Need help with an Adobe Illustrator script

[Sooxy]

Hello,

I am currently working on a project in Adobe Illustrator and I need help writing a script.

I would like to write a script that fills the closed shapes of a layer with the color of an image located on another parent layer named "Layer 2". However, I would like the content of the parent layer "Layer 2", even if it contains closed shapes, not to be affected by the script.

I started writing the script myself, but I encountered several errors that I cannot solve. Therefore, I am seeking help from the Adobe community to help me correct my script or write a new one.

Here is the script I have written so far:

var doc = app.activeDocument;

// Find the parent layer named "Layer 2"
var parentLayer = null;
for (var i = 0; i < doc.layers.length; i++) {
var layer = doc.layers[i];
if (layer.name == "Layer 2" && layer.parent == doc) {
parentLayer = layer;
break;
}
}

if (!parentLayer) {
alert("Parent layer 'Layer 2' not found");
} else {
var selectedItems = [];

// Loop through all page items
for (var i = 0; i < doc.pageItems.length; i++) {
var item = doc.pageItems[i];

// Check if the item is a closed path and not a compound path
if (item.typename == "PathItem" && item.pathPoints.length > 2 && !item.pathItems) {
// Check if the item is not on the parent layer
if (item.layer.parent != parentLayer) {

selectedItems.push(item);
}
}
}

// Get the color of the parent layer
var parentLayerColor = parentLayer.colorSamplingProperties.color.value;

// Loop through all selected closed paths and apply the background color
for (var i = 0; i < selectedItems.length; i++) {
var pathItem = selectedItems[i];
pathItem.filled = true;
pathItem.fillColor = parentLayerColor;
}
}

If you have any suggestions or solutions to solve the errors I am encountering, or if you can write a new script that meets my needs, I would be very grateful.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards, Nico G

[Sergey Osokin]

Could you please attach an image that shows what kind of result you are looking for? "the color of an image on another parent layer" - but in your code (by ChatGPT?) the "parentLayerColor" variable is looking for the color of the layer outliner, not some image.

If you want to apply Layer 2 outliner color to objects, replace the "var parentLayerColor = parentLayer.colorSamplingProperties.color.value" with "var parentLayerColor = parentLayer.color".

[Sooxy]

Thank you for your quick response. Indeed, I do not have any coding skills, and I have used Chat GPT to assist me.

Here is an example of what I would like as a result:

Ideally, I would like the geometric center of each shape to serve as a reference point for selecting the color behind it using a pipette tool.

Thank you very much for your help!

[Sergey Osokin]

There is no direct way to get color information about raster pixels. To do this, you have to look in the direction of the script created by @Inventsable : https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/scripting-tools-to-get-the-color-of-a-particu...

[Sooxy]

Thank you for your response. Is it possible to retrieve color information from an image that has been dynamically vectorized? That would be sufficient for me.