Automation plugin, accessing documents info, layers, hierarchies.

[Dariusz1989]

Hey

I'm trying to access all my documents in my ps session & perform some actions on layers/hierarchies. Get hierarchy of each document with group/layer/adjustment info etc etc.

How can I do it in the automation plugin?

I've looked at sdk docs/etc but I can't find info there on it.

I found out that a filter (Poor Man's Type) can access some of the document data but it's not really what I need.

When I tried to cast my message->d.globals into a similar struct, I get null, it's a null either way.

Pinging @Tom Ruark as he mentioned here > https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/export-plugin/m-p/1461128/thread-id/4... that its the right tool to go with.

I want to show/hide layers/ copy between docs/save document as psb/psd/jpg/etc/etc/etc. 

Regards

Dariusz

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Just curious, why have you chosen this path over scripting?

[Dariusz1989]

Hey

Because eventually, I will need pixel access of layers to perform some drawing/etc/etc and going with c++ is more efficient to make than scripts. Ideally, I would love to have some kind of object-based access like in javascript app/app.activedocument/etc/etc. But I don't see that here yet. 

Atm it seems like I can use action descriptor/reference to get stuff, but that feels backward in c++... I should just be able to get ptr to object or something. Or at least that's what I would like to see... well see what is what over the coming weeks.

In any case, any1 any ideas on how to get documents/layers/groups/etc out of c++ ? The automation plugin seems to use action description/ref to get some document info... not really the ReadImageDocumentDesc object...