Very frustrated - SolidColor() property

[sekatsim]

I'm very frustrated with PSCS4 scripting. This is my first attempt at scripting, and when I try and run

var solidColorRef = new solidColor()
solidColorRef.cmyk.cyan = 20
solidColorRef.cmyk.magenta = 90
solidColorRef.cmyk.yellow = 50
solidColorRef.cmyk.black = 50
foregroundColor = solidColorRef

(straight out of the adobe developer PDF for JS scripting for my version of photoshop)

I get "solidColor does not have a constructor" as an error message.

Any other scripts I copy out of the same PDF run fine-- but anything I use involving solidColor returns the same error message.

Can anyone help me with this problem?

[DannyRaphael]

I don't know much about scripting, but here are two very good resources where you can also ask (it never hurts to fish in multiple places):
· Adobe.com forums (there’s one specifically for PS Scripting)
· http://www.ps-scripts.com

I hope this helps...

[sekatsim]

Danny,

I did actually fish in multiple places, and managed to get a reply from ps-scripts. In case anyone else is googling the same problem: "var solidColorRef = new solidColor()" should read "var solidColorRef = new SolidColor()" (note the capitalization).

This was a typo in the manual, on adobe's part. Hopefully someone will correct it for the next revision.

Thanks for your help.

[marcel_911]

Originally Posted by sekatsim

This was a typo in the manual, on adobe's part.

Thanks for that. I searched for the error and this thread was the first reference I found.