[davidm]

I've been learning about scripting OmniGraffle with AppleScript (and Ruby via rb-appscript). So far, things have been going great, but one thing I have not been able to figure out from the OmniGraffle AppleScript dictionary is how to determine which layer is currently active (i.e. has the little pencil icon to the left of it in the canvas/layer bar).

Does anyone know whether/where/how this info can be obtained via AppleScript?

Thanks,
Dave

Originally Posted by davidm

one thing I have not been able to figure out from the OmniGraffle AppleScript dictionary is how to determine which layer is currently active (i.e. has the little pencil icon to the left of it in the canvas/layer bar)

It does look as if the dictionary only offers Locked, Prints and Visible.

One for Help > Send Feedback ... in the main menu, I think.

(Not sure what your goal is, but perhaps you could try making an invisible new object at the beginning of the graphics of the canvas, test it to see which layer it had been placed on, and then delete it. To write to a particular layer, you can obviously lock down the others).


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[davidm]

Originally Posted by RobTrew

It does look as if the dictionary only offers Locked, Prints and Visible.

One for Help > Send Feedback ... in the main menu, I think.
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Thanks, I'll do that.

Originally Posted by RobTrew

(Not sure what your goal is, but perhaps you could try making an invisible new object at the beginning of the graphics of the canvas, test it to see which layer it had been placed on, and then delete it. To write to a particular layer, you can obviously lock down the others).
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Surprisingly, this does not work. My goal is to create a script that will plot a simple graph on the "current layer", but unless one directs the "make new line..." command at a specific layer it seems to always draw on the first layer of the canvas's "layer list" regardless of whether it has the "pencil" icon next to it. If I rearrange the layers to put the desired layer at the "front" of the layer list, then I can get it to where I want it, but rearranging the layers is not so convenient.

Thanks again,
Dave