BEFORE_AFTER_Show_Hide not worke true in photoshop

Photoshop
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Hello, everyone .
I want to help find a solution to make the following code.

`const BEFORE_AFTER_Show_Hide = async () => {
  let wantedLayer = "BEFORE_AFTER"
  const layers = await require("photoshop").app.activeDocument.layers;
    for (layer of layers) {
        if (layer.name == wantedLayer) {
            //dostuff
            layer.name.visible = !layer.name.visible
        }
    }
    console.log("BEFORE_AFTER_Show_Hide Result!!!")
}`

The code in the console works fine, when the button is pressed.
Evidence:

2
2988×540 13 KB

But in Photoshop it does not respond to the command.
Evidence:
1
11920×984 173 KB

My Photoshop version:24.2.0
What I want the code to do is show and hide the name of the selected layer within the code only when the button is pressed.
With regards…
Mohamed Fathi…

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  1. Your posted screenshots doesn’t actually prove anything, because in one the code itself is missing and in the other it’s just a layer list without any buttons
  2. What is layer.name.visible? Where did you find such property?
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looke

4

I don’t think there is any way that you can hide the layer name. There is definitely no layer.name.visible method.
I guess you could rename the layer with an empty string, I’ve never tried so I don’t know if PS accepts a layer with no name.

5

to fix your code change this:

layer.name.visible = !layer.name.visible

to this

layer.visible = !layer.visible

however here’s a shorter way without using loop:

const app = require("photoshop").app
const BEFORE_AFTER_Show_Hide = async () => {
    const layers = app.activeDocument.layers;
    let wantedLayer = layers.getByName("BEFORE_AFTER");
    wantedLayer.visible = !wantedLayer.visible;
}
6

I’m guessing he wants to hide the layer itself using its name.

7

Yeah … Yeah … Yeah.
Thank you, Maher, yes, that’s exactly who I am you’re a super hero. :man_lifting_weights: :wine_glass:

8

Ah, I assumed it was just hiding the name based on @Mohamad already having solved hiding a layer by name yesterday. :rofl:

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Thanks for your reply, Timothy.
Yesterday I wanted to hide the layer inside a group, but in my case today I wanted to hide the layer outside the group, it was in the work file as a whole.
As my friend, I’m basically not a programmer, it’s just a hobby I have , I’m trying to develop it, and I know this only comes over time, learning and delving into the programming sea.I respect your work as a programmer, but I’m a hobby, I have my own plugin, which is in CEP format, and now I’m converting to uxp format.
I work my main job as a chartered accountant at Ford Motor Company, and I have two master’s degrees in accounting (Cost Accounting + Management Accounting).
With regards…
Mohamed Fathi… :wine_glass:

10

Oh, I meant no offence! I was just pointing out why I’d assumed you meant to hide the layer name and not the layer.
I know only too well the struggle of self-instruction :joy:

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I know my friend
I always like to meet new friends
I was pleased to meet you all on this forum.
And I respect all of you and I hope to be a friend to all of you :wine_glass:

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