How Bridge communicates with third party applications?

Question

Hi,
Is it possible to communicate between Adobe Bridge and a third party application using Bridge SDK?
I want to learn how Bridge can communicate with other application? Bridge SDK have samples that explain how Bridge communicates with other Adobe applications like Photoshop and Indesign. Can anyone guide me or provide me a sample where Bridge communicates with a third party application?
Thanks.

Answer 1

As an example, this shows one way of getting a list of selected files from Bridge via Photoshop using C#
using System;
using System.Collections;
using ps = Photoshop;
namespace getBridgeFiles
    class Program
        static void Main(string[] args)
            ps.ApplicationClass app = new ps.ApplicationClass();
            String Code = "var fileList;"+
"if ( BridgeTalk.isRunning( 'bridge' ) ) {"+
"var bt = new BridgeTalk();"+
"bt.target = 'bridge';"+
"bt.body = 'var theFiles = photoshop.getBridgeFileListForAutomateCommand();theFiles.toSource();';"+
"bt.onResult = function( inBT ) { fileList = eval( inBT.body ); }"+
"bt.onError = function( inBT ) { fileList = new Array(); }"+
"bt.send(8);"+
"bt.pump();"+
"var timeOutAt = ( new Date() ).getTime() + 5000;"+
"var currentTime = ( new Date() ).getTime();"+
"while ( ( currentTime < timeOutAt ) && ( undefined == fileList ) ) {"+
"bt.pump();"+
"$.sleep( 100 );"+
"currentTime = ( new Date() ).getTime();"+
"}}"+
"if ( undefined == fileList ) {"+
"fileList = new Array();}"+
"fileList = decodeURI(fileList.toString());";
            String RC =  app.DoJavaScript(Code, null, null);
            ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
            list.AddRange(RC.Split(new char[] { ',' }));
            for (int index = 0; index < list.Count; index++){
                Console.WriteLine(list[index]);
            Console.ReadLine();