Scriptographer.org - activeDocument.layers["name"]...

Since Illustrator has sublayers, it would be nice to be able to call these with:
activeDocument.layers["name"].layers["name"]

Right now I'm doing the following:

for(var i=0; i<activeDocument.layers.length; i++){
	for(l=0; l<activeDocument.layers[i].children.length; l++){
		if(activeDocument.layers[i].children[l].name=="str"){
			l=activeDocument.layers[i].children.length;
			addTileset(activeDocument.layers[i]);
		}
	}
}

But it would be much handier like:

for(var i=0; i<activeDocument.layers.length; i++){
	if(activeDocument.layers[i].layers["str"]){
		addTileset(activeDocument.layers[i]);
	}
}

Or/and make it possible to point to a child by name, which would be extremely handy also:

activeDocument.layers["Layer 1"].children["childname"]

I hope I have my facts straight on this one!

Just to make clear why this would be very handy for me:

I'm working on a tool that makes use of user designed tiles that are basically art objects in layers.

To be able to have multiple Tilesets, I thought it would be a good idea to use sublayers.

So you'll have a layer layout like

(layer) Tiles
	(layer) Tilesetname
		(layer) hor
			(art)horizontal tile
			(art)horizontal tile 2 etc.
		(layer) ver
		(layer) tl
		(layer) tr
		(layer) bl
		(layer) br
		(layer) str
	(layer) Another Tilesetname
		(layer) hor
		(layer) ver
		(layer) tl
		(layer) tr
		(layer) bl
		(layer) br
		(layer) str

I would like to: activeDocument.layers["Tiles"].layers[selectedTileset].layers["hor"].children[index]

It's only a cleaner way, really.

And being able to select the children by name could also be cool.
Right now I'm using the top-most tile, so if you want a different horizontal tile you have to move it to the top of the layer list.
In stead, I could make popuplists with the names of the children.

Anyway, for now I will develop using for-loops to get to the correct sublayers/children.

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