Photoshop: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

[mantra Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mantra]

Hi

i understand nothing about script

but is there a way to record a script?
i mean like an action


for example click and select a tool , the hand tool , and let photoshop write the script (that have the command to select the hand tool)

or is there a tool to convert an action to a script?

thanks
cheers

[Der_W Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Der_W]

Re: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

Hi mantra,

yes, there is a way, but it creates really huge scripts and of course you can't record some of the interesting things like loops etc.
What you need to do is go to your "Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CSX\Scripting\Utilities" folder and copy the file "ScriptListener.8li" to "Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CSX\Plug-ins\Automate".
Now restart Photoshop and it'll automatically record everything you do and place the script on your desktop. When you don't need the functionality anymore, just put a "~" in front of the "ScriptListener.8li" inside your "Automate" folder.
And you probably need to clean your script of junk, e.g. opening and closing particular files, if you want it to run on multiple images.

[capice Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close capice]

Re: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

Thanks/Danke Jonas, great tip...gonna give it a try

[mantra Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mantra]

Re: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

Hi mantra,

yes, there is a way, but it creates really huge scripts and of course you can't record some of the interesting things like loops etc.
What you need to do is go to your "Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CSX\Scripting\Utilities" folder and copy the file "ScriptListener.8li" to "Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CSX\Plug-ins\Automate".
Now restart Photoshop and it'll automatically record everything you do and place the script on your desktop. When you don't need the functionality anymore, just put a "~" in front of the "ScriptListener.8li" inside your "Automate" folder.
And you probably need to clean your script of junk, e.g. opening and closing particular files, if you want it to run on multiple images.

Hi Jonas
thanks
i'm tring to have a short script to load cs5 always with the histogram in rgb mode and not in colors mode

cheers

[Der_W Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Der_W]

Re: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

Following John's advice in your other thread I just recorded a script that'll create a new 1x1px Lab file, which needs to stay open all the time. The next images you open should automatically have the histogram set to RGB.

var idMk = charIDToTypeID( "Mk " );
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idNw = charIDToTypeID( "Nw " );
var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idMd = charIDToTypeID( "Md " );
var idLbCM = charIDToTypeID( "LbCM" );
desc2.putClass( idMd, idLbCM );
var idWdth = charIDToTypeID( "Wdth" );
var idRlt = charIDToTypeID( "#Rlt" );
desc2.putUnitDouble( idWdth, idRlt, 1.000000 );
var idHght = charIDToTypeID( "Hght" );
var idRlt = charIDToTypeID( "#Rlt" );
desc2.putUnitDouble( idHght, idRlt, 1.000000 );
var idRslt = charIDToTypeID( "Rslt" );
var idRsl = charIDToTypeID( "#Rsl" );
desc2.putUnitDouble( idRslt, idRsl, 72.000000 );
var idpixelScaleFactor = stringIDToTypeID( "pixelScaleFactor" );
desc2.putDouble( idpixelScaleFactor, 1.000000 );
var idFl = charIDToTypeID( "Fl " );
var idFl = charIDToTypeID( "Fl " );
var idWht = charIDToTypeID( "Wht " );
desc2.putEnumerated( idFl, idFl, idWht );
var idDpth = charIDToTypeID( "Dpth" );
desc2.putInteger( idDpth, 8 );
var idprofile = stringIDToTypeID( "profile" );
desc2.putString( idprofile, "none" );
var idDcmn = charIDToTypeID( "Dcmn" );
desc1.putObject( idNw, idDcmn, desc2 );
executeAction( idMk, desc1, DialogModes.NO );

[mantra Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mantra]

Re: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

Following John's advice in your other thread I just recorded a script that'll create a new 1x1px Lab file, which needs to stay open all the time. The next images you open should automatically have the histogram set to RGB.

thanks Jonas!!!!
did you use ScriptListener.8li ?

let me understand , you did start photoshop, the script start to record
create a new 1x1px lab file and you did close photoshop

and did you copy and paste the script?
or had you to edit the script

thanks
cheers

[Der_W Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Der_W]

Re: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

Yes, I used the ScriptListener for this as I saw no information on how to set the histogram in the JavaScript reference document.

That's entirely true, I just recorded starting the script, creating the file and closing Photoshop.
The only thing I had to edit was to remove the last part, were I had to close the file, because otherwise that would have been part of the script as well and be quite useless.

Btw. I'm still asking myself, why not create an action to do these exact steps? I mean, basically what the ScriptListener does is create a temporary action and run it, so I don't see much benefit in using a script here

[mantra Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mantra]

Re: is there a way to record a script or convert ?

Yes, I used the ScriptListener for this as I saw no information on how to set the histogram in the JavaScript reference document.

That's entirely true, I just recorded starting the script, creating the file and closing Photoshop.
The only thing I had to edit was to remove the last part, were I had to close the file, because otherwise that would have been part of the script as well and be quite useless.

Btw. I'm still asking myself, why not create an action to do these exact steps? I mean, basically what the ScriptListener does is create a temporary action and run it, so I don't see much benefit in using a script here

yes i agree with the action
but i though that a short script could set to rgb the histogram without this trick

thanks
cheers