Number of selected objects.

Question

Hello,
is there an option to see how many objects I have included in my selection?
Peter "Insomnia" Spier - any ideas?
Paul

Answer 1

I do have work to do. Really!
But playing is more fun...
This displays the levels of nesting (if any):
// Change the following line to false if you want groups listed as single objects
var getGroupObjects = true;
var sel = app.selection;
if(!sel || sel.length==0){
    alert("No Objects Selected");
    exit();
nestedLevels = 0;
var objectNames = GetObjectNames(sel,getGroupObjects,0);
objectNames.sort().reverse();
var alertText = ""+ objectNames.length +" Objects Selected";
if(nestedLevels){
    if(nestedLevels == 1){
        alertText = alertText += " (1 Level of Nesting)";
    else{
        alertText = alertText +" ("+ nestedLevels + " Levels of Nesting)";
alertText+=":\r"
var lastName = objectNames.pop();
var curName = "";
var i=1;
while(objectNames.length){
    curName = objectNames.pop();
    if(curName == lastName){
        i++;
    } else {
        alertText += i + " " + lastName +"s\r";
        lastName = curName;
        i=1;
alertText += i + " " + lastName +"s\r";
alert(alertText);
function GetObjectNames(objs,getGroupObjects,level){
    var retVal = [];
    for(var i=0;i<objs.length;i++){
        if(getGroupObjects && objs[i].constructor.name == "Group"){
            level++;
            if(level>nestedLevels){nestedLevels=level}
            retVal = retVal.concat(GetObjectNames(objs[i].pageItems.everyItem().getElements(),getGroupObjects,level))
        else{
            retVal.push(objs[i].constructor.name);
    return retVal;
Harbs