Working With Selection Objects - Adobe 23102480 - Photoshop CS3 - PC Programming Manual

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Scripting Guide
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property is automatically set to
The
property is set to
To familiarize yourself with this objects, properties, and commands in the scripting references, do the
following:
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 AppleScript Scripting Reference or in the Photoshop CS3 AppleScript
●
Dictionary, look up the
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Visual Basic Scripting Reference, or in the Visual Basic Object Browser
●
look up the
use with a text layer, look up the
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 JavaScript Scripting Reference, or in the ExtendScript Object Model
●
Viewer, look up the
you can use with a text layer, look up the

Working with Selection Objects

You use a
document or a layer within a document. For example, you can apply effects to a selection or copy the
current selection to the clipboard.
The
Selection
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 AppleScript Scripting Reference or in the Photoshop CS3 AppleScript
●
Dictionary, look up the command
object, and the
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Visual Basic Scripting Reference, or in the Visual Basic Object Browser, look
●
up
Selection
Selection
In the Adobe Photoshop CS3 JavaScript Scripting Reference, or in the ExtendScript Object Model Viewer,
●
look up
Selection
Note: You cannot create a new
the
(Select/select)
Creating and Defining a Selection
To create a selection, you use the
You define a selection by specifying the coordinates on the screen that describe the selection's corners.
Since your document is a 2-dimensional object, you specify coordinates using the x-and y-axes as follows:
You use the x-axis to specify the horizontal position on the canvas.
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You use the y-axis to specify the vertical position on the canvas.
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The origin point in Photoshop CS3, that is, x-axis = 0 and y-axis = 0, is the upper left corner of the screen.
The opposite corner, the lower right, is the extreme point of the canvas. For example, if your canvas is 1000
x 1000 pixels, then the coordinate for the lower right corner is x-axis = 1000 and y-axis = 1000.
You specify coordinate points that describe the shape you want to select as an array, which then becomes
the argument or parameter value for the
properties
text-object
paragraph text
text-object
property of the
TextItem
textItem
object to allow your scripts to act only on a specific, selected section of your
Selection
object is a property of the
selection-object
as a property of the
object.
as a property of the
selection
object.
Selection
object contains a pre-existing selection object for the document. Use the
Document
command to specify the area for the selection.
Photoshop CS3
. ) When a new
.
point text
, , and
height width leading
.
properties and methods.
object. To find the properties and methods you can
ArtLayer
object.
TextItem
property of the
ArtLayer
TextItem
object. Look up the following for more information:
Document
. Also, look up the
select
.
object. Also, look up the
Document
object. Also, look up the
Document
object. The property
select/Select/select()
select/Select/select()
Scripting Photoshop CS3
text-object
are valid only when the text item's
object. To find the properties and methods
object.
property of the
selection
as a method of the
Select
select
selection (Selection/selection)
command of the
Selection
command.
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is created, its
kind
kind
Document
as a method of the
on
select
object.