Adobe photoshop cs 2.0 User Guide

 Scripting Photoshop CS2     55

if (newLayerRef.kind == LayerKind.TEXT)

The following examples add and right-justify text in a text layer.

set contents of text object of art layer "my text" to "Hello, World!"
set justification of text object of art layer "my text" of ¬

current document to right

Set textItemRef = artLayers("my text").TextItem
textItemRef.Contents = "Hello, World!"
docRef.ArtLayers("my text").TextItemRef.Justification = 3
'3 = psRight (for the constant value psJustification)

var textItemRef = artLayers["my text"].textItem
textItemRef.contents = "Hello, World!"
docRef.artLayers["my text"].textItemRef.justification =

Justification.RIGHT

The 

text item

 object has a 

kind

 property, which can be set to either 

point text 

/psPointText/TextType.POINTTEXT

/ or 

paragraph 

text/psParagraphText/TextType.PARAGRAPHTEXT

. When a new 

text item 

is created, its 

kind

 

property is automatically set to 

point text

.

The 

text item

 properties 

height, width

 and 

leading

 are valid only when the text item's 

kind

 

property is set to 

paragraph text.

To familiarize yourself with this objects, properties, and commands/methods in the scripting references, 
do the following:

●

In the Adobe Photoshop CS2 AppleScript Scripting Reference, look up the 

Class text-object

 

properties and methods. 

●

In the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Visual Basic Scripting Reference and the Adobe Photoshop CS2 JavaScript 
Scripting Reference, look up the 

TextItem

 property of the 

ArtLayer

 object. To find the properties 

and methods you can use with a text layer, look up the 

TextItem

 object. 

You create a 

Selection

 object to allow your scripts to act only on a specific, selected section of your 

document or a layer within a document. For example, you can apply effects to a selection or copy the 
current selection to the clipboard. 

The 

Selection

 object is a property of the 

Document

 object. Look up the following for more information:

●

In the Adobe Photoshop CS2 AppleScript Scripting Reference, look up 

select

 in the “Commands” chapter. 

Also, look up the 

selection

 property of the 

Class Document

 object and the 

Class 

selection-object

.