Thank you Paul,
That worked perfectly!!
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- August 12th, 2011, 7:16 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: [solved] Add Fill Color to Text Animator
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12310
- April 20th, 2011, 11:05 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: set a new activeItem for {app.executeCommand()}
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19549
Re: set a new activeItem for {app.executeCommand()}
Thanks Dan, I'll give that a try... Can't say I fully understand the whole rectAtTime thing... It's hard to visualize. I know that when I select the text layer the bounding box selection is around the text itself.
Would love to find a visual explanation of it.
Would love to find a visual explanation of it.
- April 19th, 2011, 5:02 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: set a new activeItem for {app.executeCommand()}
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19549
Re: set a new activeItem for {app.executeCommand()}
I just got schooled. Here is the result. Nice clean, elegant text layer fitting //Get Text Layer Width var myTextLayer = compElement.layers var rect = myTextLayer.sourceRectAtTime(1, true); var TextWidth = rect.width; //If the layer is too big, scale it down if(TextWidth > targetW){ var Y = (100*(t...
- April 18th, 2011, 1:32 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: How do you access shape layer properties??
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5714
How do you access shape layer properties??
I've figured out how to add a shape layer to a comp but am unclear how to add a shape to the layer. How do I add a rectangle to the shape layer and access properties for the rectangle like; size, position, roundness? How do I add a stroke to the rectangle and access it's properties? The API has no i...
- April 6th, 2011, 1:56 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: app.onError - Anyone experience problems with this?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5967
Re: app.onError - Anyone experience problems with this?
I figured out that if the project contains no errors that it pops up alerts for each progress. Apparently, there is something called error severity. Some of the error severities are NAKED, PROGRESS and PROBLEM. Anyone know where I can find documentation on the different severity types? This script w...
- April 6th, 2011, 12:55 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: app.onError - Anyone experience problems with this?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5967
app.onError - Anyone experience problems with this?
I'm using this code to primarily catch errors in the render (watch folder). (ie) Missing effects, fonts, etc... It works but it also wants to prompt me for everything it is doing, as in non-error functions. (ie) When opening project, where it is saving render, etc. It seemed to work yesterday and no...
- October 13th, 2010, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Script requests
- Topic: Font search
- Replies: 22
- Views: 46082
Re: Font search
Thanks Paul
- October 13th, 2010, 12:07 pm
- Forum: Script requests
- Topic: Font search
- Replies: 22
- Views: 46082
Re: Font search
Thanks Paul- I was afraid of that.
Will the sourceRectAtTime determine the width of a pre-comp's alpha or does it just give you the width of the comp itself?
Will the sourceRectAtTime determine the width of a pre-comp's alpha or does it just give you the width of the comp itself?
- October 13th, 2010, 9:57 am
- Forum: Script requests
- Topic: Font search
- Replies: 22
- Views: 46082
Re: Font search
After Effects CS4 added more scripting support for text properties, but I don't think the documentation is available yet. Here's an example of how you'd query and change the font and font size: { // select a text layer before running this script var activeItem = app.project.activeItem; var theValue...
- September 8th, 2010, 4:14 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Parse CSV: Ignore First Line
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7822
Re: Parse CSV: Ignore First Line
Worked great Dan. Thank you...
- September 8th, 2010, 1:17 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Parse CSV: Ignore First Line
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7822
Parse CSV: Ignore First Line
I have a script that prompts the user to select a CSV file. The script then parses the CSV into a table. I'm not sure how to tell it to ignore the first line of the table. Here is the script: var table = new Array(); var lines = encoded_data.split(/\r*\n/); for (i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) { table...
- September 2nd, 2010, 4:57 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: [Solved] Move text with expression relative to parent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21909
Re: Move text with expression relative to parent
Dan you're brilliant! Works without a hitch! Thanks so much!
- September 2nd, 2010, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: [Solved] Move text with expression relative to parent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21909
Re: Move text with expression relative to parent
I just went through all the layers and turned off a glow effect on all the layers and that seems to have fixed the problem... Crazy...
Thank you very much for all your help Dan!
Thank you very much for all your help Dan!
- September 2nd, 2010, 2:05 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: [Solved] Move text with expression relative to parent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21909
Re: Move text with expression relative to parent
This works perfectly! I'm getting some hitch in the animation though. At some point in the animation (no association with a key frame) the last name moves towards the first name and then away within two frames and the note line does the same towards the last name and then away.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
- September 1st, 2010, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: [Solved] Move text with expression relative to parent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21909
Re: Move text with expression relative to parent
I checked and they are both justified left. I tested the expression again by creating a new project with just the first and last name. It worked perfectly but I found the problem. It works when I have the last name parented to the first name but when I add another text layer and parent it to the las...