hi everyone, is there a function that closes / hides the panel in UXP? in cep I used this function: CSInterface.closeExtension ()

You can run some menu items to toggle panel visibility. You can use Photoshop API to your own plugins by ID… but that is about it. I am not sure what Adobe is afraid of. If changing panels visibility sounds scary… why not add new permission into a manifest file?

oh of course, I should try the menu items toggling — I’ve used a similar thing with AM. Thanks Jarda!

Hm, however some tests proved that it could more complicated than I thought. “Insert menu item” in the Actions panel doesn’t add any steps when I try to insert the UXP panel. The Alchemist also doesn’t seem to catch the event of toggling the panel on/off… I tried to put the name of my panel into …

You are not missing anything. This works only for built-in menu items and panels. For non-built-in menu items you could try command ID but this one will be dynamic and change after every PS restart.

Command ID… I don’t think I’ve heard of that and googling didn’t help much… What’s command ID and how do I get it and then how do I use it :sweat_smile:? Maybe I can get it on the start of the panel, store it, and use it to toggle the UXP panel…

[image] kritskiy: What’s command ID and how do I get it and then how do I use it :sweat_smile:? This rabbit hole is deep and you would not like the crazy world inside if you have to work with negative IDs. You would rather take a “blue pill” and settle with the conclusion that it can’t be do…

Not sure if this would help in your case, but I like to try and think of workarounds. What if you made the “panel” an invisible panel that opened up a dialog with your panel stuff? Then you would have control of your sudo panel dialog.

getting the command ID on the 1st launch of the panel and then using it to toggle the panel seems to work! at least for now… :slight_smile: thanks!

kritskiy I’ve tried them all but it doesn’t work because it always gives me a negative id value, it only works at that moment, then when you open photoshop again it doesn’t work anymore or it opens another panel.

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