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Beard Master
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March 12, 2017
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If a layer is marked one particular color then do something...into jsx?

  • March 12, 2017
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Im working on a solution for our interactive fellows and art guys to better export photoshop layers' position and size information into code.

I had done everything right expect in canvas for example we need to pin some element's axis center point ( or some word starts with letter o I cant recall ) to some particular angle like left-bottom / top-bottom.

My goal is to let art guy decide which layer's axis center point should be where , without telling our code guy. And I think to mark every layer's color is one easy way to do that : If I want this layer's axis center point to be "left-bottom" in future , I just mark it red; If top-bottom, mark purple; and so on.

Now comes the part Im having trouble carry on, is there a way to code the export jsx that can get the "mark color" in photosohp ?

Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer SuperMerlin

//Colours returned ....

// "none","red","orange","yellowColor","grain","blue","violet","gray"

function getLayerColour(){
var ref = new ActionReference(); 
    ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID("Prpr") ,stringIDToTypeID("color"));
   ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );  
  return typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")) );
};

function getLayerColourByIndex( idx ) { 
    var ref = new ActionReference(); 
   ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID("Prpr") ,stringIDToTypeID("color")); 
    ref.putIndex( charIDToTypeID( "Lyr " ), idx );
    return typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID("color"))); 
};

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SuperMerlin
SuperMerlinCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 12, 2017

//Colours returned ....

// "none","red","orange","yellowColor","grain","blue","violet","gray"

function getLayerColour(){
var ref = new ActionReference(); 
    ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID("Prpr") ,stringIDToTypeID("color"));
   ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") );  
  return typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID("color")) );
};

function getLayerColourByIndex( idx ) { 
    var ref = new ActionReference(); 
   ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID("Prpr") ,stringIDToTypeID("color")); 
    ref.putIndex( charIDToTypeID( "Lyr " ), idx );
    return typeIDToStringID(executeActionGet(ref).getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID("color"))); 
};
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    Beard MasterAuthor
    Participant
    March 16, 2017

    THX Sounds promising I'll try it !

    Tomas Sinkunas
    Tomas Sinkunas
    Legend
    March 12, 2017

    Hi Beard.

    To get label color, you can use this script:

    function getLayerColour(){ 
      var ref = new ActionReference(); 
      ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt") ); 
      var appDesc = executeActionGet(ref); 
      return typeIDToStringID(appDesc.getEnumerationValue(stringIDToTypeID('color')) ); 
    };
    alert(getLayerColour());

    This thread talks about layer label colors Determine layer color label from layer id?

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      Beard MasterAuthor
      Participant
      March 16, 2017

      Thanks for help Im browsing your topic right now:)

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