How to Edit an Action File

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Jim
Jan 17, 2005
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Hello,

I am using Pshop CS on the XP platform and there is a multistep action that I would like to edit. Specifically it is a step that creates a gradient. I would like to change the X,Y coordinates that were used when the gradient step of the action was originally created. I tried the double click method to edit this step but this method apparently works only for those events that use a dailog box for input vs a mouse drag.

Really what I would like to do is just go into the action 8bf file using a bin file editor and change the appropriate values there. I have found the section of the action associated with the application of the gradient but can not figure out where the positional information is stored and how it is encoded. I have looked in the manual, in the online help and on Google but can not find a solution. Any help regarding editing the 8bf file directly would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Jan 17, 2005
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Jim writes:
I am using Pshop CS on the XP platform and there is a multistep action that I would like to edit. Specifically it is a step that creates a gradient. I would like to change the X,Y coordinates that were used when the gradient step of the action was originally created. I tried the double click method to edit this step but this method apparently works only for those events that use a dailog box for input vs a mouse drag.

You can re-record that particular step, then delete the old step.

Really what I would like to do is just go into the action 8bf file using a bin file editor and change the appropriate values there. I have found the section of the action associated with the application of the gradient but can not figure out where the positional information is stored and how it is encoded.

The numbers are stored like on a Mac. I never can remember which is big-endian and which is little-endian, but you have to use whichever is the opposite of the representation normally used on PCs.

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jjs
Jan 18, 2005
"Warren Sarle" wrote in message

The numbers are stored like on a Mac. I never can remember which is big-endian and which is little-endian, but you have to use whichever is the opposite of the representation normally used on PCs.

The PowerPC is bi-endian. I kid you not. That doubles its chances of never going down alone.

But to be serious, and to keep me out of trouble, is it against the Adobe EULA to decompile an action and publish the results?

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