I’m use the core module to redraw the PS canvas when necessary in my plugin, but is there a way to do the inverse? To block the drawing of the document / canvas while performing an action? My plugins selects channels and then layers on RGB channel and that change of selection redraws the canvas and…

I don’t think so, it has been discussed before but there wasn’t any solution of disabling it. [image] Is there any way to turn off document refresh while code makes changes? UXP Plugin API I just tried disabling the home screen manually, and it does look as if you need to …

You can try to put as many items into single batchPlay as possible in single execAsModal and hope for the best. But I think some actions are not well implemented and without redrawing canvas or updating menu items… it might not work correctly. You could also try imaging API… it can do selections.

Opposite of core.redrawDocument()?

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JasonM December 21, 2024, 4:36am 2

I don’t think so, it has been discussed before but there wasn’t any solution of disabling it.

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Opposite of core.redrawDocument()?

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