Script request, reveal in timeline

[Dan Ebberts]

Scripting has really limited control of the UI, so, unfortunately, I don’t think it’s possible to operate specific twirlies from a script.

Dan

[Sebastian Moreno]

I was looking for the same script but didn’t find something similar so I wrote a quick and dirty solution. Works only with custom paths and creates a keyframe at current time (can be removed with further code)

function Path() {
    var selectedLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;
    for (var x = selectedLayers.length - 1; x >= 0; x--) {
        var currentLayer = selectedLayers[x];
        var Path = currentLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").property("ADBE Vector Group").property("ADBE Vectors Group").property("ADBE Vector Shape - Group").property("ADBE Vector Shape")
        Path.selected = true;
        app.executeCommand(2701);
        app.executeCommand(2387);
    }
}
Path();

[Filip Vandueren]

Here’s the hack I came up with to show a specific path:

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/show-a-property-using-extendscript/#post-2403741

Show a property using Extendscript

[Filip Vandueren]

Here it is rewritten for specifically revealing only all paths of the selected layers. There may be a more efficient way to first find all Paths in the selected layers, my extendscripting is a bit rusty.

app.beginUndoGroup("reveal Paths");
selLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;
props=[];
function findPaths(prop) {
    if (prop.matchName == "ADBE Vector Shape") {
        props.push(prop);
    }
    if (prop.numProperties) {
        for (var i=1; i<=prop.numProperties; i++) {
            findPaths(prop(i));
            }
        }
  }
for (l in selLayers) {
    selLayer=selLayers[l];
    if (selLayer.matchName == "ADBE Vector Layer") {
        numGroups = selLayer("ADBE Root Vectors Group").numProperties;
        findPaths(selLayer("ADBE Root Vectors Group"),props); 
    }
 }
// prop we want to reveal:
originalExpression=[];
for (p=0; p < props.length; p++) {
    prop = props[p]
    originalExpression[p] = prop.expression;
    prop.expression= "1/0"; // create an expression error
    //reveal expression errors:
}
app.executeCommand( app.findMenuCommandId("Reveal Expression Errors") );
$.sleep(1); // wait 1 ms
// reset expression to previous value
for (p=0; p < props.length; p++) {
    props[p].expression = originalExpression[p];
}
app.endUndoGroup();