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  • What’s wrong with my script to enable layer styles?

    Posted by Xinlai Ni on September 17, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Hi cows:
    I have a simple script to add a comp to a project, add a layer to the comp, then
    I attempted to add the “Inner Glow” layer style to the layer. But it doesn’t work –
    by doesn’t work I mean when you twirl down the layer properties, no layer styles
    were ever created.
    Basically what I wanted to do is to automate the menu action
    Layers > Layer Styles > Inner Glow.

    I opened the extended toolkit and watched the var values, the layerStyles variable
    has ‘enabled’ set to true, but its ‘selected’ is set to false, however I can’t
    do layerStyles.selected = true because
    “Cannot set selecred with this property because the property or a parent property
    is hidden”.

    Any help will be appreciated.
    Thanks
    {
    app.beginUndoGroup(“Test”);
    var proj = app.project;
    var projItems = proj.items;
    var comp = projItems.addComp(“foo”, 200, 200, 1, 5, 30);
    var layer1 = comp.layers.addSolid([0.5, 0, 0], “solid”, 200, 200, 1);
    var layerStyles = layer1.property(“Layer Styles”);
    var innerGlow = layerStyles.property(“Inner Glow”);
    alert(innerGlow.enabled);
    app.endUndoGroup();
    }

    Xinlai Ni replied 16 years, 7 months ago 30,282 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Xinlai Ni

    September 18, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    yes, nobody answered yet, that’s why I’m broadcasting to some other audiences as well.

    Xinlai Ni

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