CS3: elements sorting of selection object
Hi people!
I think U know that in CS2 app.selection[0] always return LAST selected object
and app.selection[app.selection.length] return FIRST selected object
its logically good way.
but in CS3 Adobe changed this order. And now sorting of objects in this array depend not from selection order.
now question: how to determine the first and last selected object in CS3?
Му collection of cs2 scripts be based on this behoviour.
Did anybody know how to solve this problem. May be exist simple way via javascript? Or harder - via third party plugins...
Help please!
>now question: how to determine the first and last selected object in CS3?
Unfortunately, you can no longer do that in CS3. I don't know of any workarounds.
Peter
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