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  selectedLayers change event

  Posted by Marc Krenn on February 2, 2019 at 11:30 am

  Hi there,

  long time lurker (15y+), first time poster ☺ Not sure if this is the right subforum, as this is a AE script question.

  Anyways, I’m looking for an Event that fires when the user selects a new layer. Is there a such a thing (pseudo-code below)?

  Thanks a bunch!

  app.project.activeItem.onChange = function () { //selectedLayers changed }

  Marc Krenn replied 7 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andrei Popa

  February 2, 2019 at 3:39 pm

  You can not listen to events in the project with a script. onChange only works when something in the script changes(I meanin the UI of the script). I think in order to be able to do that you need to build a plugin, but those are completely other story. The best way to trigger events remains the use of a button.

  Andrei
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  Marc Krenn

  February 2, 2019 at 5:08 pm

  Bummer, but what can you do?! ☺

  Will fall back to a button.

  Thanks, Andrei!

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