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Anonymous
January 9, 2013
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Selecting Only Visible Layers

  • January 9, 2013
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I am a beginner scripter trying to find a way to hide all the layers in a document.  The document has hundreds of layers so selecting all and then hiding all takes way too long to run.  Is there a way to simlply hide all or select only the layers that are visible and then hide?

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Correct answer Paul Riggott

Here is one way to turn all layers visibility off ...

//select top layer
activeDocument.activeLayer = activeDocument.layers[0];
 
//toggle all other layers visibility off 
toggleVisability();
 
//toggle this layers visibility off
activeDocument.activeLayer.visible=false;
 
//This function is the same as Alt/Click on a layers eye
function toggleVisability() {
var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
var list1 = new ActionList();
var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '),charIDToTypeID('Ordn'),charIDToTypeID('Trgt') ); 
list1.putReference( ref );
desc.putList( charIDToTypeID('null'), list1 );
desc.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('TglO'), true );
executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Shw '), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};

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Paul Riggott
Paul RiggottCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 9, 2013

Here is one way to turn all layers visibility off ...

//select top layer
activeDocument.activeLayer = activeDocument.layers[0];
 
//toggle all other layers visibility off 
toggleVisability();
 
//toggle this layers visibility off
activeDocument.activeLayer.visible=false;
 
//This function is the same as Alt/Click on a layers eye
function toggleVisability() {
var desc = new ActionDescriptor();
var list1 = new ActionList();
var ref = new ActionReference();
ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '),charIDToTypeID('Ordn'),charIDToTypeID('Trgt') ); 
list1.putReference( ref );
desc.putList( charIDToTypeID('null'), list1 );
desc.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID('TglO'), true );
executeAction( charIDToTypeID('Shw '), desc, DialogModes.NO );
};
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Anonymous
January 9, 2013

Thank you sir.

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boo_radley_2013
Inspiring
August 18, 2013

is there a way to do this so that it turn all layers 'ON' instead of 'off' ?

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