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Determining a Layer’s Kind, Adding and Manipulating Text in a Text Item Object

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Scripting Guide Photoshop CS3 Scripting Photoshop CS3 40 Determining a Layer's Kind The following examples use an if statement to check whether an existing layer is a text layer. AS if (kind of layerRef is text layer) then ... endif VBS If layerRef.Kind = 2 Then '2 indicates psTextLayer ... End If JS if (newLayerRef.kind == LayerKind.TEXT) {...} Adding and Manipulating Text in a Text Item Object The following examples add and right-justify text in a text layer. AS set layerRef to make new art layer in current document with properties¬ {kind:text layer} set contents of text object of layerRef to "Hello, World!" set justification of text object of layerRef to right VBS Set textLayerRef = docRef.ArtLayers.Add() textLayerRef.Kind = 2 textLayerRef.Name = "my text" Set textItemRef = docRef.ArtLayers("my text").TextItem textItemRef.Contents = "Hello, World!" textItemRef.Justification = 3 '3 = psRight (for the constant value psJustification) JS var textLayerRef = docRef.artLayers.add() textLayerRef.name = "my text" textLayerRef.kind = LayerKind.TEXT var textItemRef = docRef.artLayers["my text"].textItem textItemRef.contents = "Hello, World!" textItemRef.justification = Justification.RIGHT Note: The text-object (TextItem/TextItem) object has a kind (Kind/kind) property, which can be set to either point text (psPointText/TextType.POINTTEXT) or paragraph text

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Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Scripting Guide
Scripting Photoshop CS3
40
Determining a Layer’s Kind
The following examples use an
if
statement to check whether an existing layer is a text layer.
AS
if (kind of layerRef is text layer) then
...
endif
VBS
If layerRef.Kind = 2 Then '2 indicates psTextLayer
...
End If
JS
if (newLayerRef.kind == LayerKind.TEXT)
{...}
Adding and Manipulating Text in a Text Item Object
The following examples add and right-justify text in a text layer.
AS
set layerRef to make new art layer in current document with properties¬
{kind:text layer}
set contents of text object of layerRef to "Hello, World!"
set justification of text object of layerRef to right
VBS
Set textLayerRef = docRef.ArtLayers.Add()
textLayerRef.Kind = 2
textLayerRef.Name = "my text"
Set textItemRef = docRef.ArtLayers("my text").TextItem
textItemRef.Contents = "Hello, World!"
textItemRef.Justification = 3
'3 = psRight (for the constant value psJustification)
JS
var textLayerRef = docRef.artLayers.add()
textLayerRef.name = "my text"
textLayerRef.kind = LayerKind.TEXT
var textItemRef = docRef.artLayers["my text"].textItem
textItemRef.contents = "Hello, World!"
textItemRef.justification = Justification.RIGHT
Note:
The
text-object
(
TextItem
/
TextItem
) object has a
kind (Kind/kind)
property, which can
be set to either
point text (psPointText/TextType.POINTTEXT
) or
paragraph text