Hi Le Tom,

A know a way (may be there are anothers). So..

Put your script (javascript JSX) in illustrator/preset/your_language/Scripts/my_script.jsx (for MAC OS X)

Restart illustrator

Right now your script should be appear in illustrator's menu at : File -> Script -> my_script

So.. use Script Action palette to call my_script:

1- Make folder

2- Make layer Script Action and attribute a shortcut Key (F2 for exemple).

3- In Script Action menu (at top right corner) use Insert Command

4- write in dialogbox my_script (if your press the search button, it should be found, ** for me, first time illustrator crash, but after i have called/running manually my_script and remake this step and it's Ok**)

5 - Close/End Script Action

to try, push F2

Note: i have a French version of Illustrator CS4, so may be some commands/pathway could be named differently

Ciao, art.chrome

Salut le Tom,

Le tom wrote:

but when i stop  AI an restart him, the script is loaded without the command with specific script.

Have you same issue ?

Unfortunately, yes ..

Hi le Tom,

Le tom wrote:

 

i wish only one shotcut  to run a script.

by my previous propose, you can do this, indeed you need to make it each time you open illustrator, but how time you re-open illustrator by day ?

In fact , i'm asking me what kind of repeatitive task you made ? may be there are another solution to make it same thing...

Other way is: File -> Script -> my script

Le tom wrote:

Maybe should i creat a jsx script , running at start of AI, which create (or modifiate) action ?

Can i do it ?

want you make script (jsx) which able to make script action (illustrator) ? what is real goal ?

Regards, art.chrome

hi,

Le tom a écrit:

 

artchrome wrote:

Le tom wrote:

Maybe should i creat a jsx script , running at start of AI, which create (or modifiate) action ?

Can i do it ?

want you make script (jsx) which able to make script action (illustrator) ? what is real goal ?

 

Regards, art.chrome

yes, why not,

it's an alternative, but i don't know if it's possible.

Possible ( i think) but It's not easy way , save an Illustrator action script and open it with a text editor, you will understand what i mean

Moreover jsx is able to make more thing than illustrator action script, more quickly also...

Regards, art.chrome

Much better, without estk and confirm-prompt:

a shell / batch-script to call Illustrator with the js-script as param.

for windows like this (.bat or .cmd):

@echo off 
"C:\...\Support Files\Contents\Windows\illustrator.exe" "C:\...\Vorgaben\Skripten\e_prompt.js" 

store it wherever, create a link to it on the desktop, set link property's: hot-key and execute:minimized

okay, this works systemwide but it works, so who cares.

Chris

okay, i fetched a bash emulator for windows and wrote this *.sh script:

#!/bin/bash
ps | grep -i -e illustrator.exe 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
"C:/Programme/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS3/Support Files/Contents/Windows/illustrator.exe" C:/Programme/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS3/Vorgaben/Skripten/e_prompt.js

double clicking and it works.

unfortunately a Illustrator-message appears before the script starts: "path/to/script.js    fichier introuvable". (file not found?)(but the script starts!!!   ?strange)

I don't know,

is this a problem with the emulator?

is there a mistake in the third line?

I can't say this, it's on you, Mac-users.

for testing you can copy the second and third line in a shell-window.

of course, the paths has to be edited to your needs.

Chris

edit: i found that the second path (the argument) has to be in Windows-notation (on my windows-machine), so Unix-machines should not get this message

If you are on the mac then you could use a utility to add keyboard shortcuts to various scripts for apps including Illustrator. 'FastScripts' by 'Red Sweater' is an AppleScript one that adds an extra menubar item with dropdown lists of all you favorite scripts (AppleScript of cause) but then there is no reason why this could NOT just be a wrapper to calling a JavaScript file to execute within the app… This works for me… You would need a complied AppleScript wrapper for each of you script files but its very easy to see how to edit AppleScript. Here is an example of the wrapper…

set Apps_Folder to (path to applications folder as text)
set Scripts_Path to "Adobe Illustrator CS2:Presets.localized:Scripts.localized:"
set JS_FileName to "Hello_World.jsx"
--
try
     set JS_File to Apps_Folder & Scripts_Path & JS_FileName as alias
     tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
          do javascript JS_File show debugger on runtime error
     end tell
on error
     display dialog "Script file '" & JS_FileName & "' NOT found?" giving up after 2
end try

Just change the file name string in line 3 & also the folder name for your version of Illustrator in line 2

This utility will let you add keyboard shortcuts to which ever scripts you want once added.

Chris, a couple of things that may be of interest to you but I don't have a great deal of knowledge or experience with.

On OSX for a shell (bash) to be executable from JavaScript it must first have it bit permissions set. Even with this and why I have NOT personally done anything with this is it only works with CS4 & CS5 (may be CS3). If you want to create/write shell's on the fly then this can be done by creating a directory with set permissions before hand. Then writing your files below this should set them executable too. Xbytor who posts in the Photoshop does do this on the mac. You should search that forum for his examples…

AppleScript is a different matter as the syntax of script has to be compiled into file. The quick key solution that I posted here is NOT one that could be done on the fly as the Utility needs to load the compiled scripts at startup and you assign keys via it's preferences. So this would NOT be a solution to you but possibly to the original poster. (At least its NOT going to forget at app restart)…

As a side note AppleScript 'syntax' can be executed by shell using 'osascript -e'

And a text file can be compiled using 'osacompile' but these are long and messy options.

mark.

Hi All.

My problem is a little bit out of topic but may be you can help me anyway.

in CS5, I put my ".jsxbin" script in "scripts" folder but after restarting Illustrator, my script is not included in the script list.

Also in the dialog window I can't select "jsxbin" scripts insted of "jsx".

Why?

thanks

Ivan

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