ExtendScript: find layers that are NOT selected

[Walter Soyka]

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;
}
}


Walter Soyka
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