change value in many steps during action playback

[Ninanoki]

i've created an action that selects color range many times with fuziness: 15. i'd like to change this value 15 to any other ex.20. right now i have to manually change it many times.

 

[IamSam]

Have you tried editing the action?

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/photoshop-actions/editing-an-action/

 

[MrToM]

You will probably need to script that with a loop for the values you require.

Actions will allow value changes but you need to set it to display the dialog box and manually type in the value....this is what I assume you have already done although it doesn't show in your image.

Regards.
MrToM.

 

[Ninanoki]

yes Tom, i've already tried that with a dialog but there are too many occurences to do this that way. i will search for the script examples.thanks.

 

[MrToM]

I doubt you'll find a script for this exact action and I did really mean for you to write your own but whatever, good luck.

Regards.
MrToM.

 

[Paul MR]

What you could do is split your action into several actions that can be called from a script, here is a sample of code that should accomplish what you are after..

main();
function main(){
if(!documents.length) return;
var colour =new SolidColor();
//do the first part of shade analysids
app.doAction('ShadeAnalysis1', 'Default Actions');
//set the colour you want to select in hex
colour.rgb.hexValue = 'ff0000';
//select the colour range , fuzziness, inverse(true/false)
selectColourRange(colour,15,false);
//do the next part of the analysis
app.doAction('ShadeAnalysis2', 'Default Actions');
//select a different colour ??
//colour.rgb.hexValue = 'ff00ff';
//select the colour range with a different fuzziness
selectColourRange(colour,20,false);
//do another section of the analysis
app.doAction('ShadeAnalysis3', 'Default Actions');
selectColourRange(colour,25,false);
//repeat the above steps as required
};
function selectColourRange(clr, fuzz, inverse) { 
var desc = new ActionDescriptor(); 
desc.putInteger(charIDToTypeID("Fzns"), fuzz); 
var mnDesc = new ActionDescriptor();
mnDesc.putDouble(charIDToTypeID("Lmnc"), clr.lab.l); 
mnDesc.putDouble(charIDToTypeID("A   "), clr.lab.a); 
mnDesc.putDouble(charIDToTypeID("B   "), clr.lab.b); 
desc.putObject(charIDToTypeID("Mnm "), charIDToTypeID("LbCl"), mnDesc); 
var mxDesc = new ActionDescriptor(); 
mxDesc.putDouble(charIDToTypeID("Lmnc"), clr.lab.l); 
mxDesc.putDouble(charIDToTypeID("A   "), clr.lab.a); 
mxDesc.putDouble(charIDToTypeID("B   "), clr.lab.b); 
desc.putObject(charIDToTypeID("Mxm "), charIDToTypeID("LbCl"), mxDesc); 
if (inverse) { 
desc.putBoolean(charIDToTypeID("Invr"), inverse); 
} 
try{
executeAction( charIDToTypeID('ClrR'), desc, DialogModes.NO );
}catch(e){}
};