How to promote a certain image to the top of a stack?

[Sowiedu]

Hi,

I'm new at this so bear with me.

I have the following code:

#target bridge

	function StackIt() {
	var fileList = Folder(app.document.presentationPath).getFiles("*DIFFUSE*");
	for(var a in fileList){
	var firstFile = decodeURI(fileList.name.match(/[^_]*/));
	var filesToStack = Folder(app.document.presentationPath).getFiles("*"+firstFile+"*");
	app.document.deselectAll();
	for(var s in filesToStack){
	app.document.select(new Thumbnail(filesToStack));
	};
	app.document.chooseMenuItem("StackGroup");
	};
	};

StackIt();

which works liek a charm.

Now I want to make sure that in all the stacks, the image with the *DIFFUSE* name component is always shown at the top of the stack.

How would I go about that?

[I have gone · Accepted solution]

function StackIt() {
var fileList = Folder(app.document.presentationPath).getFiles("*DIFFUSE*");
    for(var a in fileList){
        var firstFile = decodeURI(fileList.name.match(/[^_]*/));
        var filesToStack = Folder(app.document.presentationPath).getFiles("*"+firstFile+"*");
        app.document.deselectAll();
    for(var s in filesToStack){
    app.document.select(new Thumbnail(filesToStack));
    if(filesToStack.name.match(/diffuse/gi)) diff = s;
    };
app.document.chooseMenuItem("StackGroup");
app.document.chooseMenuItem('ToggleStackStateOpen');
app.document.deselectAll();
app.document.select(new Thumbnail(filesToStack[diff]));
app.document.chooseMenuItem('PromoteToTopOfStack');
app.document.chooseMenuItem('ToggleStackStateClose');
    };
};

StackIt();

[Sowiedu]

Hey,

Thanks very much it works perfectly

Out of curiosity: What does the "/gi" in the name.match() mean?

Also is there a way to do it faster? As in processing time.

[I have gone]

I don't know if there is a faster way, I doubt it.

The "g" means global or more than one occurance of what you are trying to match.

T "i" means ignore case so can be uppercase/lowercase or mixed case.