Total number of layers?

[tonyrambler]

Is there a way to display or discover the total number of layers in a Designer image? This would include all of those concealed in groups as well as those that are separate.

Tony

[Old Bruce]

When using the Move tool you can see in the bottom right of the consolidated window the number of things selected. If you have a group you'll need to expand it and select all by using the layers panel. Even works for Adjustment layers etc if they are not nested to a layer.

Be great if there was a way of getting a count of everything. In Designer you can use the Select > Select Same > to get the number of Shapes, Text Layers, Open Curves but there is no Everything.

[carl123]

8 hours ago, tonyrambler said:

Is there a way to display or discover the total number of layers in a Designer image? This would include all of those concealed in groups as well as those that are separate.

Tony

Select > Select All
Layer > Ungroup All

Use the Move tool to Marquee select all objects on the canvas. The total number of objects will be displayed. (Excludes adjustment layers in the total)

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Select > Select All
Layer > Ungroup All

Use the Move tool to Marquee select all objects on the canvas. The total number of objects will be displayed. (Excludes adjustment layers in the total)

Unfortunately, Select > Select All will not select locked layers.

[carl123]

4 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Unfortunately, Select > Select All will not select locked layers.

Layer > Unlock all

[R C-R]

21 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Layer > Unlock all

So I think the order for the quickest result should be Unlock All first, Ungroup All next, then Select All, with the Move Tool selected ... & probably followed by some undos to return everything back to the way it was?

[tonyrambler]

Thanks (old) Bruce.

Select Object has just solved it, in fact. I'd overlooked both Select XYZ features completely (haven't kept up with all the features…) so thanks.

The answer for this one piece seems to be 3138 objects. For some reason it won't respond to Select Vector Layers or Curves at all but it will happily select all Transparent Objects. Thankfully, every single layer has transparency except the background colour rectangle.

Tony

 

[tonyrambler]

Re: the other suggestions:

Regarding Select All, Ungroup All etc., I just tried that now and on this image it is a big job.

Ungroup All only ungroups the top level groups each time, and this pic has multiple nests up to 6 deep all over it—possibly over a hundred of them—which remain grouped, so I'd have to dig into each nest and Ungroup All over and over again…………………………… nah.

Thanks all.

[v_kyr]

17 hours ago, tonyrambler said:

Is there a way to display or discover the total number of layers in a Designer image? This would include all of those concealed in groups as well as those that are separate.

Well, basically it shouldn't be such a big deal for the Serif devs to also offer such a "count all layers" function by iterating through the layers panel internal data structure recursively (...in which case all groups/compounds are also run through and counted). - Ideally the amount result would then be shown up best in manner, that it can then also be copied over to the clipboard for reference purposes.

[R C-R]

11 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Well, basically it shouldn't be such a big deal for the Serif devs to also offer such a "count all layers" function by iterating through the layers panel internal data structure recursively (...in which case all groups/compounds are also run through and counted). - Ideally the amount result would then be shown up best in manner, that it can then also be copied over to the clipboard for reference purposes.

Sounds like a good idea for feature request to me.

[MikeTO]

The day that we get scripting support I'm going to write a document statistics script, assuming the necessary scripting features are added. It would be a good first script to write.

I'll include # of layers in this script.

[v_kyr]

43 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

assuming the necessary scripting features are added

Let's emphasize this so the responsible developers notice it too ! 😉