[Florian Zeiler]

Yes, it seems to be for the 2-dimensional point control for example – i just tried to pass the value from “Scale” to a point control and it actually just takes a 2-value array, so that is that.

Thanks for your kind help, Andrei – much appreciated!

[Florian Zeiler]

That’s great to know – i need to create layer controls that grab the original value (at the time of script execution) from the selected property, so your code snippet is very helpful as well. Thanks a lot ☺

By the way – if all of these properties like Scale and Position are already 3-dimensional values by default – for which properties do we actually need the .TwoD and .TwoD_SPATIAL enumerations?

Thanks again, Andrei!

[Florian Zeiler]

Thanks for your quick reply, Andrei.

That makes absolute sense, thank you for the clarification. So in my code, i should probably check if the selected property’s layer is a 3D layer as well?

After i create the point-control for the scale of a 2D-Layer, i still only connect the values to the first two values of the scale array, correct? By that, i mean [value[0],value[1]] for the 2D Layer. And if the layer has the 3D-switch turned on, i connect three values to the scale? ( [value[0],value[1],value[2]]

Thanks in advance

Kind regards

Florian

[Florian Zeiler]

Ah, thanks so much for that!

But it’s rather unexpected behaviour, isn’t it? Especially since the other methods do not perform that way..

Anyway, your edit works perfectly as expected – thank you so much for your time and effort! ☺

Regards

Florian

[Florian Zeiler]

No, this is actually the whole script – the ffx file is residing in a folder and can be accessed by the script. My guess is that there is something fundamentally wrong with the applyPreset() method – every other method i tried (such as remove() for example) works as expected and only affects the non-Shape Layers (with my original script).

But the applyPreset method affects all layers!

I am running this in extendscript but also tried Expressionist in Script Mode and the run script method .. all the same!

Thank you for helping me with this – i am stuck.. ☹

[Florian Zeiler]

Thanks for the help and for cleaning up the code ☺

Using this script, i get an error at line 22 – “undefined is not an object”

Did i mess something up?

[Florian Zeiler]

Hello Andrei,

thank you so much for taking the time to help me with my Script!

Using your hint (the for loop… i must have missed that ????) i was able to alter my Script. I can now successfully retrieve the layers, that are not Shape layers. But now i am facing another strange problem – maybe you can help me?

In the code below, you can see that i am applying an expression to all Stroke colors on the Shape layers. That works already. But for all the non-Shape Layers, i want to apply a preset.

For some reason, the preset is also applied to the Shape layers, even though the alert i put in for testing only prints out the names of the non-Shape Layers.

Do you have an idea why this is happening? The other methods (.remove() or moveToBeginning() for example) work just as expected and only affect the non-shape layers – but the .applyPreset() affects all layers.. what’s going on?

Thanks so much in advance!

{
app.beginUndoGroup("Link Stroke Color");

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var numLayer = myComp.selectedLayers;
var colorExp = '(expression placeholder - for code length reasons :D)"';

for (var a = 0; a < numLayer.length; a++) {
if (numLayer[a] instanceof ShapeLayer) {

function scanPropGroupProperties(propGroup) {
var i, prop;

// Iterate over the specified property group's properties
for (i = 1; i <= propGroup.numProperties; i++) {
prop = propGroup.property(i);
if (prop.propertyType === PropertyType.PROPERTY && prop.name === 'Color' && propGroup.canSetEnabled && prop.parentProperty.name.slice(0,6) === 'Stroke') // Found a property
{
prop.expression = colorExp
} else if ((prop.propertyType === PropertyType.INDEXED_GROUP) || (prop.propertyType === PropertyType.NAMED_GROUP)) {
// Found an indexed or named group, so check its nested properties
scanPropGroupProperties(prop);
}
}
}

for (var i = 0; i < numLayer.length; i++) {
scanPropGroupProperties(numLayer[i]);
}

} else {
alert(numLayer[a].name + " is not a Shape Layer!");
numLayer[a].applyPreset(File("\fill.ffx"));
}
}

app.endUndoGroup();
}

[Florian Zeiler]

@Steve

Thank you so much, that worked perfectly ☺