I've seen this bug since I first started using Photoshop with actions on a PC about 6 years ago - amazingly, it's still there - in CS3 - on both PC and Mac.
Crank open Photoshop and load any two images - doesn't matter what.
Now make a new action and start recording it.
Select whichever of the two images is behind the one in which you are recording the action...the action recording doesn't pick up the switch.
Select the orig image again - and it picks up that switch to the 'next' document
Then select the previous image again - and it picks it up.
I write lots of actions for essentially processing dozens and dozens of images in order and come across this all the time. I have to record an action that switches, switches back, switch again - then when I'm done recording the action, delete the 'next document' line.
Very odd - doesn't impact productivity at all, but I always worry about little bugs like that - what is the potential impact of whatever line of code is to blame elsewhere?
Doug
Crank open Photoshop and load any two images - doesn't matter what.
Now make a new action and start recording it.
Select whichever of the two images is behind the one in which you are recording the action...the action recording doesn't pick up the switch.
Select the orig image again - and it picks up that switch to the 'next' document
Then select the previous image again - and it picks it up.
I write lots of actions for essentially processing dozens and dozens of images in order and come across this all the time. I have to record an action that switches, switches back, switch again - then when I'm done recording the action, delete the 'next document' line.
Very odd - doesn't impact productivity at all, but I always worry about little bugs like that - what is the potential impact of whatever line of code is to blame elsewhere?
Doug