Hide Marching Ants

Photoshop UXP Plugin API
1

I have created a BatchPlay which basically makes a selection.

This works great, the selection is made and the marching ants are shown.

I have also created a BatchPlay to Hide the Marching Ants shown below

    function HideAnts() {

   const batchPlay = require("photoshop").action.batchPlay;
   const result = batchPlay(
      [
         {
            _obj: "select",
            _target: [
               {
                  _ref: "$Mn",
                  _enum: "$MnIt",
                  _value: "toggleShowExtras",
               },
            ]
         }
      ], {
      "synchronousExecution": false,
      "modalBehavior": "fail"
   });
}

Issue:
I want the Marching Ants to be hidden after the selection has been made.

I have tried calling the HideAnts() function after the BatchPlay has made the selection but the Ants never seem to hide

Ian

1 Like
2

That’s literally the first time I’ve heard the expression “Marching Ants”, didn’t know that this was the term for it :sweat_smile:
What does you full code sequence look like? The function you posted is async, maybe there are some race conditions that mess up the order in which the calls finish?

3

For the moment, I am hiding them using the Select - Deselect Option which has go me past a hurdle.

I may revisit this further down the line.

4

You might want to try this piece of code to toggle selection edges visibility:

const batchPlay = require("photoshop").action.batchPlay;

    await batchPlay(
    [
       {
          "_obj": "select",
          "_target": [
             {
                "_ref": "menuItemClass",
                "_enum": "menuItemType",
                "_value": "toggleEdges"
             }
          ],
          "_isCommand": true,
          "_options": {
             "dialogOptions": "dontDisplay"
          }
       }
    ],{
       "synchronousExecution": false,
       "modalBehavior": "fail"
    });