Presently I have to use two Quickeys that hold two separate scripts that are practically identical.
For instance the below script is targeting the “Square” action form a Photoshop action set.
I could avoid two Quickeys if the following was possible:
Is there any way to tell the script if the active document’s width is equal to or less than 125% of the active document’s height, then do action “Square” from “StreamlineTemplate.atn”
if the active document’s width is equal to or greater than 125% of the height then do action “Wide” from “StreamlineTemplate.atn”
I just don’t know how to tell the script to find the image dimensions and perform such math?
Can anyone help me?
-jeff
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
activate
do action "Square" from "StreamlineTemplate.atn"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "," using {command down}
end tell
This works for me in PS7, Jeff - so you might try an adaptation. (Many commands/functions are the same or similar, so just try changing the app name to start with.)
tell application "Adobe Photoshop 7.0"
tell current document
width ≤ height * 1.25
end tell
end tell
Kai,
Your code will get the values, but I can’t seem to make the script differentiate and perform following actions based on either of the two sizes.
Can you help me out. Although you already have helped tremendously.
I think this can be done.
-jeff
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
tell current document
try
width ≤ height * 1.25
do action "Wide" from "StreamlineTemplate.atn"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "," using {command down}
end try
try
width ≥ height * 1.25
do action "Square" from "StreamlineTemplate.atn"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "," using {command down}
end try
end tell
end tell
You may want to search the forms or browse other posts and look for if / then statements. It’s a core concept of programming and would help you tremendously.
Sorry Jeff, I didn’t realise that you were looking for a pointer on the conditional side of things, too. No worries.
Try something like this:
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS" to tell current document
if width < height * 1.25 then
do action "Square" from "StreamlineTemplate.atn"
else
do action "Wide" from "StreamlineTemplate.atn"
end if
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "," using {command down}
(Incidentally, since only one condition or the other can include equivalence, the above will go for “Wide” if width = height * 1.25 exactly. I’ll leave the final decision on that one to you…)
No problem Kai,
Thank you for helping. I just was about to post what I just created, which seems to work. And then I saw your newest post.
FWIW, this is what I came up with that seems to work. (But I see I could have eliminated a line)
I do need to learn more fundamentals. Every time I set out to learn, I get bombarded with other tasks that take priority at work and home
Thank you so much, I am going to try your script right now.
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
tell current document
try
if width ≤ height * 1.25 then
do action "Square" from "StreamlineTemplate.atn"
else if width ≥ height * 1.25 then
do action "Wide" from "StreamlineTemplate.atn"
end if
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "," using {command down}
end try
end tell
end tell
