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the name argument to find a property that is multiple levels down
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Help Using Help Reference Back 159 Description This method finds and returns the child PropertyBase, using either its propertyIndex or its name. If using a string to provide the name argument, you may use any of the following: • Any name used in expressions "parenthesis style" syntax, meaning the display name or the compact English name • Any match name • Any expressions intercap sytax See below for examples of these various types of names. Essentially, the method replicates syntax available with expressions. In other words, the following are all allowed and are virtually interchangeable (where "mylayer" is an already identified layer): • mylayer.position • mylayer("position") • mylayer.property("position") as well as the following, which are also interchangeable with one another: • mylayer(1) • mylayer.property(1) • Note that some properties of a Layer, such as position and zoom, can be accessed only by name. When using the name argument to find a property that is multiple levels down, you will need to make more than one call of this method; for example, myLayer.property("ADBE Masks").property(1) will search two levels down, and return the first mask in the mask group. If no Property or PropertyGroup can be found with the given name, this method returns a value of null. Properties that can be accessed using this method with the name argument include: Properties that can be accessed by name from any Layer Properties that can be accessed by name from an AVLayer Properties that can be accessed by name from a camera layer • "ADBE Mask Parade", or "Masks" • "ADBE Effect Parade", or "Effects" • "ADBE MTrackers", or "Motion Trackers" • "Anchor Point" or "anchorPoint" • "Position" or "position" • "Scale" or "scale" • "Rotation" or "rotation" • "Z Rotation" or "zRotation" or "Rotation Z" or "rotationZ" • "Opacity" or "opacity" • "Marker" or "marker" • "Zoom" or "zoom" • "Depth of Field" or "depthOfField" • "Focus Distance" or "focusDistance" • "Aperture" or "aperture" • "Blur Level" or "blurLevel" Using Help Back 159