Photoshop CS3
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preferences.typeUnits = TypeUnits.PIXELS
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 JavaScript Scripting Reference, or in the ExtendScript Object Model Viewer, look
up the
Preferences object to view all of the settings properties you can use. Additionally, look up the
preferences property on the Application object.
Allowing or Preventing Dialogs
It is important to be able to control dialogs properly from a script. If a dialog appears, your script stops
until a user dismisses the dialog. This is normally fine in an interactive script that expects a user to be
sitting at the machine. But if you have a script that runs in an unsupervised (batch) mode, you do not want
dialogs to be displayed and stop your script.
You use the
display dialogs (DisplayDialogs/displayDialogs) property of the Application object
to control whether or not dialogs are displayed.
Note: Using dialogs in your script is roughly equivalent to using stops in a Photoshop CS3 action.
AS
The following script prevents dialogs from being displayed:
set display dialogs to never
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 AppleScript Scripting Reference or in the Photoshop CS3 AppleScript Dictionary,
look up the
Class application to find the values you can use for the display dialogs property.
VBS
To set dialog preferences, you use the DisplayDialogs property of the Application object.
appRef.DisplayDialogs = 3
'for PsDialogModes --> 3 (psDisplayNoDialogs)
Note that, because DisplayDialogs is a property of the Application object, you must reference the
Application object in the script to get to the property.
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Visual Basic Scripting Reference, or in the Visual Basic Object Browser, look up
the
Application object property DisplayDialogs. You’ll see the value type for this property is the
constant
PsDialogModes. You can also look up the options for PsDialogModes.
JS
To set dialog preferences, you use the displayDialogs property of the Application object.
displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 JavaScript Scripting Reference, or in the ExtendScript Object Model Viewer, look
up the
Application object property displayDialogs, and then look up the constant DialogModes.
Working with the Photoshop CS3 Object Model
This section contains information about using the objects in the Photoshop CS3 Object Model. For
information on object models, see Introduction to Scripting and ‘Photoshop CS3 Object Model’ on page 9
.
Using the Application Object
This section describes how and when to use the Application object in a script. It also describes how to
use some properties of the
Application object.
