Bridge and Photoshop Actions

Question

I have a number of Photoshop actions that run scripts. These scripts have been brought forward from CS and work fine when run inside Photoshop CS2. They are of varying complexity, but I've tested the following with a simple script: alert ("Hello World");
When I run the actions from Bridge, via the Batch command, the file opens correctly in Photoshop and I then get an error "the command scripts is not currently available".
Why is this? Do I need to alter my scripts to run in Photoshop CS2?
Note that when I save the action as a droplet, I can drag files onto the droplet and the script is triggered correctly.
John

Answer 1

[email protected] wrote:
> Shay, that's exactly how the error arises - as a Photoshop batch there's no problem. Do try saving the action as a droplet and dropping files onto it from Bridge - it's not a perfect solution but can be a helpful workaround.
I just answered this on the PS forum and thought I'd pass this along. If I'm
wrong, I'm sure Bob will correct my analysis...
When you make a call via BridgeTalk from one application to another it uses the
scripting engine to do the communication. So when you make a call from Bridge to
PS to execute an action in PS, the script engine in PS gets fired up and
app.doAction is called to run the Action. One "feature" of PS actions and
scripting is that you can't have a script call an action which then calls a
script, which is is exactly what you are attempting to do here. You're only
workarounds at the moment are to:
1) have everything done in the action (may not be possible)
2) have everything done in a script (may be tedious)
3) have a toplevel script in PS called by Bridge which does what it can and then
invokes actions to do what most of the work, with the restriction that the
action can't turnaround and call a script.
This is not a simple bug for adobe to fix as it gets to the heart of the
Action/Scripting framework.
ciao,
-X