Hi, Is there a way to run extendscript (jsx) code from a uxp (js) file? I’ve been running into a LOT of holes and major flaws/issues with uxp that I KNOW for a fact I could do in extendscript which makes uxp almost unusable…

If there is a way to do that then it will be most likely removed. So advice would be don’t mix it together. Could you please name some of those flaws so it could be fixed? :slight_smile:

[image] Can i run javascript.jsx file using UXP button UXP Plugin API red_circle Do not do this if you plan on distributing your plugin to others. There is no guarantee that plugins that run JSX like this will continue to work in the future, and your plugin may be removed …

Heyo, I’m aware that the plan is to remove CEP but since I’m in a studio setting we can lock version if we actually need to make that not happen. Docs feel like they are lacking for starters. The manifest 5 doc saying fullAccess: Allows the plugin to inspect, modify, and delete files to which yo…

To handle automated saving for plugins my approach is to build a settings page (I usually render it in a dialog triggered from the flyout menu), which has a file picker to define a root working folder. I then create a persistent token with the result and write it to a .json file in the plugin storag…

So that would work but I do really need to be able to save without intervention from the user as we need to make sure naming conventions are respected and that the psd/output files are named explicitly. If I make it so a user can choose a folder or even a file name it can break a lot of pipeline tha…

Thinking out loud here, but as you know the output path in advance you could compare the result of the file picker against it and throw an error if they don’t match and disable any damaging functionality.

I guess that could work but again, it’s very not ideal as it hinders speed, makes it so users have to click/hit enter etc. for no reason and in our case will have to manually go find the folder we want to save to rather than it just happening…it’s TERRIBLE ux something as used as PS… More examples …

I agree that it’s far from ideal for enterprise development, but it can produce the result you want. There was talk at a previous Adobe Developer Day (and I think here on the forum too) about less restrictive permissions for enterprise but nothing concrete. I’m not sure you fully understand my proc…

The path “can” change depending on what we’re exporting. I’m trying to get this sorted for multiple tools that are either being built or will be need to be built. In some cases the user will need to just save the output beside the psd, some will need to save it a folder up and into a sibling folder…

If you have a persistent parent folder token then you don’t need new folder picker dialogs for any nested subfolder. So if you would do it for e.g. C: drive root folder then anything inside would be free of user intervention. This is due to security since any JSX file could in theory read anything …

Run extendscript from uxp

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Karmalakas September 12, 2022, 10:07am 3

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