I tried that on Windows but it didn't help.  I only have 1 Mac to test.  I had a couple of people I know run the same test and their Macs did not freeze.  On Windows it appears to be a universal issues to all systems.  On Mac, the issue seems different and only affecting some systems. I'm pretty sure that you can recreate the issue on a Windows system by setting up a 1 step action to run Liquify.  Then just batch process the action with more than 500 images.  For the action, just doing something simple like add +25 on the smile in Liquify should be all that is needed to recreate it. Hope this info helps.  If you need any more information or need me to do any further testing then let me know.  This issue is really important for me so I can do whatever testing you need me to do. ... View more

Thanks!!!! ... View more

Thanks. LOL, I had actually tried 5-9 for that but stopped there and was then trying to figure out how to read into the action descriptor. Did you just use trial and error to test until you found 10 worked? Or are you able to get that information from the action descriptor? ... View more

I already fixed it using the tilde on the keyboard instead of copying and pasting from the spreadsheet. Just thought it was interesting that there are 2 tilde characters. From jsx, .charCodeAt() reports code 8764 from what was in my spreadsheet. That is apparently the "tilde operator" character, not the normal tilde. I have no idea how I got the 8764 character into the spreadsheet in the first place instead of 126.  So, just typing in the file name and all is good ... View more

Thanks. It seems there are 2 different tilde characters. I had done a copy and paste from a spreadsheet I had with file names to use and it didn't work. Anyway, I noticed the tilde character in my post online looked different that the tilde character in your post. I tested by copying and pasting each one in the file name and the one in you post worked and the one in my post didn't. In the file name, they both look identical to the keyboard tilde. ....strange. Sp apparently, my spreadsheet was save with the wrong tilde character. So the bottom line is to just type it in and it will work. ... View more

I had a similar issue which was fixed by resetting the Photoshop preferences. For my case, if I clicked the mouse anywhere outside of the panel then the panel would close. I don't think I had any preferences set that were actually causing it. I think there was just something wrong with the prefs file itself. ... View more

You can record an action to run your jsx script. Then batch process the action. I do it all the time ... View more

Thanks for the code. It works just like you describe. However, I need to be able to set initial parameters and report user modified values in order to implement it as I would like to. I guess it can't be done in CC 2018. For my scripts, I have to make them work in CC 2018, even if that means leaving things out that I'd like to include. They are used by many people and most of them are running CC 2018. I just have to work around any bugs and make it the best I can. ... View more

Agreed, thanks for catching the global variables. No need to make workspace and list global, especially with how common the words are. Here is the final script which works perfectly. I added in a check at the beginning just in case the prior script run was aborted and it couldn't switch the workspace back. There is maybe a way to replace the workspace functions with DOM code. However, I didn't see it in the Adobe docs so I just used script listener code. //attempts to delete the temp workspace if it exists form last script run but is not active (if script was aborted) try{deleteWorkspace ("my temp");} catch(e){} var originalWorkspace=currentWorkspace(); //alerts user if the workspace is set to the temp workspace, for the case the script got aborted on a previous run if (originalWorkspace=="my temp"){alert("The workspace is using a temp workspace form the last time the script was ran. Switch the workspace before running this script again")} else{ makeWorkspace("my temp"); try{     //run main code here     } catch(e){     //error catching code here     } finally{ switchWorkspace(originalWorkspace); deleteWorkspace ("my temp"); } } function currentWorkspace(){ var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( "Prpr" ), stringIDToTypeID( "menuBarInfo" )); ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt")); var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("menuBarInfo")).getList(stringIDToTypeID("submenu")); var list =desc.getObjectValue(7).getList(stringIDToTypeID("submenu")).getObjectValue(1).getList(stringIDToTypeID("submenu")); for (var i = 0; i < list.count; i++){ var find = list.getObjectValue(i).getString(stringIDToTypeID("title")); var find2=find.substring(0,6); if(find2 == "&Reset"){ var workspace = find.substring(7); break;} } return workspace; } function makeWorkspace(name){ var idMk = charIDToTypeID( "Mk  " );     var desc4 = new ActionDescriptor();     var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );         var ref1 = new ActionReference();         var idworkspace = stringIDToTypeID( "workspace" );         ref1.putClass( idworkspace );     desc4.putReference( idnull, ref1 );     var idUsng = charIDToTypeID( "Usng" );         var desc5 = new ActionDescriptor();         var idNm = charIDToTypeID( "Nm  " );         desc5.putString( idNm, name );         var idPlt = charIDToTypeID( "Plt " );         desc5.putBoolean( idPlt, true );         var idkeyboardCustomization = stringIDToTypeID( "keyboardCustomization" );         desc5.putBoolean( idkeyboardCustomization, false );         var idmenuCustomization = stringIDToTypeID( "menuCustomization" );         desc5.putBoolean( idmenuCustomization, false );         var idtoolbarCustomization = stringIDToTypeID( "toolbarCustomization" );         desc5.putBoolean( idtoolbarCustomization, false );         var idreplace = stringIDToTypeID( "replace" );         desc5.putBoolean( idreplace, false );     var idworkspace = stringIDToTypeID( "workspace" );     desc4.putObject( idUsng, idworkspace, desc5 ); executeAction( idMk, desc4, DialogModes.NO ); } function switchWorkspace(name){ var idslct = charIDToTypeID( "slct" );     var desc7 = new ActionDescriptor();     var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );         var ref2 = new ActionReference();         var idworkspace = stringIDToTypeID( "workspace" );         ref2.putName( idworkspace, name );     desc7.putReference( idnull, ref2 );     var idIdnt = charIDToTypeID( "Idnt" );     desc7.putInteger( idIdnt, 5634 );     var iddontRecord = stringIDToTypeID( "dontRecord" );     desc7.putBoolean( iddontRecord, false );     var idforceNotify = stringIDToTypeID( "forceNotify" );     desc7.putBoolean( idforceNotify, true ); executeAction( idslct, desc7, DialogModes.NO ); } function deleteWorkspace(name){ var idDlt = charIDToTypeID( "Dlt " );     var desc13 = new ActionDescriptor();     var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );         var ref3 = new ActionReference();         var idworkspace = stringIDToTypeID( "workspace" );         ref3.putName( idworkspace, name );     desc13.putReference( idnull, ref3 ); executeAction( idDlt, desc13, DialogModes.NO ); } ... View more

The script worked great, except if the workspace had spaces in it, for example "Graphic and Web". In that case it would only return "Graphic".  I modified it so instead of indexing, this version just uses substrings which seems to work for names with spaces in it. alert(currentWorkspace()); function currentWorkspace(){ var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( "Prpr" ), stringIDToTypeID( "menuBarInfo" )); ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt")); var desc = executeActionGet(ref).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("menuBarInfo")).getList(stringIDToTypeID("submenu")); list =desc.getObjectValue(7).getList(stringIDToTypeID("submenu")).getObjectValue(1).getList(stringIDToTypeID("submenu")); for (var i = 0; i < list.count; i++){ var find = list.getObjectValue(i).getString(stringIDToTypeID("title")); var find2=find.substring(0,6); if(find2 == "&Reset"){ workspace = find.substring(7); break;} } return workspace; }; ... View more

Thanks!  I spent the better part of a day trying to figure that out. ... View more

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. ... View more

Thanks, I'll dig into it tomorrow. ... View more

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;           }       }   } ... View more

OK, so I found it in on a post in another website. Works great. app.runMenuItem (stringIDToTypeID ("toggleInfoPalette")); ... View more

Awesome, I would really like to see how to do it if you ever write the code for it. I gave up on it because I couldn't figure it out myself. I would really like to be able to do it if there was a way. ... View more