• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Get layer from selected property (in a script)

  Posted by Pierre-alain Lécroart on May 4, 2020 at 10:00 am

  Hi !

  Disclaimer : I’m doing my first script ever

  I’m looking for a function that would help me retrieve the layer of a selected property.
  If I have this line :
  
//Get selected property
var myProperty = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties[0];

  How can I do something like this :
  
//Get layer of selected property
var myLayer = myProperty.parentLayer;


  For now, my only solution is to stack a bunch of “.parentProperty” until I get something that I want but I don’t find this really clean ☺
  
var selectedProperties = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties;
for(var i=0; i < selectedProperties.length; i++) {
//If property is a group, try next property
if (selectedProperties[i].canAddProperty) {
continue;
}
var test = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties[0].parentProperty.parentProperty.property("ADBE Effect Parade");
//Property is in a property from an effect
if (test == "Effects") {
var myLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties[i].parentProperty.parentProperty.parentProperty;
}
//Property is a transform property
else {
var myLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties[i].parentProperty;
}
}


  Pierre-alain Lécroart replied 6 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  May 4, 2020 at 5:53 pm

  Try this:

  var myProperty = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties[0];
  var myLayer = myProperty.propertyGroup(myProperty.propertyDepth);

  Dan
• 

  Pierre-alain Lécroart

  May 4, 2020 at 6:20 pm

  Perfect solution ! Thanks a lot Dan.

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