[image] Here I was trying out from an example UXP plugin, and I assigned this function to the second button “WoopsYeah”, which worked well until I add “.name” to the red rect place. It seems to have a stop at Row 24 if “.name” is added and Const b would not be printed, albeit Const c is not used. …

What is c without a .name? Nevermind :slight_smile: activeDocument does not have a property named activeLayer. That’s what I was talking about. You should get undefined for c without a .name. Property you should use is activeLayers, which is a collection (array of layers). So if you want only one…

Why can't I simply get activeLayer.name?

Photoshop UXP Plugin API

Jolene November 16, 2021, 5:42pm 3

I got “15” as printed in “Output”, that went well. And I’m pretty sure I do have selected one and only one artLayer so there should be no way of app.activeDocument.activeLayer returnning undefined.

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Why can't I simply get activeLayer.name?

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