Worksheet of Layers in File

[Pat Stanford 1,031]

A member on the Vectorworks mail list asked about how to get the design layer names into an Excel worksheet. The following script makes a VW Worksheet of the Design Layer names and opens it. You can then copy/paste the layer names as needed.

This is not a two-way worksheet. If you edit the names in the worksheet it will not change the names of the layers.

Lightly tested, but use at your own risk. Backup early and often.

Pat

Procedure DesignLayers_to_Worksheet;
{Make a worksheet listing all of the design layers in a VW file}
{Lists both used and unused layers}
{The worksheet is named "Layers:"with and appended date}
{Sorts layers in alphabetical order prior to storing in worksheet}
{March 19, 2015}
{© 2015,2010, 2008, Pat Stanford pat@coviana.com}
{Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License}

var	H1, H2:	Handle;
N1, N2:	LongInt;
LayerSort : Array[1..1024] of string;

Begin
H2:=FLayer;
N2:=1;

While H2 <> nil do
	Begin
		If GetObjectVariableInt(H2,154)= 1 then
			Begin
				LayerSort[N2]:=GetLName(H2);
				N2:= N2 + 1;
			End;
		H2:=NextLayer(H2);
	End;

{Add Curly Braces (comment out) the next line to not sort the layers by name}
SortArray(LayerSort,N2-1,0);  

H1:=CreateWS(Concat('Layers:',date(2,1)),N2,2);
For N1:= 1 to  N2-1 do SetWSCellFormula(H1,N1+1,1,N1+1,1,LayerSort[N1]);	

SetWSCellFormula(H1,1,1,1,1,'Layers in File');

ShowWS(H1,True);

End;

Run(DesignLayers_to_Worksheet);

[Francois Levy 19]

Thank you Pat!