• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  List all layers inside a selected composition

  Posted by Kiril Gerenov on January 13, 2015 at 11:39 am

  Hi,
  I’ve been searching for this and I still can’t find a solution.
  I am trying to get a list of the layers inside a selected composition layer
  
var curItem = app.project.activeItem;
var selectedLayers = curItem['selectedLayers'];
var curLayer = curItem.selectedLayers[0];//curLayer is a composition layer

  var layersInside = curLayer.layers;//this one doesn't work and doesn't get the layers inside the composition layer

  Any ideas?

  Thx

  Kiril

  Kiril Gerenov replied 11 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Xavier Gomez

  January 13, 2015 at 3:26 pm

  Even if a layer is a precomp, it doesnt have a “layers” property.
  You should use layer.source to get to its source.
  If the layer is a precomp, then layer.source should be a CompItem:

  var curItem = app.project.activeItem;
  var selectedLayers = curItem.selectedLayers;
  var curLayer = curItem.selectedLayers[0];
  var layersInside = curLayer.source.layers;

  Care: this will be valid only if currLayer is a precomp.

  Xavier
• 

  Kiril Gerenov

  January 13, 2015 at 3:34 pm

  Thank you, Xavier!
  That worked great!

  Kiril

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