"Nicolas Fleury" wrote in message
jjs wrote:
Does anyone knows a way to assign an external program (running it) to a short-cut in Photoshop.
May I ask why? You can’t affect the image currently in PS by running an external program, and the Mac and WindoZe desktop or program bars are as close as a PS button. Just curious.
I think you can affect the image currently in PS by using the COM interface.
That’s not true. If an external program makes a change to the image currently on your screen in PS/CS then it won’t show on your screen. You will have to close the current image and open the new one – providing you don’t run into an unfortunate file-lock problem. But keep reading, please.
I have artists who want to have the ability to save images in 8 bits .tga and .bmp and we already have an external program doing the job. A compromise could have been to have short-cuts in PS to do the job. I think I will have no choice but buy the PS SDK 🙁
If I understand your objective, then Photoshop (CS) can do that without any problem. Just create a Droplet. The artists won’t even have to interact with PS. It’s autoMagic as far as they are concerned.
Further, using a Droplet means you can actually invoke the droplet through the COM (cmd, command) interface, passing it arguments (file names, etc) if necessary. I posted the How To some months ago, perhaps a year ago.
No need to drag out the SDK. Press HELP and look at AUTOMATE and DROPLETS. That is, if I understand your problem properly.
Let’s dive into this with a real-life example. Lay out the senario in detail and let us have at it. The outcome might surprise you. (Or me, if I misunderstand what you need/want.)