Watching Events

Question

If you have xtools, here's a little script that you can register with the Script Events Manager on whatever events you're interested in. Or even Everything if you want.
For every event that it sees, it writes an XML representation of that event to the ESTK JS console.
// LogEvents.jsx
// $Id: LogEvents.jsx,v 1.1 2010/06/04 16:24:29 anonymous Exp $
// Copyright: (c)2010, xbytor
// License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
// Contact: [email protected]
//@show include
//@includepath "/c/Program Files/Adobe/xtools;/Developer/xtools"
//@include "xlib/stdlib.js"
//@include "xlib/Stream.js"
//@include "xlib/PSConstants.js"
//@include "xlib/Action.js"
//@include "xlib/ActionXML.jsx"
function _main(args) {
  if (!args) {
    return;
  try {
    var event = <event/>;
    if (args[1]) {
      event.id = id2char(args[1]);
    if (args[0]) {
      event.descriptor = args[0].toXML();
    $.writeln(event.toXMLString());
  } catch (e) {
    alert(e + '@' + e.line);
try {
  _main(arguments);
} catch (e) {
"LogEvents.jsx";
// EOF
This is the XML it produces for Rectangular Marquee Tool to select a region.
<event>
  <id>Set</id>
  <ActionDescriptor count="2">
    <Reference symname="Null" sym="null" count="1">
      <Property symname="Channel" sym="Chnl" desiredClassString="Channel" desiredClass="Chnl" propertyName="selection" propertySym="selection"/>
    </Reference>
    <Object symname="To" sym="T   " objectTypeString="Rectangle" objectType="Rctn" count="4">
      <UnitDouble symname="Top" sym="Top " unitDoubleTypeString="Distance" unitDoubleType="#Rlt" unitDoubleValue="140"/>
      <UnitDouble symname="Left" sym="Left" unitDoubleTypeString="Distance" unitDoubleType="#Rlt" unitDoubleValue="204"/>
      <UnitDouble symname="Bottom" sym="Btom" unitDoubleTypeString="Distance" unitDoubleType="#Rlt" unitDoubleValue="382"/>
      <UnitDouble symname="Right" sym="Rght" unitDoubleTypeString="Distance" unitDoubleType="#Rlt" unitDoubleValue="370"/>
    </Object>
  </ActionDescriptor>
</event>
This only works in CS4 and CS5 because of the way I'm generating the XML. If you need to do this in CS3, you would have to change
//@include "xlib/ActionXML.jsx"
to
//@include "xlib/xml/atn2xml.jsx"
-X

Answer 1

ActionXML.jsx is new so it's not yet part of the zip on sourceforge. But it is part of the cvs so if you have a cvs client you can get it that way.
If you use xtools I woould recommend getting and setting up a cvs as that is the best way to keep up with updates and bug fixes. Sourceforge has details. I use TortoiseCVS but that is Windows only. I don't know what to recomend for Mac uses.