Added new functions and did some tweaking

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Hi Sbraril,

super great plugin!!! Found it yesterday as i was getting anoyed by Photoshop's default functionalities. I also found Animator's Toolbar, which has a bit more powerful functions, but is now a paid plugin. I saw that one has the function to do addframe on multiple layers. Since i do some scripting now and then. Iv been fiddling around. I got something work now and it works. I only need to get the re-election of the layers at the end working properly.

Perhaps your interested in this, i think it helps users a lot if you can do multiple at once.

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Did some more digging and now i got selection to work and it also keeps selection. Now i need work out nested layers.

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I got some more items working now, I've added lots of functions using either shift or alt or shift + alt. That way we can have 4 functions per icon, if it fits its need. Ive also made the panel persistent. Meaning, when its close it remembers its state. Because I've added button active state for hotkeys, filter (new option), onionskin, i also needed to add local store. One problem and i thinks its a photoshop bug. The menu toggle Onion Skinning, doesn't stay on after restart. All other options do get saved but not this one.

Anyways, because i know added local store it remembers settings. So on restart you can see if if hotkeys are on or not. Ive also added icon size, handy for tablet work. I found the icons to big, they don't match with photoshop, so i added a small option. Then the panel fits in more, altleast i think :) Ive added back tooltips, but these are optional as well now.

Then i did some big overhaul to how things work for moving, adding and coloring. Im almost done with it, but i want to see if i can make the code simpler. Im no coder so use a lot of code over all the files. I did make one file that helps to get all selected layers and its ID. Because we have the ID number we can do the actions to the selection. Super handy :)

I also adding Grouping and Ungrouping for selected files. You can toggle colors as well instead of deleting them. Deleting is very destructive, say you use for in your design. Because deleting will delete all. I think I'm gonna see if i can add an option so it only deletes the colored ones. But that one will be tricky if you also have other color adjustment layers.

Panel Flyoutmenu expanded options

Buttons show active state also after a restart or panel close

Preview of apply color to complete selection including nested layers

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Here's also a preview of moving multiple items at once. I have not figured out how to do nested items. That could be more difficult as when you move one, the other or all other would need to be moved. I think that would take a quite difficult approach.

Im not animator or illustrator so i have no idea if moving items 10 frames is handy. I feel the current setup is more towards illustrators then to animators since its all 1 an 2's

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Here's also a preview of the tooltips and how they are stored not only per session but also on restart. The same counts for the icons, you can also preview the new icon sizes I've added.

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Hi Rombout,

Sorry I didn't noticed the thread because I was to busy!

That's just amazing and I'm incredibly happy to have someone like you jumping on the contribution and helping the projet going further than my coding limitations allow me to do :)

Thank you very much!

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Ive also added icon size, handy for tablet work. I found the icons to big, they don't match with photoshop, so i added a small option. Then the panel fits in more, altleast i think :)

That's because I'm using touch based device (Cintiq touch and MobileStudio) and it fits the finger size ;-)
But with this option it's so much better!

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Well im really glad you like it. I was a bit busy this week. But since we are in full lockdown where i live i did some more testing. I did some more changes, hope you don't mind that i change quite a lot of items. I refined the icon and i think its nicer if its single color, just like PS UI. I understand you have the second app as well. I do have a nice color scheme, which i sort of photoshops colors scheme, but I'm not sure you like it as well.

I also did some work on the icon, i made a bit sleeker a more flat design. Like how photoshop has it guess. I tweaked your design a bit and was also inspired by the icon of Adobe Mix. Never saw that app, but saw its icon and liked the theme color. I adjusted the icon a bit so it resembles a tweenMotion. I kept the 3 circles but the middle one looks like its moving. I found that a very nice touch.

I also was testing some other items today. Im still figuring out how to make a proper preferences panel but for now i got something else nice perhaps. Instead of sending people to a website.

PS your website has broken links, none of the links are actually clickable. I looked in the code and all seems fine, no errors as well??? kinda weird.

But perhaps its handy if they can view video inside photoshop itself. Hardly any panel does this. These panels can do almost everything i believe. Im also testing something to show the Tool Guide you made. Here's a little preview i got now. Im still working on that layout, so its a but messy. Im not yet sure if I should use an image or just plain HTML. I have some ideas of perhaps making it searchable, but that's a lot more work. Im a graphic designer, so making the guide as an image is much easier for me.

The video is just a random one i picked from your Vimeo profile. But it plays just fine also with the audio and all. I thought perhaps that's easier because the user can stay inside photoshop.

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I did some more work on that panel. What a lot of information to read and understand, wowsers. But its handy for me that I'm testing all of this. I wanted to make some kind of panel for a long time and now I'm learning along the way.

I now use a long image as a guide, but I'm thinking of making it full HTML perhaps. I think it will look nicer and crisper. I saw this trick last week to export your Indesign layout as a strict HTML website. It is some kind undocumented feature in Indesign.

I made a test now using second panel which is callable from the main panel. I thought this is is because you can keep it open alongside the main panel. THe idea is to expand that second panel with all kinds of video and shortcuts and other info. Im still doing mockups. I think i should have made a wire-frames first though... lol

Here's a quick test on switching between different help items. The idea i had is that the hamburger menu will show all links you can choose from. For now I'm simply switching between the mockup design i made. I also tested the functionality of Vimeo videos and that works. So the idea is that each thumbnail will load a video

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I like the new version of the icon, I just have to figure out how to transpose this style for AnimCouleur but I'll do :)

The HTML version seems better regarding responsiveness but sometime the easiest/quickest way is the best to maintain a side project in the long run and that's part of the reason why I didn't had tooltips and just quick videos as user guide + a simple PDF ;)
For the record, I had tooltips when the panel was built in Adobe Configurator and the translations/implementation (everybody was wanting his localization) was really time consuming, even if it was a native Configurator feature, so in HTML – at the time – I didn't found a satisfying solution. As a reminder I'm as well a simple designer with visibly less skills than you ^^
Archive memory time, here a panel I did in 2012 who included at first videos in an HTML container, but the team told me to simplify using simple external links in the Tutorial section, if I well remember, to avoid potential performance issues, etc:
https://creativepro.com/photoshop-cs6-features-panel/

And yes, since CS3 InDesign can export HTML contents with semantics and you can inject CSS and Javascript at the exportation time but the setup will be worth it for a recurring publishing but not for an occasional export, in my opinion.

I'll take a look at the links, thanks for the heads up.
And I like the idea of the links in the burger menu but it will require the user to be connected. I did it for CS6 Configurator educational panels back then but for learning tools page, I think maybe a simple url at the bottom of the image guide would be simpler?

So happy to you onboard of the projet!

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I like the new version of the icon, I just have to figure out how to transpose this style for AnimCouleur but I'll do :)

I got perhaps a nice idea for that one as well. I see if i can make some mockups for the icon
I mainly focussed on AnimDessin2 but was already thinking, the other one should get some upgrades as well.

The HTML version seems better regarding responsiveness but sometimes the easiest/quickest way is the best to maintain a side project in the long run and that's part of the reason why I didn't had tooltips and just quick videos as user guide + a simple PDF ;)

Indeed nothing doing all that work is easier and faster. But i find this more convenient for a user. But indeed language / localize settings is tricky. I have thought a just a bit about that. Currently the docs are also only in English and French so that wont be to much work. I remember its possible to fill a HTML dynamically by JSON files. That would be super easy to update. Just update the JSON and the HTML will be filled automatically. I also think i saw something about updating the tooltips also by using localization settings.

Im not sure why you are still hammering on old version and performance issues. I mean these panels can do so much and we are in 2020. Its a shame if all those features are not used. I check my mockup i made with the video player inside. The CPU gets taxed buy photoshop the same as i play the video in Vimeo.

Here's a mockup i made testing video options. I also tried Youtube, but somehow i have a error from youtube with that one. Not sure whats going on .

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He Stéphane, i got localization working, it took me the whole day to figure this out. Bad this is. I have no idea how to test it. The docs don't state anything about the possibility to test neither. Basically i tested it on the tooltips. On the init of the plugin, i let the titles of the buttons be changed by a localized file on initialization. I tested it by changing actually tooltip title by something from that file and it works on restart. If this works, then i can adjust the complete UI and the language all over the extension. It works by the application language, i don't see any method of testing this. I only have English in my system and the CEP documentation doesn't state anything about testing this.

PS you like drawing i believe right? Well this amazing skilled artist Aaron Blaise, which did a couple of Disney movies has a free tut :) Perhaps you already past that level, probably your. But perhaps you like to see it anyway, thought I'd share the link
https://creatureartteacher.com/

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After a couple hours of digging i found a method to change my photoshop language without reinstalling it. I had a backup of my 2018cc installer, i always try to keep them just incase. I was digging inside the kpg installer and noticed locales packs :) So now i am able to test languages.

As i was guessing i have implemented it correctly. So if we can have people make translations we can add as many as we want. Ill try to finish that help gui in HTML and will implement Localization there as well.

I think this is a super

nice feature. Hardly any Extension i have does this. I guess why... it took me hours and hours of digging, googling, testing, failing etc etc hahahaha But now i got it working

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Hi Stephen, ive added a repo with my WIP on GitHub. Could you perhaps test it on your system? PS i didn't do anything to the signing of that signature file. Still need to figure out how that works. I simply dropped in files and it still works here. Guess that's when you use a zxp as an installation method.

You can find it here https://github.com/schroef/AnimDessin2

It could be it wont show items. I haven't checked what happens if there are not stored settings

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did a quick test and should work fine. One thing to take note of, is that the shortcut keys toggle should be checked. If its ON in the timeline panel than toggle it off, then use the button in the panel. That way its in sync with the timeline panel. I added a blue style to indicate its active, not 100% sure of this. It could be more clear, i find it a bit unreadable perhaps.

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Okay did ton of work again, im almost done getting localize to work everywhere. If that is implemented, you can simply add properties files with all available links and the complete UI in the both panels will be adjusted. Howevr I'm not sure the video part should be done. Since the video themselves are in English anyways.

But the tooltips, context menu and tool guide are all now changeable.
Im busy with the Dutch version and adding all the options so they will change when language is switched.
French version

Dutch version

I also added a little filter, an be useful i thought and works on both pages.