Multi-select is a parameter of File.openDlg(Prompt,fileFilter,true) default is false… ... View more

would this not do? var allArgs = app.scriptArgs.getElements(); ... View more

I don't have this version of the OS so things could well have changed but this may be worth a try… log (do shell script "lpstat -s") Place in several places throughout your script and see if it changes some where along the line… ... View more

Im not sat in front of a box equipped with CS5 at the moment… Even so it appears that HDRToning is a pre-installed script… Have you tried open it in the ESTK to see what it does? Thats if it not some binary… ... View more

This is only my 'guess'… I would expect each authoring app to create it's own preview(s) if it can. Bridge generates and caches previews and there are some options in the app preferences. Such as 'Keep 100% previews in cache' and 'Generate Monitor Sized Previews'. Im not sure if these are exposed to script you would need to check… And I have not had the need yet to see if these make any difference. If you needed to change these then you may be required to purge the cached data… Again something I have yet to do. I think you can make a new bitmap from an image but Paul would know more on that than me. For other formats it looks like they are 72dpi at given dimensions (why bridge calculates incorrect dimensions)… ... View more

I may well be wrong but at a very quick glance I would say that you have recorded the playing of an action… What you need do with scriptlistener is record the process/dialog or what ever it is again and utilize the output from that… ... View more

I was meant to be here with regard to your last comment about layers within layer sets… if thats what you meant by groups? ... View more

Ghoulfool, I gave this a go… Ran a few basic tests and I think I got it right? Do let me know… Quite possibly not the most efficient way… But there you go… #target photoshop function layerNamer() {      var opts = new Object();      var win = new Window('dialog','Rename Layers…');      win.preferredSize = [200,undefined];      win.opacity = 0.95;      var red = 0, green = (1/256)*102, blue = (1/256)*153;      win.graphics.backgroundColor = win.graphics.newBrush      (win.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR, [red, green, blue]);      var grp1 = win.add('group');      grp1.orientation = 'column';      var opText = grp1.add('statictext',undefined,'Options: ');      opText.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont('Helvetica', 'Bold', 12);      opText.graphics.foregroundColor = opText.graphics.newPen      (opText.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0], 1);      grp1.add('statictext', [5,15,195,37], 'Find String/Expression:');      var findEdit = grp1.add('edittext', [5,45,195,67], '');      findEdit.graphics.backgroundColor = findEdit.graphics.newBrush      (findEdit.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0], 1);      findEdit.active = true;      grp1.add('statictext', [5,75,195,97], 'Replacement String:');      var repEdit = grp1.add('edittext', [5,105,195,127], '');      repEdit.graphics.backgroundColor = repEdit.graphics.newBrush      (repEdit.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0], 1);      var chkboxA = grp1.add('checkbox', [5,135,195,157], 'Case Sensitive');      var chkboxB = grp1.add('checkbox', [5,165,195,187], 'Global');      var chkboxC = grp1.add('checkbox', [5,195,195,217], 'Include Text Layers');      var grp2 = win.add('group');      grp2.cancelBtn = grp2.add('button',undefined,'Cancel',{name:'cancel'});      grp2.okBtn = grp2.add('button',undefined,'OK',{name:'ok'});      grp2.okBtn.onClick = function() {           opts.find = findEdit.text;           opts.replace = repEdit.text;           opts.ignore = chkboxA.value;           opts.global = chkboxB.value;           opts.txtLay = chkboxC.value;                      processDoc(opts);           win.close(0);      };      win.center();      win.show(); }; if ( app.documents.length > 0) { layerNamer(); } function processDoc(opts) {            var find;      if ( opts.global && !opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find,'gi'); }      if ( opts.global && opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find,'g'); }      if ( !opts.global && !opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find,'i'); }            if ( !opts.global && opts.ignore ) { find = new RegExp(opts.find); }            var doc = app.activeDocument;            recurseLayers(doc.layers);            function recurseLayers(layObj) {           for ( var i = 0; i < layObj.length; i++ ) {                if ( find.test(layObj.name) )                     {                          if (layObj.kind == LayerKind.TEXT && !opts.txtLay) { continue; }                                                    layObj.name = layObj.name.replace(find,opts.replace);                     }                if ( layObj.typename == 'LayerSet' )                     { recurseLayers(layObj.layers); }           }      } }; ... View more

Using the DOM then I would expect you need to step thru with a recursive function… I would also expect that there is a much faster action manager method have you looked at x's toolkit…? ... View more

Ghoulfool, your script is for the names of the layers… BTW I made one that works thru all sub layers with a couple of options only yesterday its at home thou. I think the OP wants to actually deal with the content of text layers… I'll post my script later when I get home if you want it…? I only need to add a little UI to it. ... View more

Others here use this more than I do… But have you taken a look at exiftool it has loads of options and Im sure this is covered… You may be able to have it list or move files that you can then process in Photoshop or Bridge… I don't know of a way to do this in Ps or Br… ... View more

From the toolkit guide… $.evalFile (path[, timeout]) // Loads a JavaScript script file from disk, evaluates it, and returns the result of evaluation. path: The name and location of the file. timeout: Optional. A number of milliseconds to wait before returning undefined, if the script cannot be evaluated. Default is 10000 milliseconds. Do you not have the toolkit guide PDF? It covers all the inter-app, file system access, bridgetalk stuff including the $ object… Could you give an overview of what this script is intended to do and where you are calling it from? ... View more

BridgeTalk is not Bridge the App although that could be a possible target. It is the ESTK's inter-app messaging system… There is NO app.doScript() in Photoshop that method is InDesign only. Where are you running the script from? Have you tried using $.fileEval() ... View more

Paul, I tried on.changing() to on.change() before and I get the same result… if too close… error ... View more

Mike, If its any help its the line before that locks out… Kicks back about general error and not available with this version of photoshop… If I move the slider in clear separate moves it appears fine… but make 2 moves too close to each other… then error… ... View more

A vertical slider ran against other app targets… Then same dialog in PS… tut tut… ... View more

Paul, you know I can't test that… I saw in a guide that that was a mac only thing may be I was mislead… Anyhows to the problem… app.refresh(); Appears to be doing this for me… Take this test that I did… with this commented out runs fine put it in and the line before it kicks out an error? Im not good enough at this stuff to know why that is…? But I do suspect photoshop+mac+scriptUI has issues anyway… That vertical slider for instance works in other targets but NOT in photoshop… Hum… My test… oh and why does my d value not work for 100% got some silly math issue there… Need to look at that… function layerOpacity() {      var win = new Window('dialog','Adjust Opacity');            win.preferredSize = [250,150];            win.opacity = 0.9;      var red = 0, green = (1/256)*102, blue = (1/256)*153;      win.graphics.backgroundColor = win.graphics.newBrush      (win.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR,[red, green, blue]);            var grp1 = win.add('group');      grp1.orientation = 'column';            var layop = Math.round(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.opacity);            //var layop = 10; // Just to test against the ESTK engine      var opText = grp1.add('statictext',undefined,'Opacity: '+layop);            opText.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont('Helvetica', 'Bold', 12);            opText.graphics.foregroundColor = opText.graphics.newPen      (opText.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1.0, 1.0, 1.0], 1);            var qual = grp1.add('slider',undefined,layop,0,100);      qual.preferredSize = [200,50];            qual.onChanging = function () {                 var d = Math.round(qual.value);                      opText.text = opText.text.replace(/\d*$/,d);                      app.activeDocument.activeLayer.opacity = d;           //app.refresh();                 };            var grp2 = win.add('group');                 grp2.cancelBtn = grp2.add('button',undefined,'Cancel',{name:'cancel'});            grp2.okBtn = grp2.add('button',undefined,'OK',{name:'ok'});                 grp2.okBtn.onClick = function() {                     for (var i = 90; i > 10; i--) {                               $.sleep(5);                win.opacity = i/100;                          }                 win.close(0);      };                 win.center();            win.show(); }; layerOpacity(); ... View more

Oh shush paul… more likely me… May be it needs a vertical slider do that on ya pc… And this is what we do with Apple stuff when it don't work like it should… Yep throw it down the garden… That will learn it… ... View more

It did that on me too and I wasn't sure why… ... View more

Mike, I will need to take a look at your example of the keyboard events looks interesting… I have not used any to date… I put this in a palette for illustrator a couple of weeks back and it amused me the whole day… Small thing n small minds… and all that…      beGone.onClick = function() {                      // Fadeout locks focus for a short while…                      for (var i = 90; i > 10; i--) {                                $.sleep(10);                palWin.opacity = i/100;                           }                 palWin.close(); // Be gone…      }; I color my palettes based on the app color and set the opacity to 90 just because it looks pretty that way on my mac… Have you worked out how to or if you can use themes? within UI… ... View more

With Illustrator EPS the files can be RGB or CMYK… Only files pre version 9 can contain both and if you open these you will be prompted to force to one or the other color modes. That said with RGB files there is a save option to include CMYK postscript if this is true then the line %%DocumentProcessColors: will exist in the comments if false it will not and the posted function should return null… Remember this list is the process separations and only the ones that are used… ... View more

The comment could be… Any combination of the 4 process colours used or none if its empty or white. The colour mode is in a similar comment with a 1 or 0 to indicate CMYK or RGB. ... View more

Im currently at work and have no access to my snippets… But the example posted in this forum does work. What you need is a 'try/on error' inside of a short time out statement… Say 10 seconds dependent on your images and how long you expect to take to open… Photoshop will not error in these situations but AppleScript will from the timeout… in the on error call a sub-routine to do the keystroke. That should be it. It looks like we may get a change in this behavior in future releases Tom has requested it… I can't do any of this using the ESTK… ... View more

You are not able to load swatch libraries in Illustrator scripting like you can in InDesign… So in short the answer would be No… In this a case scripting is not going to be able to help you… You can create and work with spot colors but you would not have access to the PMS look ups… ... View more

In your case I would not use illustrator's definition of word and go for splitting the para yourself… var doc = app.activeDocument; var tFrame = doc.textFrames[0]; var para = tFrame.paragraphs[0].contents; var words = para.split('\t'); alert(words.length) for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++)      {           alert(words)      } This worked for me once I replaced the multi-space of this forum with where I think you had tabs in your post… ... View more

Im not sure but this does do what I think you are expecting… var doc = app.activeDocument; var tFrame = doc.textFrames[0]; var para = tFrame.paragraphs[0]; var words = para.words; alert(words.length) for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++)      {           alert(words.contents)      } ... View more

Use the file object select instead… Edit… Very sorry I got that plain wrong… A file object can reference a file or folder object but the file select method does NOT work in the same way… ... View more

I never had CS4 but Illustrator has options for opening files and handling artboards… convertCropAreaToArboard convertTilesToArboard createArtboardWithArtworkBoundingBox // This may be what you want? preserveLegacyArtboard You could batch script opening files… even script it to work from bridge as input… I don't use actions so I don't know it these options are available when recording some open file in AI? ... View more