Scripting brush strokes on smart filter mask

Hi guys, I am a complete newbie to all this so forgive me if this is a stupid question.
I am having problems when trying to record brush strokes on a smart filter mask using script listener. Is this possible? Is there some trick to it?
Cheers,
Philip

I can be wrong, but I remember somewhere on ps-script Xbytor writing about it.
ScriptingListener can't record brush strokes - afaik, according to Chris Cox, this would clog the log - but there's an "Allow tool recording" option in the Actions palette that should do the trick.
A workaround could be to record the brush into an Action, then parse the action with XTools and grab the raw data stream from the generated JS. Never attempted to try, but in principle should work.
Best
Davide

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