Automatically create new layer for every new Stylus stroke

NirBenz · Post by **NirBenz** » Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:04 pm

Hey all.

I've been going through these forums quite a bit in the past week, and they were very helful.
One thing I haven't been able to find online at all (nor in Adobe's reference books) is how and where the Wacom/Photoshop interaction happens.

I want to tap into that interaction engine and simply add a app.activeDocument.artLayers.add(); every time a 'pen-off' event occurs.

Anyone has any experience with that?

Thanks

Mike Hale · Post by **Mike Hale** » Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:53 pm

If it is possible at all to handle a 'pen off' event I would think it would have to be done at the OS level.

I know there is no Photoshop/javascript tablet awareness. And at least with my tablet in the tablet control panel there isn't a 'pen off' event for the tip, only click. I would think you would need a 'pen down' and pen up' event similar to mouse down mouse up events in ScriptUI.

NirBenz · Post by **NirBenz** » Fri Aug 02, 2013 6:29 pm

Well even without an event like that, it can be possible to get similar behavior by getting the different pen parameters (i.e when pressure, tiltX/tilyY all become zero, create new layer).
I have actually managed to do something similar with MyPaint (an opensource painter program).

So question remains - if there is anyway to actually get that data onto a script.