Applescript for Ai CS6, color set and get

Question

This is the last time I ask the question about Applescript - I see that this topic is unpopular since none of my questions has been answered. Probably I'm on the wrong way, but scripting for Illustrator seems to be very interesting and useful.

I found the way to set the color of a layer to RGB color -

set color of current layer in current document to {red:45.0, green:34.0, blue:34.0}

however, when I immediately execute this line of code -

set currentColor to color of current layer in current document

In the RESULTS window I get long numbers like these -

{class:RGB color info, red:45.000001117587, green:34.000001773238, blue:34.000001773238}

Thus, I cannot perform comparing operation between the colors.

Any suggestions about color formatting, rounding the numbers/totals to the way I can compare current color with desirable one.

Answer 1

So, in computer programming terms, the kind of numbers you have are called floating point numbers (sometimes they're called real numbers, too). The kind of number that you want is called an integer. To convert a floating point number to an integer, you need to use the magic phrase as integer when getting your number.

It works like this:

set currentColor to color of current layer in current document
set redValue to red of currentColor as integer

Now you should get 45 for your red, not 45.000001117587.

This tutorial gives more information about the various types of data in AppleScript.

P.S. – You might have better luck getting answers to programming questions at Stack Overflow

Answer 2

I post the answer with the whole script, because Gramps asked for. This script recolors the layer label color to provided RGB code - reddish

tell application "Adobe Illustrator" 
  set layersCounter to count layers in current document
  display dialog "In current document there are " & layersCounter & " layers." & "Recolor layers label?"
  repeat until (layersCounter = 0)
  set color of layer layersCounter in current document to {red:255, blue:11, green:15}
  set layersCounter to layersCounter - 1
  end repeat
  end tell