modify this code to (addtoselection)

[Mohamed Hameed]

Hello everyone and greetings to you
I found this code, which is for creating a selection for the selected layer
I want to modify the code to add another selection to the current selection
Meaning that I already have a layer selected and I want to select another layer next to the current selection
How can we help with this?
Thank you


selectActivePixels()

function cID (inVal) { return charIDToTypeID(inVal);}

function sID (inVal) { return stringIDToTypeID(inVal);}

function selectActivePixels(){

    var desc15 = new ActionDescriptor();

    var ref8 = new ActionReference();

    ref8.putProperty( cID( "Chnl" ), cID( "fsel" ) );

    desc15.putReference( cID( "null" ), ref8 );

    var ref9 = new ActionReference();

    ref9.putEnumerated( cID( "Chnl" ), cID( "Chnl" ), cID( "Trsp" ) );

    desc15.putReference( cID( "T   " ), ref9 );

    executeAction( cID( "setd" ), desc15, DialogModes.NO );

}

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Please post before and after screenshots of the layers panel to clearly illustrate the layer kinds, visibility and positions.

[Mohamed Hameed]

In the first image, a layer selection was created using code
I want to modify the code to add another selection next to the current selection that exists when selecting another layer

[r-bin]

Where you found it is the intersectActivePixels() function.

Replace cID("Intr") with cID("Add ").

[Mohamed Hameed · Accepted solution]

Well, I discovered where the problem was and solved it
Thank you for your interest in the matter

function cID (inVal) { return charIDToTypeID(inVal);}

function sID (inVal) { return stringIDToTypeID(inVal);}

function intersectActivePixels()

{

    var desc18 = new ActionDescriptor();

    var ref13 = new ActionReference();

    ref13.putEnumerated( cID( "Chnl" ), cID( "Chnl" ), cID( "Trsp" ) );

    desc18.putReference( cID( "null" ), ref13 );

    var ref14 = new ActionReference();

    ref14.putProperty( cID( "Chnl" ), cID( "fsel" ) );

    desc18.putReference( cID( "With" ), ref14 );

    executeAction( cID( "Add " ), desc18, DialogModes.NO );

}

intersectActivePixels()

[Stephen_A_Marsh · Accepted solution]

I'm sure that @r-bin has set you right, this is what I would have done using cleaned ScriptingListener code for the new selected/active layer:

addLayerSelToSel();

function addLayerSelToSel() {
	var s2t = function (s) {
		return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
	};
	var descriptor = new ActionDescriptor();
	var reference = new ActionReference();
	var reference2 = new ActionReference();
	reference.putEnumerated( s2t( "channel" ), s2t( "channel" ), s2t( "transparencyEnum" ));
	descriptor.putReference( s2t( "null" ), reference );
	reference2.putProperty( s2t( "channel" ), s2t( "selection" ));
	descriptor.putReference( s2t( "to" ), reference2 );
	executeAction( s2t( "add" ), descriptor, DialogModes.NO );
}