weird photoshop result

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#1

Hi there,
I have a script that checks the colour mode of the current Photoshop document. When I run the code below it displays a dialog message of “CMYK” as expected.

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
	set colour_mode to mode of current document as string
	display dialog colour_mode
end tell

When I add an idle handler to this I get a completely different result “«constant ****e083»”

on idle
	tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
		set colour_mode to mode of current document as string
		display dialog colour_mode
	end tell
end idle

Any ideas why this is happening?
Thanks,
Nik

#2

Hi,
on further investigation I’ve discoved that it’s nothing to do with the idle handler but the difference between running the code as a script which returns the expected result and then saving the code as an application and it returning the wrong one. Any ideas?

#3

Hi Nik,
yes thats right that you got the result as RAW-code when you save the Script as App.
Use this:

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
	set colour_mode to mode of current document
	if colour_mode = RGB then set colour_mode to "RGB"
-- if ... then...
	display dialog colour_mode
end tell

Greets from
TMA

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