[curt.clifton]

Originally Posted by RobTrew

Generally, it seems a good idea not to lose sight of OF's built-in querying when drafting scripts - any flat list that can be automatically queried into existence in the content panel can be readily harvested through applescript ...

(and of course, we can save and restore states if we want to avoid GUI side-effects ...)

My experience is that changing and restoring the GUI states is more work and substantially slower than using recursion.