Scripting Animation Layers, Part2

[André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de>]

//Start rant

Hi, next try to do something useful with animation layers via scripting. 
Did I miss something or are there really only these five commands to 
deal with them:

GetCurrentAnimationLayer - Returns an integer
GetNumberOfAnimationLayers - Returns an integer
AddAnimationLayer - Does just that
DeleteAnimationLayer - Reference to Layer via - guess what - an integer
DuplicateAnimationLayer - Reference again via an integer

Of course, what I really need is decent OM access, however, I certainly 
could live with commands *if there was any way to reference animation 
layers by name*. I can't even seem to find out the name of the current 
animation layer. And, just to really make my day, I can't even move 
through the Mixer and pick up the required information from there, 
because Animation Layer Tracks are missing the Type property. Any 
attempt to filter out the layer tracks therefore crashes right away. 
(This is a bug, isn't it? I don't even want to think what this means for 
my Mixer tools in general...)

//End of rant

On a more constructive note, is there anyone who had success in 
associating layer names with layer indices and willing to share the 
recipe? I guess I could filter the AL tracks through error handling, 
something like

try{
   LogMessage(oTrack.Type);
}
catch(oError){
   LogMessage("Oups, we seem to have found an animation layer...");
}

but hey, there must be a better way...

Thanks for any piece of information on this topic. Cheers!

   -André

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