OK, I now understand what you are referring to.  I was just thinking generic spreadsheet type data importing.  You are referring to the Photoshop image data sets and variables.  I have never scripted those but it's probably pretty simple to do. I just did a quick test and exported a data set.  This was recorded by the Script Listener plugin. Therefore, it should be possible to at least do it that way.  It may be possible through the DOM as well, not sure.  However, the script listener combined with some other coding to select the right data set names would be a quick and dirty method to accomplish it.  You may be able to do the batch processing with Image Processor and using an action.  The action could be recorded to run any needed scripts.  I do a lot of processing with action and run small scripts in an action set when it needs to use some logic. Anyway, I'm not in the UK.  Hopefully you can find someone in the UK to work with.  If not, I may be able to help you from across the Atlantic.  However, I am booked for at least the next week or so.  I'm still working to get all of my programs aligned to the new CC 2015.1 changes. ... View more

This script will open a file dialog to import a csv.  It will then put it into a 2 dimensional array. var csvFile = File.openDialog("Open CSV File","comma-delimited(*.csv):*.csv;");  textArray=[]; csvToArray(csvFile,textArray); function csvToArray(file,array){ var i=0; file.open('r') ; while (!file.eof){ array=file.readln().split(','); i++; } file.close(); } ... View more

Specifically, what do you want the Photoshop script to do with the data after it's been imported? I have created many scripts that  import csv file data and that is easy to do. I'm sure other file types would be easy to import as well but I've just always used plain old csv files.  ... View more

I'm referring to a dropdown list for a jsx script. This is the same menu item type that is used in the Image Processor script for the action sets and actions dropdown lists. To see if the problem was only my scripts or I tested the Image processor script. I created actions and sets with really long names and opened Image Processor. Image processor did the same thing. The action Sets dropdown expands and pushes the UI width out. However, after selecting an action set, the actions dropdown does not expand when it populates with the long action names. Based on my testing, I figured out it was not my scripts causing the issue. ... View more

Thanks so much.  This makes my life way easier now. ... View more

Thanks for the update Jeff! I just got a chance to update to 2015.1. The .location works perfectly 🙂 Also, I love the new CC2015.1 scripting window design. It looks really sharp. Just FYI for anyone needing to do this, if you are using .frameLocation then you'll need to change it to .location. I just realized that one of my windows was using .frameLocation instead of .location. That window was still centering. I switched that one to .location which fixed it. Maybe the difference between the 2 values is the window border width or something, not sure????? In any case, .location works perfectly so all is good. ... View more

Thanks!  I'll look into that.  I've just been looking at the scripting guides and I think they are missing a lot of information. ... View more

Thanks Mikaeru, That worked to close the Info tab but the popout window stayed open with the Properties tab.  I seems like the popout window typically has both the Info and Properties tabs together.  Following the same logic, I told it to close both and then the popout window closed as well which is what I want.  Just curious,  is this documented anywhere in Adobe's documentation?  I search but could not find this.  Is there some additional documention that I don't know about?  If so, I'd really like to get a copy. app.runMenuItem (stringIDToTypeID ("closeInfoPanel")); app.runMenuItem (stringIDToTypeID ("closePropertiesPanel")); ... View more

I don't like working with points.............it's not intuitive.  I guess it has a purpose in printing but for everyday editing as well as scripting it's just a nuisance. ... View more

Thanks for the clarification about having to use points from 2014 on.  That is good to know.  I always use the character panel myself for sizing text, changing the aspect ratio, etc.  However, the script has quite a few users.  Some of those users are buying PSD templates and they want to use the script to replace text in the templates. I have no control of what people are feeding into the script and how the text was sized or transformed before the script sees it.  I was hoping to make something that worked regardless of how the text was already sized.  However, it's to complex for me to deal with all of the possible situations and how different PS versions and OS version handle it.  I'll just need to train people to modify their templates by recreating the text layers and not transforming or re-sizing the image. What I may look into doing is having the script determine if the text has been transformed prior.  If so, it could just alert them with a warning message.  I think that may be possible??????   I'll need to look into it some more. ... View more

Thanks for the code.  Honestly, this is getting too complicated for me for the auto text resizing.  I decided that all I want to do is have the script replace the text content (replace characters only).  Is there a simple way to ensure that the text does not get resized and just have the script replace the text characters only?  I thought the modified script listener code that i have did that but it still has issues resizing for certain layers. I find it difficult to believe that Adobe has left a bug like this in place that has spanned so many versions of Photoshop.  Surely they must know about this issue by now??????? ... View more

Thanks for the response.  I'm thinking that the issues that you were having are possibly from the same root issue/bug.  For my script, there is know way of knowing what the font size needs to be.  The script is a text content replacement script that reads a csv file, matches the image file name, and replaces the text contents based on the csv fields.  The users will have text that varies in size.  The script does not change the font or any text parameters. It just replaces the text contents.  I was finally able to use the script listener and modify it so it doesn't resize the text. The script listener outputs 445 code lines when just replacing the text characters.  I chopped off all of the unneeded stuff and got it to 16 lines so it only replaces the text contents.  This seems to work without resizing the text. The second option I want the script to have is an auto text resizing.  Basically, the script would be used to auto size the text based on the character length. Since the text size is unknown, the resizing would need to do some math and resize based on a percentage of the current text size. However, the issue is that when an image was resized after the text layer was created the DOM returns back the original text size prior to the the image resizing instead of the new text size after the image resizing.  I can't find any way to return the actual current text size.  Without that information there is no way to resize the text appropriately.  Here is the modified script listener code that seems to replace text without resizing it.  This seems to work even when the text size is returning incorrectly in the DOM.  This would at lest accomplish the first goal of just replacing the text contents without the danger of it resizing. function replaceText(newText){ var idsetd = charIDToTypeID( "setd" );     var desc96 = new ActionDescriptor();     var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );         var ref26 = new ActionReference();         var idTxLr = charIDToTypeID( "TxLr" );         var idOrdn = charIDToTypeID( "Ordn" );         var idTrgt = charIDToTypeID( "Trgt" );         ref26.putEnumerated( idTxLr, idOrdn, idTrgt );     desc96.putReference( idnull, ref26 );     var idT = charIDToTypeID( "T   " );         var desc97 = new ActionDescriptor();         var idTxt = charIDToTypeID( "Txt " );         desc97.putString( idTxt, newText );     var idTxLr = charIDToTypeID( "TxLr" );     desc96.putObject( idT, idTxLr, desc97 ); executeAction( idsetd, desc96, DialogModes.NO ); } ... View more

Just curious, has anyone heard anything from Adobe on if/when there may be a new release with bug fixes for the strange dialog issues that everyone is experiencing? My Photoshop version shows as 2015.0.0 20150529.r.88 2015/05/29.  The Creative Cloud update shows nothing available.  Is 5/29 really the last updated version or is my Creative Cloud updater not working properly?  This seems like a long time between updates for a new release so I thought I'd check to make sure that r.88 is really the last release. ... View more

Thanks for the info.  That is where I went.  As you mentioned there is no bug form when Photoshop is selected from the dropdown.  There is just a link to feedback.photoshop.com so I went there and added the info feedback.  I'm not sure if anyone from Adobe will actually look at it or if it's just a black hole. ... View more

I already added it to the main forum posting for CC2015 bugs.  I also submitted a bug ticket at photoshop.com.  Is that the correct place to notify Adobe or is there somewhere else that I am suppose to report it to them? ... View more

Prior to CC2015, my scripts would place the window off center so that it isn't right over top of the image.  The scripts do this using window.frameLocation[x,y]. This command is done right before window.show().  With the CC2015 release, window.show() centers the window and disregards the given frame location.  I tested in CC2015 and found that window.frameLocation[x,y] works to move the window after it has been drawn.  I just want to automate it to do that. I reported this as a bug.  However, I'm thinking that it may an intended change to CC2015 and not a bug, in which case I was hoping for a work around. ... View more

My apologies, I should have just asked the specific question that I was looking for an answer. Yes, I posted this bug within the pile of other stuff that isn't working and I also submitted a bug report.  However, I had a different specific question that was buried in this posting.  I basically want to know if there is a way to automatically run some code after a window is drawn.  I should have just submitted that specific question instead of giving the reason that I am wanting to do this.  Therefore, I resubmitted that exact question to the forum is not buried inside this posting. ... View more

For sure, this issue is not fixed.  I have a script that was doing the exact same thing.  However, in my case it would always end with a delayed PS crash as well.  I had windows 1/2/3.  Window 1 is the main dialog.  Window 2 was another dialog that opens from window 1.  Window 3 was a dialog launched from window 2.  Window 2 should close when window 3 is launched from window 2 (works with CS3-CC2014 just fine).  For CC2015, windows 2 and 3 will stay open until window 3 is closed.  All would seem fine after windows 2 and 3 are closed until window 1 is eventually closed.  When window 1 is eventually closed, PS then crashes. The work around that I came up with was both windows 2 and 3 now launch directly from a different button on window 1.  The user needs to close window 2 or 3 before they can access the other.  Now everything works fine, although it is not the layout that I want. I didn't submit the bug reports because I saw it was already submitted.  If it doesn't get resolved then I'll submit a redundant ticket. ... View more

Chuck, do you know what happens to the perpetual license in this case when it gets converted to a CC activation?  I had one computer that I cancelled CC on and it would not allow my CS6 perpetual license to run at all, even after re-installing using the original DVD.  I had to work with Adobe support for a week to fix it. I have another computer that had a CS6 perpetual license but it got swallowed up by the CC license as well. It does this automatically when CC is installed.  It just converts the installed CS6 perpetual license to a subscription without telling you or asking you.  I can't deactivate the original CS6 perpetual license.  It allows me to sign out from CS6 which also signs out from CC.  This is an old computer and I want to both sign out of CC AND deactivate CS6 license.  I don't want the CS6 license to be using one of it's 2 activations on a computer that isn't being used. Basically, will the CS6 license still have 1 activation being used up because it doesn't allow me to deactivate this?  Last time around, I could not get a very clear answer to this when I talked to support.  They only have online chat support for perpetual licenses now. There is no phone support for perpetual licenses anymore which is a bit frustrating. ... View more

I'm pretty sure that you will need to contact Adobe support.  I had a similar issue when I discontinued my CC license a while back.  My CS6 stopped working because the CC  had converted my activated perpetual CS6 license to a subscription without asking me to.  It took several re-installations and hours of oversees tech support to get it working.  It was a major pain.  If I remember correctly, the tech support person had to login and run a special program to release the "subscription" from CS6. ... View more