[Rodrigo Aben]

That solved beautifully, Filip. Thanks a lot!

[Rodrigo Aben]

Function .includes does not exist on extendscript

[Rodrigo Aben]

Actually it seems there’s no command ID for the smoother

[Rodrigo Aben]

Cant’t you just replace the “TEXT 01” by “TEXT” + thisLayer.index ?

[Rodrigo Aben]

BTW, I keep having no ideia of how .onActivate() works. Tryied different things but none of them returns anything.

[Rodrigo Aben]

Solved! Logical problem actually. I was adding the event listener to the window and not to the actual group. This is the proper way to write it:

var win = new Window ("dialog");
var maingroup = win.add ("panel {orientation: 'column'}");
add_row (maingroup);
var show_btn = win.add ("button", undefined, "Save presets");
show_btn.onClick = function () {
var txt = "";
for (var n = 0; n < maingroup.children.length; n++) {
 txt += maingroup.children[n].edit.text + "\n";
}
alert ("Rows: \n" + txt);
}
win.show ();
function add_row (maingroup) {
var group = maingroup.add ("group");
group.statictext = group.add ("statictext", undefined, "Left-click  +");
group.edit = group.add ("edittext", ["", "", 200, 20], "Click here and press any key");
group.plus = group.add ("button", undefined, "+");
group.plus.onClick = add_btn;
group.minus = group.add ("button", undefined, "-");
group.minus.onClick = minus_btn;
group.index = maingroup.children.length - 1;
    group.addEventListener ("keydown", function (kd) {pressed (kd)});
    function pressed (k) {
    if(k.keyName === "Enter"){
    group.edit.text = "Enter";
            }
        }

win.layout.layout (true);
}
function add_btn () {
add_row (maingroup);
}
function minus_btn () {
maingroup.remove (this.parent);
win.layout.layout (true);
}

[Rodrigo Aben]

Seems like your comp is too small or preview quality is set to “half”. Maybe you could share your project so we can check it.

[Rodrigo Aben]

Sorry for bothering you too much, but I know I’ll face a whole new problem in case the “unique” file detected is part of a image sequence. Any insights on how to go about that?

[Rodrigo Aben]

Great solution, Filip! Thank you very much. I had no idea they would not be considered equal. Could you elaborate more on that?

BTW I would also like to avoid nesting functions and loops, but since folder.getFiles() only works one folder at a time, running this function seemed to me the simplest way of looping through all folders.

My full code below in case you see any room for improvement (and you probably will).

Thank you very much once again.

var myProj = app.project;

//creates an array of all file's folders

var myAssetspath = [];

for (var i = 1; i <= myProj.numItems; i++) {
var filesPath = app.project.item(i).file.fsName.replace(app.project.item(i).name, "");
myAssetspath.push(filesPath);
}

//this sorts the array

var mySortedFolders = myAssetspath.sort();

//removes duplicate folders

var myUniqueFolders = [];

for (var i = 0; i <= mySortedFolders.length; i++){
if(mySortedFolders[i] != mySortedFolders[i+1]){
myUniqueFolders.push(mySortedFolders[i]);
}
}

// gets files from all unique folders and tests if they're already imported. If not, imports them

for (var i = 0; i < myUniqueFolders.length; i++){

// function ImportUniqueFiles(){
var folder = new Folder;
folder = Folder(myUniqueFolders[i]);

var files = folder.getFiles();
// convert the list of File-Objects to a list of Strings of their Paths
files = files.map( function (f) { return f.absoluteURI });

myImportedFiles = [];

for (var k = 1; k <= myProj.numItems; k++) {
var thisFile = app.project.item(k).file;
// many compItems don't have a file as source
if (thisFile !== null && thisFile !== undefined) {
myImportedFiles.push(thisFile.absoluteURI);
}
}
alert(myImportedFiles.length);

importFiles(files);

function importFiles(files) {
for(var j = 0; j < files.length; j++) {
$.writeln(myImportedFiles.indexOf(files[j]));
if(myImportedFiles.indexOf(files[j]) == -1){
alert(files[j]);
app.project.importFile(new ImportOptions(files[j]));
}else{
alert("not unique");
}
}
}
}

[Rodrigo Aben]

Turns out, Thomas was right. Sorry for the delay guys but your help has been amazing. These are the projects I’ve been able to create with it http://www.abenathar.com