Are You talking about Scripts or Actions?
I’m speaking about the Actions that you record in Photoshop…
G
Hm, I suppose one could use xbytors »ActionToJavascript.jsx« and edit the resulting jsx-files in Extend Script Toolkit; but of course the result would be Scripts instead of Actions.
Other than that I frankly have no idea how to do that.
Chistoph has got the right idea.
Using Xbytor’s Xtools you could use
ActionFileToXML.jsx
This will change the selected atn file to XML format so that you could use a text editor on the file. Once you have made the changes use ActionFileFromXML.jsx to re-create the atn file.
<http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2333>
Once again I looked in the right direction but missed the actual solution. Good catch!
Another solution is to edit your actions on the destination computer. The only thing that changes with different machines are file locations. If you double click the saving and opening steps in the action panel, it will allow you to redefine these. This is WITHOUT using a text editor on the .atn file
Yes but manual editing can be time consuming for the user if there are many actions to modify, also a lot of users do not have the Photoshop knowledge that you have.
I am in the process of writing a script that will install all the actions sets/scripts on different platforms and different versions of Photoshop and all the user has to do is run the install script.
I am in the process of writing a script that will install all the >actions sets/scripts on different platforms and different versions of >Photoshop and all the user has to do is run the install script.
Wow, That would be wonderful… We constantly have to redo our actions because of that.
All that changes is the location, so if I could use that script, it would be simple…
Please let me know when you have this done…
Gary
Using Xbytor’s Xtools you could use ActionFileToXML.jsx This will change the selected atn file to XML format so that you could >use a text editor on the file. Once you have made the changes use >ActionFileFromXML.jsx to re-create the atn file.
Wow, this sounds great. But i’ve only run a jsx script in Photoshop, on a picture.
So give me the basics on how to do this? What program to I open and then do I point to the Actions.atn that I created in Photoshop and save to make a file that I can edit.
And then I open that file and save it back to an ATN file?
Just a little more help please, I’ve not done that before.
Gary
Yes I will e-mail you when I get it all sorted, I have one version working taylored for a certain installation, now need to test it on different platforms / Photoshop versions.
I would need to make it more generic for general use.
Paul,
I still would like to know how you do this scripting? Using what and how. I did download the toolbox you suggested…
Thanks,
In a nutshell…
These are the two main scripts that you will need besides creating one that does the editing/loading.removing action sets.
< http://ps-scripts.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ps-s cripts/xtools/apps/ActionFileToXML.jsx >
< http://ps-scripts.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ps-s cripts/xtools/apps/ActionFileFromXML.jsx >
The first script ActionFileToXML.jsx is run on the action set, this will produce an editable XML file.
Edit this file and replace the path (leaving "/filename") with something you can find/replace with ie REPLACEME
The next thing is to create a script that will read in this xml file (to be run from Photoshop), replace the string with the correct path
In my case it was the preset/scripts folder.
var SCRIPTS_FOLDER = decodeURI(app.path + ‘/’ + localize("$$$/ScriptingSupport/InstalledScripts=Presets/Scripts "));
Write out the modified to another xml file.
Modify ActionFileFromXML.jsx to run and process this new xml file and produce the new atn file.
Call this from your script
eval(‘//@include "’+newPath+’/actionFileFromXML.jsx";\r’);
newPath is the location of the running scripts folder.
var newPath = decodeURI(WhoAmI().parent);
function WhoAmI() {
var where;
try {var F = FO;
}catch( err ) {where = File(err.fileName);}
return where;
}
Remove any atn file from Photoshop if it is the action set you want to replace, load the new action set.
I have sent you an e-mail with the modified code Gary.
