“Console.log” with Photoshop Scripting - ExtendedScript Toolkit

Question

I'm doing a bit of Photoshop scripting for the first time and it sure would be great to have a console.log-like function to output array and object values in the Javascript console of the ExtendScript Toolkit App.

Is there an equivalent function?

Answer 1

$.writeln() is what you're looking for. See the JavaScript Tools Guide (PDF) for details.

Answer 2

write("any message");

Is what works in XTools for Photoshop. I find that the Photoshop debugger crashes all the time in CS6 on Mac OSX.

You can find more about XTools here: http://ps-scripts.sourceforge.net/xtools.html.

It's fabulous!

Answer 3

I'm using ExtendScript Toolkit version 4.0, and using _print('foo') seems to do the trick.