descriptor to JSON is already buil-in in Photoshop about descriptor-info HOT 11 CLOSED

I think DOM uses AM and you need to do extra AM interface for anything new feature you do. If you would remove AM and keep scripting posibilities there would be enormous amount of work. And some buil-in feature uses AM including Library panel (flag ship)

I found something called: ExecuteJSONActions in binaries files. But I don't know if this is what we want.
New new document dialog uses json. But it's only for saving presets.

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Btw, @jardicc did you check this one out? :)
parse-action-descriptor-code
Live example: https://javieraroche.github.io/parse-action-descriptor-code/

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Oh awesome!! I remember talking about this "json" property with Davide Barranca a while ago, but it looked like it wasn't supported across all photoshop versions. I just tested on CC2015.5 and CC2017 and it works!

It's actually pretty cool that we get similar results :) but this repo is probably not needed anymore, unless someone wants compatibility with previous versions where the "json" property might not exist.

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David reported some bugs in current Photoshop version. So it might not be reliable now. It think this repo has use cases. Sometimes you want adjust your output. Compatibility debug is also important.

So I will use your code in future.

This is my debug tool: https://pastebin.com/NczkaAAt

You can pause running script and run in console:
#include c:\path\to\script\MagicInsight.jsx insight.layer()

And it will create file on the desktop file with info about selected layer (if you didn't used parameters which layer you want). Similar for app and document. Simple, usefull and on the fly.

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I am now interested what "jsonAction" stringID means. It's right next to "convertJSONDescriptor" stringID
http://sklad.bereza.cz/00-jarda/00_screenshot/2017-05-30_230558.jpg

I suspect that you could write json instead action manager cryptography

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Nice! I like your adaptation of this. I think I'll try to fix some of the remaining issues and merge back to master.

It'd be cool if "convertJSONDescriptor" gives us a way to script a descriptor using a JSON object. That was another idea for this project, to use the object that descriptor-info spits out, modify some values, and send it back to Photoshop to implement new values. Or, just to create an object with the correct properties and send it to Photoshop, but it's a very complicated thing to do since all descriptors have different levels of complexity.

Also, who knows how long ExtendScript will stick around. I can see Adobe rewriting Photoshop's DOM in the future. ExtendScript is just not manageable moving forwards.

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Check this: https://github.com/jardicc/ActionManagerHumanizer
string to descriptor; descriptor to string

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Hey man! I saw it earlier, but I never got a chance to try it out until now. It's super cool, great job man! Hopefully our tools help a lot of people starting in ExtendScript 😃

The object, convertJSONdescriptor and json IDs are fantastic. It took Adobe a long time to implement them! :)

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A lot of people did similar tool.
I did "lexicon" library this allow me write code like this:

var desc1 = new LxActionDescriptor();
var desc2 = new LxActionDescriptor();
desc2.putString( "name", """New File""" );
desc2.putBoolean( "artboard" , false );
desc2.putClass( "Md ", "RGBM" );
desc2.putUnitDouble( "width", "#Rlt", 480.000000 );
desc2.putUnitDouble( "height", "#Rlt", 360.000000 );
desc2.putUnitDouble( "resolution", "#Rsl", 300.000000 );
desc2.putDouble( "pixelScaleFactor", 1.000000 );
desc2.putEnumerated( "fill", "fill", "transparent" );
desc2.putInteger( "Dpth" , 8 );
desc2.putString( "profile" , """sRGB IEC61966-2.1""" );
desc1.putObject( "new" , "document" , desc2 );
desc1.putInteger( "DocI", 208 );
executeAction( "make", desc1);

But I don't have yet automated tool for conversion into "lexicon" format.

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Yeah the Clean JSX and the Sort IDs are pretty simple functions, but the interesting one is when you select Create Function from the dropdown. You can use that to turn that "make new doc" function, into a flexible function, like this:

function makeNewDoc(params) {
	var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
	var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
	desc2.putString( charIDToTypeID( "Nm  " ), params.name);
	desc2.putBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( "artboard" ), params.artboard);
	desc2.putClass( charIDToTypeID( "Md  " ), charIDToTypeID( "RGBM" ) );
	desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Wdth" ), charIDToTypeID( "#Rlt" ), params.width);
	desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Hght" ), charIDToTypeID( "#Rlt" ), params.height);
	desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Rslt" ), charIDToTypeID( "#Rsl" ), params.resolution);
	desc2.putDouble( stringIDToTypeID( "pixelScaleFactor" ), params.pixelScaleFactor);
	desc2.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID( "Fl  " ), charIDToTypeID( "Fl  " ), charIDToTypeID( "Trns" ) );
	desc2.putInteger( charIDToTypeID( "Dpth" ), params.depth);
	desc2.putString( stringIDToTypeID( "profile" ), params.profile);
	desc1.putObject( charIDToTypeID( "Nw  " ), charIDToTypeID( "Dcmn" ), desc2 );
	desc1.putInteger( charIDToTypeID( "DocI" ), params.docID);
	executeAction( charIDToTypeID( "Mk  " ), desc1, DialogModes.NO );
}

var params = {
	name: "New File" ,
	artboard: false ,
	width: 480.000000 ,
	height: 360.000000 ,
	resolution: 300.000000 ,
	pixelScaleFactor: 1.000000 ,
	depth: 8 ,
	profile: "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" ,
	docID: 208 
};

makeNewDoc(params);

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So... I also added some code cleaning into Humanizer :-)

https://github.com/jardicc/ActionManagerHumanizer/blob/master/README.md#how-to-convert-action-manager-script-listener-code-into-playable-humanized-code

On my roadmap is also converting humanized code back into AM vomits :-)
Because it's faster and sometimes it is good for code obfuscation.
So you can convert low-level code into mid-level code, understand what is going on, make some changes and convert it back.

Note to your params object.

What if you have e.g. color gradient with several color stops. How would you know which green is in which color stop?

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