Please excuse my inexperience with writing scripts. I am mostly a copy - cut - paste scripter.
I have an extension panel for my users in Photoshop that has buttons for menu items and tools. I also have two buttons that run scripts that were complied from Actions scripts. What I have learned is that these buttons on the extension panel do not work if the two action scripts are not loaded into the Action panel.
What I would like to have happen is for the scripts to run without having to have them loaded into the Actions panel. Below is what I have in my hotscript.jsx file for one of the Actions. How would I code this so it does not require the scripts to be loaded into the Actions panel?
function selShade()
{var idPly = charIDToTypeID( "Ply " ); var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor(); var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" ); var ref2 = new ActionReference(); var idActn = charIDToTypeID( "Actn" ); ref2.putName( idActn, "Shade" ); var idASet = charIDToTypeID( "ASet" ); ref2.putName( idASet, "Shade" ); desc3.putReference( idnull, ref2 );
executeAction( idPly, desc3, DialogModes.NO );
}
The Second script is this:
function selCreatepdf()
{var idPly = charIDToTypeID( "Ply " ); var desc14 = new ActionDescriptor(); var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" ); var ref6 = new ActionReference(); var idActn = charIDToTypeID( "Actn" ); ref6.putName( idActn, "Before After Presentation" ); var idASet = charIDToTypeID( "ASet" ); ref6.putName( idASet, "Before After PDF" ); desc14.putReference( idnull, ref6 );
executeAction( idPly, desc14, DialogModes.NO );
}
I hope this is possible because it would eliminate my users having to load Actions into the Actions panel.
Thanks in Advance for your help - Sam