New Filled Adjustment Layer - Easiest Way to Do This?

Is this the easiest way to create a new Filled Mask Adjustment Layer programmatically? (aside from hitting a keyboard shortcut)


tell application "Capture One 11"
	set SelectedVariants to selected variants
	repeat with a from 1 to count of SelectedVariants
		set thisVariant to item a of SelectedVariants
					
		set LayerNames to name of every layer of item 1 of thisVariant
		set layerCount to count of LayerNames
					
		set newLayerName to make new layer of thisVariant with properties {name:"Filled Layer " & layerCount}
		set layerName to name of newLayerName
					
		tell layer layerName of thisVariant
			fill mask
		end tell
					
	end repeat
end tell

Obviously, there is some extra code in there so I could name the layer how I want and number the layers, but wanted to see if anyone had figured out some options quicker than: 1. Get the variant. 2. Create new layer. 3. Set variable to the newly created layer's name. 4. Fill that layer's mask. Just feels roundabout.

Eric Valk

7. Juni 2018 11:26

Hi Sean
Well you could certainly tighten up the code a bit.

If there was property of "layer" that included mask fill you could reduce the three "working" lines to two, but I don't see such a property.


tell application "Capture One 11"
	repeat with thisVariant in (get selected variants)
		set newLayerIndex to 1 + (count of every layer of thisVariant)
		make new layer of thisVariant with properties {name:"Filled Layer " & newLayerIndex}
		tell layer newLayerIndex of thisVariant to fill mask
	end repeat
end tell

or even better


tell application "Capture One 11"
	repeat with thisVariant in (get selected variants)
		set newLayerIndex to 1 + (count of every layer of thisVariant)
		set theNewLayer to make new layer of thisVariant with properties {name:"Filled Layer " & newLayerIndex}
		tell theNewLayer to fill mask
	end repeat
end tell

Sean Murphy

7. Juni 2018 13:46

Thanks for the code cleanup Eric! Great to see how these things can be tightened up, but at least I was correct in understanding that there wasn't a simpler line of code like you mention about a property of layer for mask fill.

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