Scripting Pixelbender filters

Question

Hi,
did anyone had success in scripting a pixelbender filter in Photoshop CS5 with ExtendScript?
I tried it on Windows 7 64bit with the 64bit Version of Photoshop CS5 and the v2.1 of the Pixelbender Plugin.
I generated the scripting listener code:
var idPbPl = charIDToTypeID( "PbPl" );
    var desc5 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var idKnNm = charIDToTypeID( "KnNm" );
    desc5.putString( idKnNm, "BWSepia" );
    var idGpuY = charIDToTypeID( "GpuY" );
    desc5.putBoolean( idGpuY, false );
    var idLIWy = charIDToTypeID( "LIWy" );
    desc5.putBoolean( idLIWy, true );
    var idFPth = charIDToTypeID( "FPth" );
    desc5.putString( idFPth, "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Pixel Bender Files\BWSepia.pbk" );
    var idPNaa = charIDToTypeID( "PNaa" );
    desc5.putString( idPNaa, "bwSepiaIntensity" );
    var idPTaa = charIDToTypeID( "PTaa" );
    desc5.putInteger( idPTaa, 0 );
    var idPFaa = charIDToTypeID( "PFaa" );
    desc5.putDouble( idPFaa, 0.500000 );
executeAction( idPbPl, desc5, DialogModes.NO );
If I execute it, photoshop just crashes (a window claims, that it is searching for a problem).
The same filter executes fine manually and recorded as an action.
It is also very interesting, that the only scriptable Filter seems to be Adobe's OilPaint filter, which is build inside photoshop.
Thanks for any hints...
Regards,
Markus

Answer 1

Hi Kevin,
yes, this may be a first hint to the problem. But what can I do?
I tried several thing in the last hours, but no success in getting the scripting running.
I tried to load the pbks from another location, but still photoshop crashes.
On my laptop with WinXP and CS4 Extended the same kernels can be scripted, but there I run into image size problems (texture size).
On the new Windows7 machine I only run CS5 Standard. I hope the graphic card isn't the problem, I bought one of the supported ones only for this case (NVidia GeForce GTS 250).
I can't tell you whether it worked with the previous version of the pixelbender plugin, because I don't know how the reactivate it.
I hope that someone from the developement team will read this post and tell me what information they need to find out the reason. I searched for a crash report but didn't succeed. I am really interested in getting this issue solved, because writing the filters I now want to script took me several weeks.
Regards,
Markus