It does work with CS4

[jacktasia]

Howdy,

Since the front page for this project says it's only been tested with CS5...I just wanted to say it does work with CS4 (after updating the Rakefile to allow CS 4 installs). It's kind of slow to initially load the panel for a psd but I don't know if that's because it's CS4, I am on a 3 year old mac, or because my psd has a ton of layers (or something else)....but it does work.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that it does work for CS4. After my free CS6 preview ran out searching layers was basically the only thing I was missing going back to CS4 and now I have it. Thanks!

[alagu]

Hello, thanks for reporting. I do not have a copy of CS4, but will get a trial version and install it.

It is actually slow because it fetches all layers once and indexes it. It still needs to be optimized. Could you fork it and fix it? I can help you.

[jacktasia]

I've never really messed with hacking on Adobe products...Can you explain the build process a bit more? It seems like part of the process is not in the Rakefile (like how /src contents gets build/into /bin-release)? How does the LayerSearch.swf get built? I assume it's made up (at least partly) of LayerSearch.mxml?

How do you get a quick feedback loop as you hack? It seems like it should be made up of something like this? (That would obviously be grouped together as one task)

close Photoshop
rake uninstall
rake clean
rake package
rake install
open Photopshop

I have some ideas on making it faster if you'll let me know the answers to the questions above (and any other tips you have). Thanks!