![]() ![]() The software described in this document is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license. No part of this publication (whether in hardcopy or electronic form) may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Adobe Systems Incorporated. NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.Īdobe® Creative Suite 3 After Effects® Scripting Guide That was it! Thanks for your attention and remember to use Visual Studio Code for Adobe ExtendScript scripting the next time you have a big project.© Copyright 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Here’s a great resource: īeautify by HookeyQR – To have custom settings for formatting documents.įile-icons by file-icons – Add nice flat icons to the files. JSDoc is very handy for keeping your code readable and understandable in the future. Start your script by clicking the green arrow icon at the top of the debugging screen.ĭocument This by Joel Day – is a Visual Studio Code extension that automatically generates detailed JSDoc comments for both TypeScript and JavaScript files.Set some breakpoints to debug your code.Go to settings and click on allow breakpoints everywhere.Select the application that you want to use to run the script.Click on the yellow “select target application” in de bottom right.Go to the debug mode (left menu) and click on the gear icon at the top to create a launch.json.Install ExtendScript Debugger from the extensions menu.To set this up there are a couple of steps required: To do this the Adobe team has blessed us with the ”ExtendScript Debugger” extension. If you’re writing big scripts you’ll want to be able to debug your application. Type “Adobe” to see all your options to run your script in, with the command next to it! For After Effects it’s ctrl + r. Now you can use ctrl + shift + p to open up a command prompt. Install it and read the description to see how it works. Go to extensions in the left menu bar and search for: “Adobe Script Runner” by renderTom. To run the scripts for Visual Studio Code directly in your Adobe program you need to install a extension. If it’s on JavaScript it should work like this! jsx files are on JavaScript language mode by looking in the bottom right corner of the Visual Studio Code window. To de this create a jsconfig.json file in the main folder of your workspace. Normally JavaScript files don’t have error reporting but you can enable this by using a config file. Add the types that you need depending on which software you’re scripting for. ![]() In the scripting workspace create a folder called types. Thanks guys!ĭownload all of the types and save them somewhere on your computer. There is a great resource by Pravdomil and Atarabi on GitHub. To let Visual Studio Code check our code we need the definitions of all the types that can be used. code-workspace file where the settings of the workspace reside, you can change these in the future. You do this by opening your scripts folder in Visual Studio Code and going to File > Save Workspace As… This is great so you can reference your old code fast when coding in the future. Here you can put all your scripts that you are currently developing or that you already developed. To have a pleasant working experience I highly reccomend creating a dedicated folder for Adobe scripting. You can download Visual Studio Code here: Create a Workspace This is super helpful for spotting mistakes early. Plus there is a library for type checking so you get hints and errors along the way while you code. There a couple of extensions that Adobe especially made for debugging in Visual Studio Code. Today I will take you through the steps to create a workspace for developing for ExtendScript. It’s a very light weight code editor and offers a lot of customizability with the help of many free downloadable extensions. When developing websites or web-apps I normally use Visual Studio Code. But there was never really a good alternative… Until NOW! We can now use Visual Studio Code for Adobe ExtendScript scripting. However Adobe stopped developing and updating ExtendScript Toolkit CC so it’s outdated, slow and not very customizable. Normally code editors are quite extensive and well developed. However for someone like me it’s quite annoying, not very customizable and very limited in possibilities. It’s probably the best option for beginners that just want to create some small scripts. ExtendScript Toolkit CC is used a lot in scripting for the Adobe products like After Effects, Premier, Illustrator and Photoshop.
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