Changing RulerUnits via BatchPlay not working

Photoshop UXP Plugin API
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I’m trying to change the rulerUnits via BatchPlay but nothing is happeninig, this is the code I’m using:

require('photoshop').core.executeAsModal(function () {
  try {
    batchPlay(
      [
        {
          _obj: "set",
          _target: [
            {
              _ref: "property",
              _property: "unitsPrefs"
            },
            {
              _ref: "application",
              _enum: "ordinal",
              _value: "targetEnum"
            }
          ],
          to: {
            _obj: "unitsPrefs",
            rulerUnits: {
              _enum: "rulerUnits",
              _value: "rulerPixels"
            }
          },
          _options: {
            dialogOptions: "dontDisplay"
          }
        }
      ], {
      synchronousExecution: false,
      modalBehavior: "fail"
    });
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
});

This doesn’t even logs an error, so I don’t know what is happening. I saw that the RulerUnits constant is not available on the DOM yet so I tried with Batchplay to change it but nothing is happeninig.

Am I doing something wrong?

I appreciate your help.

2

Hi,
it’s in the DOM now, see the Changelog.

Try this:

const photoshop = require('photoshop');
const app = require('photoshop').app; 
const executeAsModal = photoshop.core.executeAsModal;
const constants = require('photoshop').constants; 

// You need a modal state to change the rulers
await executeAsModal(async () => {
    app.preferences.unitsAndRulers.rulerUnits = constants.RulerUnits.MILLIMETERS
}, { commandName: "Changing ruler units" })

HTH,
Davide

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Hello Davide!

Thank you very much for your answer it works now!

I’m very happy it has been updated!

I don’t explain myself how in my VS Code doesn’t updates this specific constant colors as “constants.BitsPerChannelType” or “constants.ElementPlacement” does. I actually went to the folder:

C:/Users/USER/AppData/Local/Microsoft/TypeScript/4.8/node_modules/@types/photoshop/dom/Constants

and opened the “constants.ts” file but it was not updated there but some how it works, how is it possible?

Kind regards,

4

The process of updating types for Photoshop is slower than it should be. Check frequently the changelog and the API reference, which is always up-to-date with the latest additions.

Davide

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