Skipping Hidden Properties with ExtendScript

[Dan Ebberts]

Can you give a specific example of how to set up something that will generate an error?

Dan

[Keenan Parry]

Hi Dan, thanks for the reply. It wasn’t as easy to explain as I thought, so I made a little demo AEP file for you if you’re willing to take the time. I set it up as easy and straightforward as possible.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7dj152x0uafvs8/Error_Demo.aep?dl=0

If you open that file you will see 3 layers. The layer in question that’s causing the problem is the Grid effect on the layer called ERROR I believe? Possibly the grayed out Width and Height section? When you run the script, you will see the error pop up and after you stop the script, you will notice that it does actually enable the first two expressions but stops before it can enable the 3rd at the bottom.

[Dan Ebberts]

Ah, thanks.

Just adding a try/catch worked for me:


try{
property.expressionEnabled = true;
}catch (e){
}


Dan

[Keenan Parry]

Thanks Dan! Do you mind showing me where you put it in the full script? I attempted to put it in front of all the if statements and then after but I’m still getting the error.

[Dan Ebberts]


(function() {
function recursiveDisableExpressions(propertyGroup) {
for (var i = 1; i <= propertyGroup.numProperties; i++) {
var property = propertyGroup.property(i);

if (property instanceof PropertyGroup) {
recursiveDisableExpressions(property);
continue;
}

if (!property.canSetExpression) {
continue;
}

if (!property.isModified) {
continue;
}

if (property.expressionEnabled === false) {
try{
property.expressionEnabled = true;
}catch (e){
}
}
}
}

app.beginUndoGroup("Disable All Comp Expressions");

var comp = app.project.activeItem;

for (var i = 1; i <= comp.numLayers; i++) {
var layer = comp.layer(i);

recursiveDisableExpressions(layer);
}

app.endUndoGroup();
})();


[Keenan Parry]

Once again, you have helped me directly as much as you have helped me indirectly. Thank you sir.

[Matthias Stoll]

This method is great to select/adress all properties in a Comp. It was hard to find this here because your use case here is different.

I’ve been trying to build this for some time now, never got it. I could not come up with the construct that the property becomes the function input as soon as it is “instanceof PropertyGroup”.

I found out this doesn’t work for Mask Properties. But it is really easy to fix, just modify the first if-Statement to include “MaskPropertyGroup”.

if (property instanceof PropertyGroup || property instanceof MaskPropertyGroup) {
recursiveDisableExpressions(property);
continue;