Scripting issues

[russellcottrell]

Hello; sorry to be stubborn, but . . . I just am. I can't help but think that there must be a future for jxa even if it doesn't work perfectly at the moment. So here are some observations in case anyone else has some insights. I found that in the Script Editor, File - Open Dictionary - PhotoLine.app opens a window that shows all the properties and methods. Notably, activeDocument is missing; this may explain why a lot of things don't work:

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var pl = Application.currentApplication();
pl.includeStandardAdditions = true;
pl.displayAlert("Hello, world!");

var doc = pl.activeDocument;
pl.displayAlert(doc.name); // empty string
pl.displayAlert(doc.activeLayer.name); // error
pl.displayAlert(doc.resolution.toString()); // error
doc.activeLayer = doc.root.lastChild; // error

Maybe someday . . . .

[Martin Huber]

You can get the active document with code like:

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if (pl.documents().length > 0)
	doc = pl.documents.first

Then you can get the active layer with

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actLayer = doc.activeLayer()

You can check the layer type with something like

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if ((actLayer != null) && (actLayer.type() === 'LTImage'))
{
   (...)
}

Enumerations in PhotoLine's scripting dictionary seem to be strings in JXA.

But I haven't been able to create new layers at a specific location using JXA. And I haven't been able to set adjustments.

Martin