• Adobe After Effects

  ExtendScript: find layers that are NOT selected

  Posted by Eugene Boitsov on February 10, 2019 at 12:02 am

  Hi there,

  CompItem.selectedLayers attribute allows me to keep all selected layers in the Array.
  But how can I get an Array of layers that are not selected layers (the rest, basically)?

  Thanx in advance,
  Eugene

  Walter Soyka replied 7 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  February 10, 2019 at 2:39 am

  Step through all the layers in the comp, check to see if they’re unselected, and create your own array of unselected layers.

  This code ought to do it:

  function getUnselectedLayers(comp) {
if (comp instanceof CompItem) {
var unselectedLayers = [];
for (var compLayerIndex = 1; compLayerIndex < comp.numLayers; compLayerIndex++) {
if (comp.layer(compLayerIndex).selected == false) unselectedLayers.push(comp.layer(compLayerIndex));
}
return unselectedLayers;
} else {
return null;
}
}


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