Re: scripting Photoshop
Re: scripting Photoshop
- Subject: Re: scripting Photoshop
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:46:20 -0600
on 12/13/2000 6:29 PM, Ed Stockly at email@hidden wrote:
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> Ever open a script that uses PhotoScripter while Photoshop isn't
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> running? Your computer halts while it runs Photoshop in the background -
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> not pretty. Things like that need not happen if Applescript support was
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> built-in.
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Same thing happens with Quark. It's not PhotoScripter's fault. The
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"problem" is that PhotoShop has a dynamic dictionary which can be changed
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depending on which plug-ins are installed. PhotoShop is opened by
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AppleScript so AppleScript can compile the script's terminology based on the
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current dictionary.
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The same thing would happen if Scriptability were built in. This is a good
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thing, a pretty thing. It allows enlightened plug in developers to add
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scriptability to their plug in.
Really. I was not aware of that. In that case, I retract my statement.
JR