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  • Is there a way to loop through a layer’s property groups and JUST get the ones that are visible in a script?

    Posted by Kevin C. burke on January 1, 2015 at 8:15 am

    Hi,
    I’m trying to just get the property groups that are visible to a given layer in my script. Is there such a property?

    For example, when I loop through a Shape Layer’s property groups, I get Masks, Layer Styles, Material Options, and Audio property groups, when none of these are appropriate. I’ve tried using property().elided, but it just gives me the hidden ‘Contents’ folders within the Vector Groups and ‘Masks’ within ‘Compositing Options’.**

    ** on a side note, I have gotten the error “Can not ‘set expression’ with this property, because the property or a parent property is hidden.” when trying to access X or Y Rotation on a 2D layer. It makes it seem like there is a ‘hidden’ Boolean somewhere in the Property Object, but I can’t find it.

    Kevin C. burke replied 11 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    January 2, 2015 at 12:51 am

    You got an answer here:
    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1669938

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  • Kevin C. burke

    January 2, 2015 at 12:53 am

    Yes I did, thank you.

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