[PS] AS3 suspendHistory() bug?

Hello,
I can be wrong (and that's a real possibility ), but there's something bizarre happening with CS SDK and the Photoshop suspendHistory() method working in ActionScript.
According to the API documentation, the parameters are:
historyString:String (String)The string to use for the history state.
javaScriptString:String — (String) A string of JavaScript code to execute during the suspension of history.
Currently I'm constantly getting this "Error: General Photoshop error occurred. This functionality may not be available in this version of Photoshop"
An excerpt of the code is as follows:
app.activeDocument.suspendHistory("Private stuff!", "app.activeDocument.duplicate()")
The Javascript string should be ok....
I would have liked to have an ActionScript:String instead (it'll be quite annoying to step in and out, AS3 and JS)... so just to try, I've substituted it with "var myDoc:Document = app.activeDocument.duplicate()" with no luck.
Could someone else try to test this method, please?
Thanks in advance,
Davide

The workaround I've found is to bounce from AS3 to JS to AS3.
My AS3 function calls a JS function within an embedded jsx (like in Zak's cookbook); this one contains a suspendHistory() method which in turn, calls another function back in the AS3 code.
Not ideal, but doable.
David, should I add the suspendHistory bug in the "CS SDK bugs" topic?
Thanks,
Davide

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-------------------------------Sample Code
Begin------------------------------------
//omnidogg - Jan 18,2008
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// 1. ComboBox change event does bubble up to parent
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// 2. Dynamically sized movieclip's height property displays
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import fl.controls.CheckBox;
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-------------------------------Sample Code
End--------------------------------------
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after you've
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is this a bug in Flash AS3 ?
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If you need an XML you can make your own to test this using the fallowing structer or just use this.
---------------------------- XML Bellow ------------------------------
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-------------------------------- AS3 Bellow -----------------------------
package {
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    import flash.events.*;
    import flash.net.*;
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gradeText.setTextFormat(incorrectanswerformat);
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introListener calling
Call Wakeup: answer is 7 7 New sleepID: 2
Wakeup calling: Cleared 2
Call Wakeup: answer is 7 7 New sleepID: 4
Wakeup calling: Cleared 4
Call Wakeup: answer is 7 7 New sleepID: 6
Wakeup calling: Cleared 6
Call Wakeup: answer is 4 4 New sleepID: 8
Wakeup calling: Cleared 8
Call Wakeup: answer is 4 4 New sleepID: 10
Wakeup calling: Cleared 10
Call Wakeup: answer is 9 9 New sleepID: 12
Wakeup calling: Cleared 12
Call Wakeup: answer is 9 9 New sleepID: 14
Wakeup calling: Cleared 14
Call Wakeup: answer is 4 4 New sleepID: 16
Call Wakeup: answer is 4 4 New sleepID: 17
Wakeup calling: Cleared 17
Call Wakeup: answer is 6 6 New sleepID: 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19
Wakeup calling: Cleared 19

To all,
I understand the insistence to clear before setting, but I
have not figured out how to get clearing and setting into the same
function. I am currently using a flag to avoid the race condition
that my code, not AS3, has created. This is what I am rethinking.
My current flow is like this.
1) generate a NewNumber()
2) check keys until correct number entered using KeyEvent.
Then set an interval to wait until the student has had time to
consider the correctness of this answer and to play the audio
feedback.
3) Interval timeout triggers WakeUp which clears the interval
then generates a NewNumber.
Only problem was, kids kept entering keys AFTER they had
answered correctly which, before my using a flag, was triggering
new setIntervals and the problem above.
I do not see how I can have my KeyEvent handler clear the
interval or how I can have my WakeUp functions set the interval.
They are two distinct functions.
If I do not clear the interval in WakeUp a long delay in
answering will trigger another NewNumber.
If I set it in WakeUp then I don't give the student enough
time to answer.
If I do not set it in keydown then I don't know how to ensure
they have time to see and hear the feedback
I can't clear it in KeyDownFunc because the kid may not push
a key and allow WakeUP to create a NewNumber()
I hope my brain isn't frying.
I do appreciate the continued effort in helping me and help
on this forum has improved my coding almost as much as if I had
someone watching over my shoulder. LOL, that would be
instantaneous.

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Is there a known bug for the following case?
Case:
A project I'm working on doesn't seem to handle font embedding correctly when the font is added dynamically using actionscript. When I test my movie it does not display the embedded font at all. Curious about this is, that when I create an empty project using the same code and then embed the font and test the movie it displays the font without any problem.
Sometimes a reboot of the machine I'm working on will suffice to make the embedding work again, but sometimes is not all the time. So I was wondering if there was a memory related bug that causes this behavior. If so, is there any sight on a solution for this bug? It's more than annoying to reboot eight times a day, just to test a movie.
How did I embed the font:
1. Create a "New Font" in the Library, set the properties and give it a classname.
2. Using actionscript to embed the font in a dynamically generated TextField.
package{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.text.Font;
import flash.display.text.TextFormat;
import flash.display.text.TextField;
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var myTextFormat:TextFormat;
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myFont = new Font1();
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Do

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small_book.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fl_ClickToDrag_6);
// when the mouse button is clicked...
function fl_ClickToDrag_6(event:MouseEvent):void
    small_book.startDrag();
    big_book_mc.x = small_book.x;///
    big_book_mc.y = small_book.y;///-----> Makes the big book snap to the lil one when clicked.
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, fl_ReleaseToDrop_6);
// when the mouse button is released...;
function fl_ReleaseToDrop_6(event:MouseEvent):void
    small_book.stopDrag();
    big_book_mc.x = small_book.x;///
    big_book_mc.y = small_book.y;///-----> Makes the big book snap to the lil one when the mouse button is released.
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, dragFn);
// if the mouse is currently dragging....;
function dragFn(event:MouseEvent):void
    small_book.startDrag();
    big_book_mc.x = small_book.x;///
    big_book_mc.y = small_book.y;///-----> The big book follows while the mouse is dragging.
// the small book is now draggable and the big book snaps to it.

your stage listeners should be added in the mousedown listener functions and then removed in the mouseup listener functions.
and just to clarify, your small book starts dragging no matter where there is a mousedown?

It seems a bug of as3 when using BitmapData.draw for a shape which is masked with another shape

This is the code of my document class:
public class FirstMask extends Sprite
private var maskedShape:Shape;
public function FirstMask() {
   init();
private function init():void {
   maskedShape = new Shape();
   addChild(maskedShape);
   maskedShape.graphics.beginFill(0xff0000);
   maskedShape.graphics.drawRect(0,0,80,80);
   maskedShape.graphics.endFill();
   var maskShape:Sprite=new Sprite();
   maskShape.graphics.beginFill(0x000000);
   maskShape.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 20,20);
   maskShape.graphics.endFill();
   maskedShape.mask=maskShape;
   var bmd:BitmapData=new BitmapData(80,80);
   bmd.draw(maskedShape);
When I do not use the bmd to draw the maskedShape,everything is ok.When I do that,it seems the maskShape is auto-transformed including its position and size.As a result,I can not see the maskedShape unless I adjusted the IE size.Can anybody tell me why?
ps:If I set this.stage.align=StageAlign.TOP_LEFT; I can see the small scaled maskedShape.If I add the maskedShape to the displaylist ,everythis is ok.But Why drawing has the effect on the drawn shape?

Thanks again.But the "draw" itself is all right.
After " bmd.draw(maskedShape);",I code:
   var bm:Bitmap=new Bitmap(bmd);
   bm.x=100;
   bm.y=0;
   addChild(bm);
The bm can be shown.
So to make it clear,I print the screen:
1.No"mask" No "draw" at all.
2."mask" without "draw"
3."mask"and then "draw"---the IE shows nothing
4.If I drag the IE,adjust its size,then I can see a little thing on the top-left.
confusing...
PS:If I run the code as "air application",it seems all right.

PS suspendHistory() workaround

Hello,
CS SDK 1.5 are out, and while I really like them a huge lot, the Photoshop document's method suspendHistory() in ActionScript is still bugged... sigh!
Waiting for an official fix (please, please ), I've come up with a (maybe obvious) workaround, which involves HostObject (as described by Zak Nelson in this CookBook entry) and a little tweak. Basically I bounce from AS3 to JSX and back to AS3 writing my own suspendHistory function.
If someone else is having troubles as I've had, this is possibly a viable solution to adopt.
Any suggestion to make it better: obviously welcome.
In a Controller.as class I embed a Javascript file
[ Embed (source="jsx/Bounce.jsx" , mimeType= "application/octet-stream" )]
private static var myScriptClass:Class;
Then I declare my own SuspendHistory function:
public function SuspendHistory(title:String, myFunction:String):void
   var jsxInterface:HostObject = HostObject.getRoot(HostObject.extensions[0]);
   jsxInterface.eval( new myScriptClass ().toString());
   jsxInterface.init( this );
   jsxInterface.Bounce(title,myFunction);
where title is the only History tag that will appear in the history states list, and myFunction is... the function that I'd like to call.
On the JSX side, I've a Bounce.jsx file
var asInterface = {};
function init(wrapper)
   asInterface = wrapper;
function Bounce(title, myFunction)
   var foo = "asInterface." + myFunction;
   app.activeDocument.suspendHistory (title, foo)
The Bounce function takes the very same two parameters and bounces them back to ActionScript, calling the requested function wrapped inside a (natural working) ExtendScript suspendHistory call.
Using it in the AS3 class is straightforward, and you can even forget that there's some JSX action behind the scenes:
public function run():void
   SuspendHistory("Stuff Happening", "myASFunction()");
public function myASFunction():void
   app.activeDocument.activeLayer.duplicate();
   app.activeDocument.activeLayer.duplicate(); // really fancy stuff...
The nice part is that the function called from within suspendHistory can have parameters as well (obviously, uh)
public function run():void
   var loops:uint = 5
   SuspendHistory("Stuff Happening", "myASFunction("+loops+")");
public function myASFunction(loops:uint)
   for (var i:uint = 0; i<loops; i++)
      app.activeDocument.activeLayer.duplicate();
even though to split with quotes the function code to add the parameter isn't that elegant... but as long as it works, I'm happy - and it's better than nothing.
Cheers,
Davide
Nevertheless a fix in the CSAW libraries would be better

Forgot to mention you still have to have CS5 installed on your non-compliant laptop. Wouldn't it be funny if this is a PS bug requiring a toggled bit to be set in order to render in 3D?

[PS] AS3 suspendHistory() bug?

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