[SOLVED] how can I retrieve Photoshop artlayer names from specific sub-layerset into an array?

how can I retrieve Photoshop artlayer names from specific sub-layerset into an array?

I have a Photoshop PSD document which has a layerset named “Flags“. “Flags” has a sub-layerset called “LEFT-Flags“ which itself contains artlayers, each with a national flag image. The number of these artlayers is currently around 40 - but will increase over time.

As an ExtendScript newbie, may I ask how - in ExtendScript - can I extract the NAMES of each of the artlayers to an array please?

Solution

Basically it can be done this way:

var layers = app.activeDocument
    .layerSets['Flags']
    .layerSets['LEFT-Flags']
    .artLayers;

var names = [];
for (var i=0; i<layers.length; i++) names.push(layers[i].name);

// put the names into a txt file and open the file
var f = File(Folder.temp + '/layers_names.txt');
f.open('w');
f.encoding = 'UTF-8';
f.write(names.join('\n'));
f.close();
f.execute();

The array names will contain the names.

But I don't know what you want to do with this array. Do you mean to save it as a TXT file?