Well I would just use the scriptlistener code but if you don't want to for some reason you should make a reference to the activeLayer before add the new layer. Then use that reference as the moveAfter argument. The moveAfter method needs a layer object not a layer index. You need the index only because you are trying to supply that layer object by index. layerRef.moveAfter(someLayerRef); Also ( not that it really matters ) when scripting was first added there were several methods for moving a layer, moveAfter() was one of those. Those methods were combined into one method and the old methods are no longer documented in the javascript reference. So below is the documented way to move the layer. layerRef.move(someLayerRef, ElementPlacement.PLACEAFTER); ... View more

That is one reason I don't think there is a good way to close a layerSet. To be clear the code posted does not close the set. It mimics closing by making a new layerSet and moving layers. It should be possible for the script to maintain the set's layer color by getting the current set's color so it can set the color of the new set.. But there are some settings like blend-if settings that  can't be accessed by a script so it can't copy to the new set. ... View more

cbuliarca wrote: The problem is that the entire line is a string... Couldn't you set the font for that control to use a mono spaced font? ... View more

Jeff, good to see you here. I thought as developers we were being encouraged to move from Flash and AIR to HTML5. It is my understanding that SWF and AIR panels will not be supported at some point in the near future. http://forums.adobe.com/message/5692258#5692258 In a post on this forum Tom Ruark made a recent post were I understood that even ScriptUI was going to be replaced with HTML5. Am I mistaken? Are the supporters of HTML5 just being overly zealous trying to get more supporters? ... View more

Seems silly for it not to accept a single channel. I guess that depends on how you look at it. It is named activeClannels not activeChannel. And it doesn't really accept multiple channels either. It accepts one argument which must be an array. It is true the array must have valid channel objects as it elements but it accepts one channel the same way it accepts multiple channels - as elements of the array argument. ... View more

You could also do something like this. var fList = Folder("~/Desktop/TEMP").getFiles( function(f) {           return !f.alias; }); ... View more

Only app.refresh() or the waitForRedraw() routine can make this kind of progress bar work in PS Just to be clear for other readers of this thread. The progressbar updating does seem not to be working in CS6 and app.refresh() does seem to be a workaround. But for other versions of Photoshop the progressbar works without app.refresh(); And I think there is more to what makes 'good programming' ( or scripting ) than speed. If you feel the user needs feedback that the script is still working by using a progressbar then the bar is useful even if it needs app.refresh() to work correctly. The app.refresh() call itself will give feedback the script is still processing. You can always balance the extra time the app.refresh() calls take by updating the bar fewer time. With the example above instead of updating the bar in every pass of the loop only update when i is even. ... View more

You can use either the Photoshop Panel SDK with Flash Builder or the CS-SDK with Extension Builder to create custom panels for CS5. But those are version specific like Configyrator and I think you will have the same problem finding the versions that work with CS5 now. ... View more

What version of Photoshop are you using? In every version I remember the bounds included layer effects if the effect changes bounds. For example a 3px inter stroke effect would not change the bounds but that same size storke set to center or outer would change the bounds. So you should not need to do any extra steps to get the bounds that include the effects. app.activeDocument.activeLayer.bounds will give you the bounds with the effects applied. ... View more

If a layerSet is the activeLayer and you just want to open that one layerSet do something like this. if(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.typename == 'LayerSet' && app.activeDocument.activeLayer.layers.length>0) app.activeDocument.activeLayer = app.activeDocument.activeLayer.layers[0]; ... View more

I am not sure what you want to do. Normally selecting a layer that is inside a layer set opens the layerSet so if the activeLayer is inside a set that set should already be open. In other words if you just want to open one layerSet you don't need a recursive function like those above. Just select one layer. If you want to open all the nested sets inside the selected set then pass that set as the argument( pass the set instead of the document ). ... View more

I don't know if it is a bug or not but it has been that way until Photoshop CC. Really it still is that way, CC added a new property to artLayer that will let you get the bounds without effects. app.activeDocument.activeLayer.boundsNoEffects If you don't have CC you need to turn off the layer effects before getting the bounds. Note not all layer effects change the bounds but it is easier just to turn the effects off as a group. ... View more

To expand or open a layerSet in the layers panel all you need to do is make it active as you said. But you don't have to worry about layer names and you especially don't need to create a empty layer just so you can expand the set with a script. function openAllLayerSets( parent ){     for(var setIndex=0;setIndex<parent.layerSets.length;setIndex++){         app.activeDocument.activeLayer = parent.layerSets[setIndex].layers[0];         openAllLayerSets( parent.layerSets[setIndex]);     } }; openAllLayerSets( app.activeDocument ); Because selecting and working with a layer expands the layerSet more people ask about closing the set or how to determine if a set is open or closed. I don't think there is a good simple way to close a layerSet via scripting. Paul's code at ps-scripts does work to close a layerSet but I don't think it is worth the extra steps just to make a change that doesn't really effect the document. And I don't know of any way to tell the current state of the layerSet in an open document. ... View more

I don't think so. With javascript we do tricks like hide the panels, set the doc zoom to something very small. etc to speed things up. With VB would you be able to bring another app to the front? Photoshop does not refresh the screen if it is not visible( hidden behind another app ). ... View more

I don't have CS2 installed but the CS2 javascript guide does not list colorSamplers. The CS3 guide does and says it is a new feature. So I don't think you will be able to use colorSamplers to get colors. Yes you can use action manager to make a colorSampler but there isn't a way to access it via a script once it is created. Without colorSamplers you need to create a 1x1 px selection and read the histogram of the selection to get the color. ... View more

It is regular expression and yes it is use for pattern matching. The forward slashes are used to start and end the expression when it is create this way( literal ). Another way to create one would be to make an explicit declaration var re = new RegExp('\.[^\.]+$'). Some chars in regular expressions have special meaning. The dot char normally means match any char. The blackslash is used to escape that special meaning so \. means match the dot char. The [ and ] are used for char sets. Those are normally used when you only want to match specific chars [aeiou] would match any English vowel. The ^ used inside the brackets means 'not' so [^\.] means match any char that is not a dot( or any char except an dot ). If used outside of brackets the ^ char means at the start. The + means match the preceeding one or more times. In this case match any non dot char one or more times. The $ means at the end of the string. So putting that althougher you have 'match a . followed by one or more chars at the end'. ... View more

The code I posted adds the layer above to the selected layers. To just select the layer above comment out the line desc.putEnumerated( stringIDToTypeID('selectionModifier'), stringIDToTypeID('selectionModifierType'), stringIDToTypeID('addToSelection') ); To select the layer below change this line ref.putIndex( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), getLayerLayerSectionByIndex( index-1 ) == 'layerSectionEnd' ? index-2:index-1 ) And you should add a test to check if you are already on the bottom layer. ... View more

oops, change this line var index = executeActionGet(ref).getInteger(charIDToTypeID( "ItmI" ))-Number(activeDocument.layers[activeDocument.layers.length-1].isBackgroundLayer); This should do what you want now. The only way I know to add the layer above the active layer is to get the active layer's am index and use that to select the layer above. It doesn't help that the am index has no relation to the DOM layer index, changes depending on if there is a background layer in the document, and that there is an index for the bottom of a layerSet. ... View more

You mean like alt-clicking on the layer visibility icon in the layer's panel? ... View more

I threw that together quickly without much testing. It is possible there are several case where it will fail. ... View more

A snapshot will still fill the history with a lot of opacity changes( and wipe out any of the user's history ). Your code looks like some flavor of VB. I don't know if it is available there but javascript has a suspendHistory method. That would limit the historyStates created by the script to one. And that assumes the opacity changes are being made during one running of the script. If the timer is running the script multiple times I don't think there is any thing you to do to save the history except dupe the document and make the changes on the dupe. ... View more

This should work. You can give it a better name if you like. function getLayerLayerSectionByIndex( index ) {                  var ref = new ActionReference();      ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID("Prpr") , stringIDToTypeID("layerSection"));      ref.putIndex(charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), index);      return typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID("layerSection"))); }; function someFunctionName() {     if(activeDocument.activeLayer==activeDocument.layers[0]) return;// if top layer do nothing     var ref = new ActionReference();// get am index of activeLayer     ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID("Prpr") , charIDToTypeID( "ItmI" ));     ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );     var index = executeActionGet(ref).getInteger(charIDToTypeID( "ItmI" ))+Number(activeDocument.layers[activeDocument.layers.length-1].isBackgroundLayer);     var desc = new ActionDescriptor();         var ref = new ActionReference();         ref.putIndex( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), getLayerLayerSectionByIndex( index+1 ) == 'layerSectionEnd' ? index+2:index+1 );// make sure next layer is valid( not invisible layerSet end )     desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref );     desc.putEnumerated( stringIDToTypeID('selectionModifier'), stringIDToTypeID('selectionModifierType'), stringIDToTypeID('addToSelection') );     desc.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('MkVs'), false );     executeAction( charIDToTypeID('slct'), desc, DialogModes.NO ); } someFunctionName() ... View more

Not sure what you are asking. How is customOptions related to creating a colorSampler function? ... View more

To get the name of the folder that contains the document's file use decodeURI(app.activeDocument.fullName.parent.name) Add that to the RegExp example above for removing the extension and you get saveName = decodeURI(app.activeDocument.fullName.parent.name)+'-'+ app.activeDocument.name.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '')+'.tif'; ... View more

I guess is something related to data streams It's really more about just writing to a file. It is true that it is a data stream but so is writing a text file. Action Descriptors have a toStream() and fromStream() method but those are not needed for this. Those methods are used to convert the entire descriptor between an object and binary data. We could write the legacyContentData to a file and then read the settings from that file. You would not need to keep track of the stream pointer that way. But as we don't need to keep the file it is better( and faster ) to read the settings from the variable. var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); var data = executeActionGet(ref).getList(charIDToTypeID("Adjs")).getObjectValue(0).getData( stringIDToTypeID( 'legacyContentData' ) ); var datFile = new File('~/desktop/levlelsTest.dat'); datFile.encoding = 'BINARY'; datFile.open('w'); datFile.write(data); datFile.close(); ... View more

First I wrote the data to a file after getting it from the layer descriptor. I then used a hexeditor to compare that file to the levels .alv file spec. It looked the same so I just followed the structure. If you want to try working with binary data like this I strongly suggest that you do not run/test the code using ESTK. It will hang and you will have to close ESTK and Photoshop. I use ESTK most of the time when I am working on a script because of it's features. But after loosing work countless times because of a hang I now use a different editor and test run the script using the Photoshop File-Scripts-Browse menuItem. ... View more

I may have mis-understood and made things more complex than needed. I thought if the op wanted to modify an existing levels adjustment layer they would want to get the existing settings. ... View more

Here is one way. If you don't need to deal with single channels you can delete the lines that contain channel#. You could also make dealing with the data easier by skipping the comp object and doing something like levelsOptions.inBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 2 ); var ref = new ActionReference(); ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); var data = executeActionGet(ref).getList(charIDToTypeID("Adjs")).getObjectValue(0).getData( stringIDToTypeID( 'legacyContentData' ) ); var check = getShortFromStream( data, 0 ); if(check != 2 ) throwError;// if not 2 then something is wrong var levelsOptions = {}; levelsOptions.comp = {}; levelsOptions.channel1 = {}; levelsOptions.channel2 = {}; levelsOptions.channel3 = {}; levelsOptions.comp.inBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 2 ); levelsOptions.comp.inWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 4 ); levelsOptions.comp.outBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 6 ); levelsOptions.comp.outWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 8 ); levelsOptions.comp.gamma = getShortFromStream( data, 10 )/100; levelsOptions.channel1.inBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 12 ); levelsOptions.channel1.inWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 14 ); levelsOptions.channel1.outBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 16 ); levelsOptions.channel1.outWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 18 ); levelsOptions.channel1.gamma = getShortFromStream( data, 20 )/100; levelsOptions.channel2.inBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 22 ); levelsOptions.channel2.inWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 24 ); levelsOptions.channel2.outBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 26 ); levelsOptions.channel2.outWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 28 ); levelsOptions.channel2.gamma = getShortFromStream( data, 30 )/100; levelsOptions.channel3.inBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 32 ); levelsOptions.channel3.inWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 34 ); levelsOptions.channel3.outBlack = getShortFromStream( data, 36 ); levelsOptions.channel3.outWhite = getShortFromStream( data, 38 ); levelsOptions.channel3.gamma = getShortFromStream( data, 40 )/100; function getShortFromStream( stream, pointer ) {     var hi, low;     hi = stream.charCodeAt( pointer ) << 8 ;     low = stream.charCodeAt( pointer + 1 );     return hi + low; }; ... View more