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  How do I put all paths from shape layer in an array?

  Posted by Sander Van dijk on March 24, 2014 at 11:27 pm

  Hi,

  I want to find all the Paths of my parented shape layer and store them into an array.

  How can I run a loop checking all the children in “contents” so that it will work when paths are in shapes or groups inside groups?
  This is the Array I want to create: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8528087/ScreenshotPaths.png

  This is what I have so far Applied to the path of my shape layer that has another shape layer with paths I want to clone as parent.

  var myParent = thisLayer.parent;
  var numRootContents = myParent.content(1).propertyGroup(1).numProperties;
  var mySelection = 1 % numRootContents; //slider to choose a path from the parented shape layer.

  var myPaths = [];
  var numPath = 0;
  var root = "myParent"
  var addContent = ".content("

  for (var i=1; i<= numRootContents; i++){
  if ( myParent.content(i)(2).name == "Path" ){
  myPaths[numPath] = root + addContent + i +")";
  numPath++
  };
  }

  var mySelection = 1 % numPath;
  eval( myPaths[ mySelection ] )(2);

  Thanks,
  Sander

  Sander Van dijk replied 12 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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