Changing Layer Color

[boo_radley_2013]

Hi, here's a script which changes the layer's color (the 'eye' icon) to blue:

function setCurrentLayerBlue() {

  function cTID(s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); };

  function sTID(s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s); };

    var desc5 = new ActionDescriptor();

        var ref3 = new ActionReference();

        ref3.putEnumerated( cTID('Lyr '), cTID('Ordn'), cTID('Trgt') );

    desc5.putReference( cTID('null'), ref3 );

        var desc6 = new ActionDescriptor();

        desc6.putEnumerated( cTID('Clr '), cTID('Clr '), cTID('Bl  ') );

    desc5.putObject( cTID('T   '), cTID('Lyr '), desc6 );

    executeAction( cTID('setd'), desc5, DialogModes.NO );

};

setCurrentLayerBlue();

and it works fine. But I can't get some of the other colors to work, such as Orange. I switched up the 'Blue' to 'Orange' and 'Blu' to "Orng' so I was hoping it would work but it isn't:

function setCurrentLayerOrange() {

  function cTID(s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); };

  function sTID(s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s); };

    var desc5 = new ActionDescriptor();

        var ref3 = new ActionReference();

        ref3.putEnumerated( cTID('Lyr '), cTID('Ordn'), cTID('Trgt') );

    desc5.putReference( cTID('null'), ref3 );

        var desc6 = new ActionDescriptor();

        desc6.putEnumerated( cTID('Clr '), cTID('Clr '), cTID('Orng  ') );

    desc5.putObject( cTID('T   '), cTID('Lyr '), desc6 );

    executeAction( cTID('setd'), desc5, DialogModes.NO );

};

setCurrentLayerOrange();

[Chuck Uebele]

Did you run scriptListener for each color, just to get the descriptor name?  Guessing is like trying to pick a safe combo.

[boo_radley_2013]

geez I didn't even think of that.. how could I forget... I'll try it and report back..

[boo_radley_2013]

worked fine... don't know why I didn't think of that in the first place..

here's another script which used to change the layer color to a darker green than the standard green:

function setCurrentLayerDarkGreen() {

  function cTID(s) { return app.charIDToTypeID(s); };

  function sTID(s) { return app.stringIDToTypeID(s); };

    var desc5 = new ActionDescriptor();

        var ref3 = new ActionReference();

        ref3.putEnumerated( cTID('Lyr '), cTID('Ordn'), cTID('Trgt') );

    desc5.putReference( cTID('null'), ref3 );

        var desc6 = new ActionDescriptor();

        desc6.putEnumerated( cTID('Clr '), cTID('Clr '), cTID('Gr  ') );

    desc5.putObject( cTID('T   '), cTID('Lyr '), desc6 );

    executeAction( cTID('setd'), desc5, DialogModes.NO );

};

setCurrentLayerDarkGreen();

..and it actually worked - it changed it to a deep green which isn't available as a standard color. But for some reason it won't work now.

Having said that, could there be a way to change the layer colors to other colors which aren't in the menu? (Pink, brown, or any other color we can think of) ?

[Michael_L_Hale]

..and it actually worked - it changed it to a deep green which isn't available as a standard color. But for some reason it won't work now.

It doesn't work for me. In fact if the layer already has a color this will set the color to none, removing the existing layer color.

Even if it did work I wouldn't recommend tying to do something that is not supported by the GUI. I think it might cause problems to have unexpected colors in the layer descriptor.

[boo_radley_2013]

yeah it used to work - I was fascinated when I could change the color to a deep green - I always thought we were restricted to the 7 default colors (red blue yellow green violet orange gray). I don't know what went wrong though... it may have had something to do with an earlier version of Photoshop but it won't run on a more recent version. Ah well, not a big deal