Applescripting in Pixelmator Pro 2?

[Richard S.]

I have been looking to create some example scripts which would do simple things like rotate a selected object, but the AppleScript dictionary for Pixelmator Pro 2 seems to be limited to rotating the entire document??

Is it really not possible to rotate an object via AppleScript??

I created another script to add a basic vignette to a selected layer, but that also failed

Are there any example scripts for rotating objects and adding vignettes which anyone knows of - it would be much appreciated.

Thank you all in advance.

[Andrius]

Hey Richard, to rotate objects, you don't need a special command, you set the layer's rotation property. Like so:

tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
	tell the front document
		set the rotation of layer 1 to 45
	end tell
end tell

As for adding a vignette, that's one of the properties of the color adjustments of a layer and there are four in total: the vignette itself which is a boolean (true or false), and three properties which take integer values, i.e. vignette exposure, vignette black point, and vignette softness. So to simply enable the default vignette, you'd use:

tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
	tell the front document
		set the vignette of the color adjustments of layer 1 to true
	end tell
end tell

If you wanted to set all the options, the code would look something like this:

tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
	tell the front document
		set the vignette of the color adjustments of layer 1 to true
		set the vignette exposure of the color adjustments of layer 1 to 60
		set the vignette black point of the color adjustments of layer 1 to 10
		set the vignette softness of the color adjustments of layer 1 to 90
	end tell
end tell

And if you were to tidy that up a little to remove some repetition, it would look like this:

tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
	tell the front document
		tell the color adjustments of layer 1
			set its vignette to true
			set its vignette exposure to 60
			set its vignette black point to 10
			set its vignette softness to 90
		end tell
	end tell
end tell

[Richard S.]

Thank you so much Andrius - I appreciate you taking the time to help - now it makes more sense.

[Richard S.]

I created the script below, expecting it to rotate counter-clockwise, but it rotates clockwise?

tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
	tell the front document
		set the rotation of layer 1 to -90
	end tell
end tell

I also have this code which I expected to rotate clockwise, but it rotates counter clockwise?

tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
	tell the front document
		set the rotation of layer 1 to 90
	end tell
end tell

Unless I'm very much mistaken - this seems to be completely unintuitive, and illogical??

UPDATE:
This also happens when the arrange tool is selected, and you change the rotation from there!
Positive numbers rotate counter-clockwise, and negative numbers rotate clockwise!

Please tell me this is a bug, and not intentional???