Unfortunately jb_draw_center_of_artboard.zip doesn’t download correctly. :(

Have a nice day.

are you using just native as3? or import some other engines?

I’ve been tinkering with it myself (already added some niceties like a “pad digits function” – so layers are always numbered tidily), but so far, no joy. I’ve tried reversing the order the main loop traverses the selectedLayers index, but that doesn’t seem to affect the end result.

Here’s my latest version:

/*

Author: Johan Borgström
Web: http://www.theshapeofmotion.com

Name: jb_distribute_to_layers.jsx
Date: 2010 01 19
Version: 1.0

Function: Distributes the selected items to new layers.
Arguments: None
Return Value: None

*/

try
{
if (app.documents.length > 0 ) main();

else throw new Error(‘There are no document open!’);
}

catch(e)
{
alert( e.message, “Script Alert”, true);
}

// lil “Pad digits” function
function padDigits(n, totalDigits)
{
n = n.toString();
var pd = “”;
if (totalDigits > n.length)
{
for (v=0; v < (totalDigits-n.length); v++)
{
pd += "0";
}
}
return pd + n.toString();
}

// function: number of digits in a number – force number to a string then get length
function numberOfDigits(n) {
return Number(String(n).length);
}

function main()
{
var myProject = app.project; // declare the project name
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var mySelectArray= myDoc.selection;

displayWindow();

function displayWindow()
{
myWidth = 200;
myHeight= 110;

dlg = new Window('dialog', 'Distribute to Layers');
dlg.size = [myWidth, myHeight];

dlg.panel = dlg.add('panel', undefined, 'Layer Name');

dlg.layerName = dlg.panel.add('edittext', undefined,undefined); // editable text
dlg.layerName.preferredSize = [myWidth-60,20];

dlg.btn = dlg.panel.add('button', undefined, 'Distribute '); // btn
dlg.btn.alignment = 'left';
dlg.btn.onClick = doDistribute;

dlg.show();
}

function doDistribute()
{
if (dlg.layerName.text < 1)
{
alert('Please give me a Layer Name !');
return;
}

if (mySelectArray.length < 1)
{
alert('Please Select some Items to Distribute !');
return;
}

var totalLayers = Number(mySelectArray.length);
var numberOfLayerNameDigits = numberOfDigits(totalLayers);

for ( i = 0; i < totalLayers; i++ )
{
var newLayer = myDoc.layers.add();
var targetObjectIndex = (-1 + totalLayers – i);
var mySelName = mySelectArray[targetObjectIndex].name;
newLayer.name = (dlg.layerName.text+'_'+ padDigits(targetObjectIndex,numberOfLayerNameDigits));
mySelectArray[i].move(newLayer,ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
}

dlg.close();
}

}