Timeline.selectedLayers

Gets the selected layers of a Timeline

The native function getSelectedLayers() only returns layer indices, which is a bit frustrating when you want to just go ahead and interrogate the layer objects. This JavaScript getter allows you to get the layers in one line of code.

The following example inspect the current timeline's selected layers as native Layer objects:

var layers = $timeline.selectedLayers;
inspect(layers, 2);

Inspect: Array (depth:2, objects:4, values:18, time:0.0 seconds)
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array => Array
	[0] => Layer
		 name: "square"
		 layerType: "normal"
		 visible: true
		 locked: false
		 frameCount: 60
		[frames] => Array
		 color: "#ff4fff"
		 height: 100
		 outline: false
		 parentLayer: null
	[1] => Layer
		 name: "star"
		 layerType: "normal"
		 visible: true
		 locked: false
		 frameCount: 58
		[frames] => Array
		 color: "#ff800a"
		 height: 100
		 outline: false
		 parentLayer: null

LibraryItem.shortName

The short name of an item

Unfortunately, the Item name property in Flash behaves differently if you are getting or setting it:

• Getting the name, returns the full path to the item
• Setting the name sets only the end segment of the path, what we might see as the item name

The new shortName getter lets you get only this end segment of the item's name, and not the full path, in one line of code.

The following example gets both the native name and the xJSFL shortName of the selected item:

var item = $$(':selected').get(0);

trace(item.name);
trace(item.shortName);

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