[Q] Is accessible (get/set) for Brush Settings' Lock features?

[Naoki-Hada]

Hi all,

I'm trying to access (get/set) for Brush Settings' Lock features as following yellow rectangle part.

Are these accessible (get/set) from script?

The reason I'd like to access is protecting value changes on Opacity, Flow, Smoothing, Strength, Exposure on brush value by script.

Current code is get and reset following green part. But red part gets reset and I'll need work on.

It seems when yellow part are "protected", it seems no get reset by above (opacity, flow, ...) changes.

#original purpose was just changing opacity, etc, but got reset issue and trying to avoid.

There seems not recorded by ScriptListner and regular Actions.

I also searched around exported getter.xml from Xtools' GetterDemo.jsx file.

xtools

But I could not find related properties.

[r-bin]

It's not entirely clear what you are looking for.
Look at the objects with identifiers

charIDToTypeID("prVr")

charIDToTypeID("opVr")

charIDToTypeID("szVr")

stringIDToTypeID("angleDynamics")

stringIDToTypeID("roundnessDynamics")

Maybe it will help

[Naoki-Hada]

r-bin​

Thank you very much for tips.

> It's not entirely clear what you are looking for.

Main purpose is increment/decrements brush values on UI for Opacity, Flow, Exposure, and Strength as similar the code you provided on following thread for Brush's Hardness.

I tried to apply similar way to Opacity, Flow, Exposure, and Strength.

But it did not work well with 2 following issues.

1) Brush Settings' Checkboxes get reset (green rectangle area of original post above)

2) Brush Settings Details get reset (red rectangle area of original post above)

I think this is descriptors structure is different and reset unset properties to default.

One finding is that if the Brush Setting's Lock Icon is locked (yellow area on original post) , it does not get effected by resetting.

But Opacity, Flow, Exposure setting get effected.

So I tried to lock the setting before set Opacity etc values.

The object properties seems not contain the Lock icon values.

#include Humanizer-0.2.jsx
//https://github.com/jardicc/ActionManagerHumanizer
// modefied code from https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2406614
function test(value) {
    try {
        var ar = new ActionReference();
        ar.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( "Prpr" ), stringIDToTypeID( "tool" ) );
        ar.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );
        var desc1 = executeActionGet(ar);
        //$.writeln(Humanizer.descriptorToJsonString (desc1));
        var desc2 = desc1.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("currentToolOptions"));
        //$.writeln(Humanizer.descriptorToJsonString (desc2));
        var desc3 = desc2.getObjectValue(charIDToTypeID("prVr"));
        $.writeln("prVr");
        $.writeln(Humanizer.descriptorToJsonString(desc3));
        var desc4 = desc2.getObjectValue(charIDToTypeID("opVr"));
        $.writeln("opVr");
        $.writeln(Humanizer.descriptorToJsonString(desc4));
        var desc5 = desc2.getObjectValue(charIDToTypeID("szVr"));
        $.writeln("szVr");
        $.writeln(Humanizer.descriptorToJsonString(desc5));
        var desc6 = desc2.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("angleDynamics"));
        $.writeln("angleDynamics");
        $.writeln(Humanizer.descriptorToJsonString(desc6));
        var desc7 = desc2.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("roundnessDynamics"));
        $.writeln("roundnessDynamics");
        $.writeln(Humanizer.descriptorToJsonString(desc7));
} catch (e) {
        alert("EXCEPTION: " + arguments.callee.name + "(): " + e);
    }
}
test(88);

Result

prVr
{"$bVTy":0.0,"$fStp":25.0,"_obj":"$brVr","jitter":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":0.0},"minimum":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":0.0}}
opVr
{"$bVTy":0.0,"$fStp":25.0,"_obj":"$brVr","jitter":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":0.0},"minimum":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":0.0}}
szVr
{"$bVTy":0.0,"$fStp":25.0,"_obj":"$brVr","jitter":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":44.0},"minimum":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":0.0}}
angleDynamics
{"$bVTy":0.0,"$fStp":25.0,"_obj":"$brVr","jitter":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":42.0},"minimum":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":0.0}}
roundnessDynamics
{"$bVTy":0.0,"$fStp":25.0,"_obj":"$brVr","jitter":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":39.0},"minimum":{"_unit":"percentUnit","_value":0.0}}

Thank you,

Naoki

[r-bin · Accepted solution]

OK. I seem to understand what you want. Try this function which can set 6 parameters, if given, without resetting any others.
What is Strength, Exposure and did not understand.

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

function set_brush(sz, hd, sp, op, fl, sm)

    {

    try

        {

        var r = new ActionReference();

        r.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( "Prpr" ), stringIDToTypeID( "tool" ) );

        r.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("capp"), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );

        var ret = executeActionGet(r);

        var options = ret.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("currentToolOptions"));           

        var tool = ret.getEnumerationType(stringIDToTypeID("tool"));

        var brush = options.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("brush"));           

        if (op != undefined) options.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("opacity"), op);

        if (fl != undefined) options.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("flow"), fl);

        if (sm != undefined && sp != 0)

            {                 

            options.putInteger( stringIDToTypeID ("smooth"), sm );

            options.putDouble( stringIDToTypeID ("smoothingValue"), Math.round (sm/100*255) );

            }

        if (sz != undefined) brush.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Dmtr" ), charIDToTypeID( "#Pxl" ), sz );

        if (hd != undefined) brush.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Hrdn" ), charIDToTypeID( "#Prc" ), hd );

        if (sp == 0)

            {

            brush.putBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( "interfaceIconFrameDimmed" ), false);

            }

        else if (sp != undefined)

            {

            brush.putBoolean( stringIDToTypeID( "interfaceIconFrameDimmed" ), true);

            brush.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Spcn" ), charIDToTypeID( "#Prc" ), sp );

            }

        options.putObject( stringIDToTypeID( "brush" ), stringIDToTypeID( "null" ), brush );

        var r = new ActionReference();

        r.putClass( tool );

        var desc = new ActionDescriptor();

        desc.putReference( stringIDToTypeID( "null" ), r );

        desc.putObject( stringIDToTypeID( "to" ), stringIDToTypeID( "null" ), options );

        executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "set" ), desc, DialogModes.NO );

        }

    catch (e) { alert(e)  }

    }

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Actually, I have CS6 and I can only change the parameters of the Brush object, and I can not change the opacity and other parameters due to an error in Photoshop.

With the locks, the question is open. If there is a lock, then the parameter through the script can not be changed. I found several identifiers that the photoshop understands:

stringIDToTypeID("smoothingLock")

stringIDToTypeID("brushTipDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("scatterDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("textureInteractionLock")

stringIDToTypeID("dualBrushLock")

stringIDToTypeID("colorDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("brushPoseLock")

stringIDToTypeID("noiseLock")

stringIDToTypeID("wetEdgesLock")

stringIDToTypeID("paintDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("repeatLock")

stringIDToTypeID("strokeStyleScaleLock")

stringIDToTypeID("protectTextureLock")

But I do not know where and how they can be applied so far.

p.s. How do you insert code with line numbering?

[Naoki-Hada]

r-bin​

Thank you very much for the code and explanation again.

The code seems working great without resetting.

I'll do full test later.

What is Strength, Exposure and did not understand.

Strength is for Blur Tool, Sharpen Tool and Smudge Tool support, but API property is same as Flow.

Exposure is for Dudge Tool and Burn Tool.

I think these are legacy functions before CC (or even before CS).

stringIDToTypeID("smoothingLock")

stringIDToTypeID("brushTipDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("scatterDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("textureInteractionLock")

stringIDToTypeID("dualBrushLock")

stringIDToTypeID("colorDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("brushPoseLock")

stringIDToTypeID("noiseLock")

stringIDToTypeID("wetEdgesLock")

stringIDToTypeID("paintDynamicsLock")

stringIDToTypeID("repeatLock")

stringIDToTypeID("strokeStyleScaleLock")

stringIDToTypeID("protectTextureLock")

It looks like the Brush Settings lock icons.

p.s. How do you insert code with line numbering?

It show up after click on "use advanced editor" on right side.

I found some where in the forum, but I could not find now.

It was recommended to pick "Plain". But I don't remember why.

Thank you very much,

Naoki

[Jarda Bereza]

Check this:

[Jarda Bereza]

My observations are that you probably can set everything except locking. I am unable to even read data about locking.

#include Humanizer-0.2.jsx
//https://github.com/jardicc/ActionManagerHumanizer  
var referenceObject = {
    "null": {
        "_ref": [
            {
                "_property": "tool",
                "_ref": "property"
            }
            ,{
                "_enum": "ordinal",
                "_ref": "application",
                "_value": "targetEnum"
            }
        ]
    }
};
var toolSettings = Humanizer.getObject(referenceObject).currentToolOptions;
toolSettings.mode._value = "screen";
toolSettings.brush.roundness._value = 50;
toolSettings.flow = 22;
toolSettings.opacity = 33;
toolSettings.smoothing = true;
toolSettings.smooth = 11;
toolSettings.noise = true;
toolSettings.useTipDynamics = true;
// Shape Dynamics must be turned before. Otherwise shape dynamics properties doesn't exists here so you should define all of them
// So maybe you would like to divide set brush in two steps if dynamics is turned off.
toolSettings.$szVr.jitter._value = 88; // Shape dynamics - size Jitter
toolSettings.$szVr.$bVTy = 2; // Shape dynamics - size Jitter controled by Pen pressure
var r = new ActionReference();
r.putClass( stringIDToTypeID("paintbrushTool")); // I think you need change this for different tool
var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
desc.putReference( stringIDToTypeID( "null" ), r );
desc.putObject( stringIDToTypeID( "to" ), stringIDToTypeID( "null" ), Humanizer.objectToDescriptor(toolSettings)[1] );
executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "set" ), desc, DialogModes.NO );

[r-bin]

What do I think about locks. You can use the "reset_tool ()" function after you receive the "currentToolOptions" descriptor. It will reset all locks. After that you can change only the necessary required parameters and call the "set" command as usual.

function reset_tool()
    {
    try {
        var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( "Prpr" ), charIDToTypeID( "CrnT" ) );
        ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID( "capp" ), charIDToTypeID( "Ordn" ), charIDToTypeID( "Trgt" ) );
        desc.putReference( charIDToTypeID( "null" ), ref );
        executeAction( charIDToTypeID( "Rset" ), desc, DialogModes.NO );
        }
    catch (e) {}
    }

[r-bin]

I was wrong. (

The reset_tool () function does not clear locks.

So far I've found that

executeAction (stringIDToTypeID ("clearBrushControls"), undefined, DialogModes.NO)

clears the checkboxes of the brush, but not locks (