Multiple selections

[Ghoulfool]

I have a white image with some black rectangles on it. The black rectanglest differ in size and number of rectangles per image. They can be selected via layermask.

In short: Does the DOM allow you to specify (a) the number of particular selections in a multiple selection and more importantly (b) are they held in an array so they each selection can be identified, isolated and then worked in in a script?

ie

select all rectangles
work out how many there are
loop over number in selection
     select rectangle
     process selection
end loop

If there isn't, then I'll have to work this out the hard way which'll involve looking over teh image pixel by pixel and identifying shapes.

[Michael_L_Hale]

With the DOM you can check is a selection is one contiguous area with the solid property but that is about it. Rather than checking pixel by pixel you could turn the selection into a temp path. Each of the seperate selected areas will be subpaths in that temp path. The number of subpaths would tell you how many rectangles were selected and you can check the pathPoints to determine the size and position of each rectangle.

[Ghoulfool]

Thanks, but it might be easier to view the image data after it's been saved out as bmp. The data needs to be pixel accurate and can't have any sub pixel info which might occour from getting a new work path