AppleScript via JavaScript (doScript in Photoshop)

Question

Hi everyone,
I was looking for a way to execute AS from JS to bind my AS on hotkey.
I found a thread with this code in there:
// JavaScript
var myscr = new File('/C/1/book/my.vbs');
if (myscr.exists) {
app.doScript(myscr, ScriptLanguage.visualBasic)
do I thought that I'll create a .jsx file with this code and it'll work
var myscr = new File('/Users/macintosh/Documents/Adobe Scripts/enter.applescript');
if (myscr.exists) {
app.doScript(myscr, applescriptLanguage)
but it didn't
I fought that the problem is that doScript is from inDesign/Illustrator and tried doAction but it seems it's only for Actions.
Please explain me what am I doing wrong?
Kind regards, Sergey

Answer 1

Take a look at the documentation each of Adobe's apps differs in its scripted commands. ID has 'do script' in given language (the best of the bunch) Photoshop will let AppleScript & Visual Basic do JavaScript. Illustrator is like Photoshop except you can pass an arguments array to the command…
File.execute(); did NOT work with my quick test the calling JavaScript:
#target photoshop
var appleScript = new File('~/Desktop/Test.app');
if (appleScript.exists) appleScript.execute();
The AppleScript compiled and saved as 'Application' in on run statement…
on run
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS2"
activate
if exists document 1 then
set Doc_Ref to current document
tell Doc_Ref
set Doc_Name to name
display alert "Testing" message ¬
Doc_Name giving up after 2
end tell
else
display alert "Script Error" message ¬
"No document is open." as warning giving up after 2
end if
end tell
end run