Photoshop CS6 Scripting - Manipulate Transform Reference Point

Question

When scripting the Photoshop CS6 Transform, you can set the center to rotate or scale around a point by specifying the AnchorPosition enum, such as AnchorPosition.BOTTOMCENTER for the bottom center, etc. The Transform tool also allows you to manually change the center by dragging around this "reference point" making it "independent" (the action term when you do this).

Is there a programmatic way to control the x, y coordinates to actually position of the "reference point" that transforms are rotated and scaled around using javascript?

Answer 1

This is to get you going. I dug this out form the script listener.

rotateCurrentLayer(-10 , 532, 412)

function rotateCurrentLayer( angle, X, Y){
    var idTrnf = charIDToTypeID( "Trnf" );
    var desc77 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );
    var ref8 = new ActionReference();
    var idLyr = charIDToTypeID( "Lyr " );
    var idOrdn = charIDToTypeID( "Ordn" );
    var idTrgt = charIDToTypeID( "Trgt" );
    ref8.putEnumerated( idLyr, idOrdn, idTrgt );
    desc77.putReference( idnull, ref8 );
    var idFTcs = charIDToTypeID( "FTcs" );
    var idQCSt = charIDToTypeID( "QCSt" );
    var idQcsi = charIDToTypeID( "Qcsi" );
    desc77.putEnumerated( idFTcs, idQCSt, idQcsi );
    var idPstn = charIDToTypeID( "Pstn" );
    var desc78 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var idRlt = charIDToTypeID( "#Rlt" );
    desc78.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Hrzn" ), idRlt, X);
    desc78.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Vrtc" ), idRlt, Y);
    var idPnt = charIDToTypeID( "Pnt " );
    desc77.putObject( idPstn, idPnt, desc78 );
    var idAng = charIDToTypeID( "#Ang" );
    desc77.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( "Angl" ),  idAng, angle);
    executeAction( idTrnf, desc77, DialogModes.NO );
 }