Regarding eventOpen

Hi All,



I am using the Listener.log file's Output to create a Automation Plugin Which open a document(Just Like File-%26gt;Open Menu). But I am Providing the file name in the openFile function which I have created based on listener.log file.



sPSActionControl-%26gt;Play(%26amp;result, eventOpen, desc, plugInDialogSilent);



But the problem is When I use the above code in openFile function. It does nothing. But an error is returned on this line.



When I use the Code below

sPSActionControl-%26gt;Play(%26amp;result, eventOpen, desc, plugInDialogDisplay);



It opens a File open Dialog Box to select a file and then open that document which I have selected in the dialog box and Plugin is working very fine.



But I don't want to open the 'File open Dialog box' and Instead my file whose name I have already supplied in the function Should be Open.



Does anyone have any idea about that?



Thanks and Regards,

Sunil Kumar
Regarding eventOpen
There a two points you have to regard here: sPSAction-Play(...) tells Photoshop to invoke an action (in your case eventOpen), the desc variable contains the parameters for that action and the last variable

(plugInDialogSilent/plugInDialogPlay) tells Photoshop if it should show a dialog or not when invoking the action (in this case: a file-open dialog). Now, you either show a ''select file'' dialog in which case you don't have to fill the desc variable or you have to fill the desc variable with the file-name using ''sPSActionDescriptor-%26gt;PutAlias(...)'' as shown in the code below:

(You can also fill the desc and show a dialog in which case the file-name in desc is ignored (at least I think so))



SPErr OpenFile(char * filepath)

{

SPErr error = kSPNoError;

Handle tempAlias = NULL;

PIActionDescriptor result = NULL;

PIActionDescriptor desc = NULL;

//Handle aliasValue = NULL;



#if Macintosh

FullPathToAlias(filepath, tempAlias);

#else

size_t size = strlen(filepath);

tempAlias = sPSHandle-%26gt;New(size+1);

if (tempAlias != NULL)

{

GlobalLock(tempAlias);

strncpy(*tempAlias, filepath, strlen(filepath)+1);

GlobalUnlock(tempAlias);

}

#endif

error = sPSActionDescriptor-%26gt;Make(%26amp;desc);

if (error) goto returnError;



error = sPSActionDescriptor-%26gt;PutAlias(desc, keyNull, tempAlias);

if (error) goto returnError;



error = sPSActionControl-%26gt;Play(%26amp;result, eventOpen, desc, plugInDialogSilent);
Regarding eventOpen
Hi Marc,



Thanks a lot for your help. ? I was using the similar code what you have provided but it was not working.



Now I find the problem. I was passing the wrong path in the string(i.e ''C:\Test.jpg'').



The Correct path is (''C:\\Test.jpg'')



Thanks once again



Regards,

Sunil Kumar