Custom toolbar for Photoshop (or anything else)

Tools Photoshop
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I’ve made a custom toolbar for Photoshop but the base idea would work with
pretty much any other software.

I used AutoIt to create a window with buttons which send keyboard commands
to Photoshop. I tried to mimic the look and feel of a native toolbar: it moves
with the PS window, doesn’t keep focus, reacts to minimized and inactive
states of the target application, etc.

The sourcecode, icons and stuff can be downloaded from here: MyPSToolbar.zip

Installation instructions and a more detailed description can be found on
the project page.

It’s not very “artist friendly” but TAs should have no problem customizing the script.

Now I’m looking at more elegant solution: a native, custom panel.
Adobe Configurator is almost the solution. Unfortunately it has its limits (like buttons
can’t have images on them), but if v2.0 ever comes it will make PS customization
simple and easy. (At last…)

Until then it seems that I need to learn flash and flex in order to make more
advanced control for the panels.
Does anyone have experience with these kind of stuff?

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hi Zoltan

Looks pretty cool stuff !! after fixing up the toolbar position to fit to my monitor res it works like a charm the only feature request :D: i could ask is a button to launch Color palette and also is not possible to position the toolbar interactively using the mouse kinda option . anyways its just my though but overall great job on the tool

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Thanks mayurcool. :slight_smile:
Hmm… so you can’t drag the toolbar around when you grab it at the left end?
But yeah, the hardcoded start position is not very elegant… Passing the coordinates as arguments would be a better. Stay tuned.
(Btw, is there a shortcut to launch the color palette?)

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It takes command line arguments now: MyPSToolbar.zip