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Inspiring
May 29, 2017
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Unlocking sublayers - Applescript

  • May 29, 2017
  • 6 replies
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Hi ACP's,

This is Prem. Good day to you.

I am trying to unlock all the layers by using the below script

"set the properties of every layer to {locked:false}"

But the problem is sublayers are not unlocked.

Please help

Thanks,

Prem

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Correct answer prema56615405

Got the correct answer in applescript. Thanks to Silly-V and Loic.Aigon.

I have combined your both the scripts and putting below:

on unlockLayer(subjectLayer)

  local thisSubLayer

  tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

  set the properties of subjectLayer to {locked:false}

  if (count of layers in subjectLayer) > 0 then

  repeat with i from 1 to count of layers in subjectLayer

  set thisSubLayer to layer i in subjectLayer

  -- set the properties of thisSubLayer to {locked:false}

  my unlockLayer(thisSubLayer)

  end repeat

  end if

  end tell

end unlockLayer

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

  local thisLayer, activeDoc

  if (count of documents) > 0 then

  set activeDoc to front document

  repeat with i from 1 to count of layers of activeDoc

  -- set the properties of layer i of front document to {locked:false}

  set thisLayer to layer i of front document

  -- set the properties of thisLayer to {locked:false}

  my unlockLayer(thisLayer)

  end repeat

  end if

end tell

6 replies

Loic.Aigon
Loic.Aigon
Legend
June 7, 2017

Hi

Great ! I understand now why my recursive call didn't work. It needed the "my" command obviously. Applescriot has its own logic

Apart from that, I got an execution error at first:

But then I commented out "as layer" like this

set thisLayer to layer i of front document --as layer

And it ended working.

Good work

    prema56615405
    prema56615405AuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    June 7, 2017

    Got the correct answer in applescript. Thanks to Silly-V and Loic.Aigon.

    I have combined your both the scripts and putting below:

    on unlockLayer(subjectLayer)

      local thisSubLayer

      tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

      set the properties of subjectLayer to {locked:false}

      if (count of layers in subjectLayer) > 0 then

      repeat with i from 1 to count of layers in subjectLayer

      set thisSubLayer to layer i in subjectLayer

      -- set the properties of thisSubLayer to {locked:false}

      my unlockLayer(thisSubLayer)

      end repeat

      end if

      end tell

    end unlockLayer

    tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

      local thisLayer, activeDoc

      if (count of documents) > 0 then

      set activeDoc to front document

      repeat with i from 1 to count of layers of activeDoc

      -- set the properties of layer i of front document to {locked:false}

      set thisLayer to layer i of front document

      -- set the properties of thisLayer to {locked:false}

      my unlockLayer(thisLayer)

      end repeat

      end if

    end tell

      pixxxelschubser
      Community Expert
      pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 7, 2017

      All seems to be ok.

      But only for interest: did someone try the code in my post #12 ? (I know, this is not pure AppleScript )

        Loic.Aigon
        Loic.Aigon
        Legend
        June 3, 2017

        yes that's what i offered in my second reply. But pur friend seems obssesed with applescript

        Silly-V
        Silly-V
        Legend
        June 3, 2017

        Hey Guys! Awesome, I was able to help get this figured out with a clue from this AppleScript expert I met! Turns out, that tell block also needs to be inside the function too.

        Then, I was having a personal error because I was trying to get "layer i of layers of thisLayer", while the syntax it likes is instead "layer i of thisLayer".

        Have fun yall!

        on unlockLayer(subjectLayer)

          local thisSubLayer

          tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

          set the properties of subjectLayer to {locked:false}

          if (count of layers in subjectLayer) > 0 then

          repeat with i from 1 to count of layers in subjectLayer

          set thisSubLayer to layer i in subjectLayer

          -- set the properties of thisSubLayer to {locked:false}

          my unlockLayer(thisSubLayer)

          end repeat

          end if

          end tell

        end unlockLayer

        tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

          local thisLayer, activeDoc

          if (count of documents) > 0 then

          set activeDoc to front document

          repeat with i from 1 to count of layers of activeDoc

          -- set the properties of layer i of front document to {locked:false}

          set thisLayer to layer i of front document as layer

          -- set the properties of thisLayer to {locked:false}

          my unlockLayer(thisLayer)

          end repeat

          end if

        end tell

        Loic.Aigon
        Loic.Aigon
        Legend
        June 2, 2017

        I tried recursivity with no luck. The editor won't allow the call inside some function scope.

        curious about this

          pixxxelschubser
          Community Expert
          pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          June 3, 2017

          Hi Loic.Aigon​,

          why not using your own suggestion? This should do the job exactly.

          I don't know the AppleScript syntax, but it should be something like that pseudocode

          set js to "var doc = app.activeDocument; unlockLayers ( doc.layers ); var unlockLayers = function ( layers ) {var n = layers.length, layer; while ( n-- ) { layer = layers; layer.locked = false; layer.layers.length && unlockLayers ( layer.layers ); }};"
          tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
              do javascript js
          end tell

          Have fun

          Loic.Aigon
          Loic.Aigon
          Legend
          June 2, 2017

          Probably possible but gave it a try with no success and to be honest too time consuming. I can't think of a reason where I could prefer using Applescript over Javascript unless of course I need to drive external apps or system commands. But even them, I would use do javascript for Illustrator.

          Feel free to explain me why you are such in need for an applescript

          FWIW

          Loic

          Silly-V
          Silly-V
          Legend
          June 2, 2017

          One of the Creative Developer Summit attendees is an AppleScript expert! I had asked him for help, but have not yet had the chance to send him my sample code to figure out why it's not working.

          Loic.Aigon
          Loic.Aigon
          Legend
          June 2, 2017

          That would not work with deeper nested layers

          prema56615405
          prema56615405Author
          Inspiring
          June 2, 2017

          Yes. You are correct.

          Do you have any solution in applescript for this?

          Loic.Aigon
          Loic.Aigon
          Legend
          May 29, 2017

          Here is a JS approach :

          var doc = app.activeDocument;
          var unlockLayers = function ( layers ) {
            var n = layers.length, layer;
            while ( n-- ) {
            layer = layers;
            layer.locked = false;
            layer.layers.length && unlockLayers ( layer.layers );
            }
          }
          unlockLayers ( doc.layers );

          HTH

          Loic

            prema56615405
            prema56615405Author
            Inspiring
            May 29, 2017

            Actually i need the apple script.

            Loic.Aigon
            Loic.Aigon
            Legend
            May 29, 2017
             tell application "Finder"
              set f to choose file
              set {nExt} to ({name extension} of f)
            end tell
            if nExt = "jsx" then
              tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
              if (count of documents) > 0 then
              do javascript f
              end if
              end tell
            end if
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