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Photoshop scripting: app.activeDocument is undefined

I’m trying to access current opened document in script, but it’s undefined. But i have opened document in Photoshop. Should i initialize it somehow?
Here is my code

function ProcessDocumentWithoutXML()
{  
g_rootDoc      = app.activeDocument;
g_progBar      = new ProgressBar();

if (app.activeDocument != null)
{
    ProcessLayersWithoutXML(g_rootDoc);
    alert("Done!");
} else {
    alert("Missing active document");
}
}

ProcessDocumentWithoutXML();
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Answers


  1. 0

    In order for it to work

    g_rootDoc      = app.activeDocument;

    needs to be outside the function (unless you pass in the source document to that function).

    Amended code:

    if (documents.length != 0)
{
   g_rootDoc = app.activeDocument;
   // g_progBar = new ProgressBar();  // no worky in cs2
   ProcessLayersWithoutXML(g_rootDoc);
   alert("Done!");
}
else
{
    alert("Missing active document");
}


function ProcessDocumentWithoutXML()
{  

}

ProcessDocumentWithoutXML();

function ProcessLayersWithoutXML()
{
}
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  2. 0

    If you are running photoshop in one window and running your code in ExtendedScript in other window you need to add the first line

    “#target photoshop”

    (without double marks) on your js script.

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  3. 0

    In my case the problem was caused by missed variable name:

    function fnWithError() {
  var docName = app.activeDocument.name     // <- ExtendScript Toolkit reports error here.
  ...
  ...
  var app.activeDocument.activeLayer.bounds;// <- The real error is here.
  // the code above should be:
  // var bounds = app.activeDocument.activeLayer.bounds;
}
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