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- May 4th, 2005, 12:34 pm
- Forum: Script requests
- Topic: Autosave
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13451
Unfortunately the problem is that there is no timer/interrupt facility exposed through scripting. Also, there isn't a threading model that could be used to implement a crude polling approach. Thus, entering in to a loop will block until termination. In the case of an infinite loop, AE will appear to...
- April 5th, 2005, 3:04 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Setting a property vs calling a property's method
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13082
- April 3rd, 2005, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Great new scripting resource
- Replies: 11
- Views: 20055
The SDK takes a bit of getting used to. There are some areas that are well document and others that are hardly documented at all. Some of the APIs that are in C++ are being deprecated in favor of C while other suites in C are being newly wrapped in C++. You can write everything in C using the C++ an...
- March 10th, 2005, 1:31 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: propertyValueType query
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11965
- February 25th, 2005, 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Scripts Library
- Topic: Script UI Helpers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 27881
A while back I updated UILayout to provide more features and a more pleasing layout. The new and improved code should be compatible with any code using the previously available version. New features include flow breaks and text layout that fits to the string length. Since there is no way to access t...
- February 25th, 2005, 3:44 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: best program to write scripts in?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25497
You are welcome to download the syntax definition file at http://www.petertorpey.com/files/ae/scripts/aejsx.syn.
Peter
Peter
- February 25th, 2005, 3:41 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
- Replies: 62
- Views: 126401
For those brave souls like Byron, I have put this version of the plug-in up at http://www.petertorpey.com/files/ae/TextInfo.aex . Windows only. As mentioned, it is buggy and doesn't work in most instances where I had hoped it would be useful. Try it on a non-text AV Layer for some interesting inform...
- February 24th, 2005, 1:43 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
- Replies: 62
- Views: 126401
For the record, I took Shinjipierre's advice and wrote a plug-in that would return the actual width and height of a Text Layer... almost. The way Text Layers are implemented, the layer is actually the size of the comp and never moves. The text is then rendered onto that layer by the text engine. Thi...
- February 7th, 2005, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: readln() for a certain line
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8717
If all of the lines have have the same number of bytes or if line 11 (per the example) is always n many bytes from the start of the file, you could use seek(). Otherwise, readln() seems like the best approach. A little function goToLine() could be helpful: function goToLine(fileF /* open File object...
- February 2nd, 2005, 12:14 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
- Replies: 62
- Views: 126401
Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Is it me or is this another item to add to the list of, "Text Layers don't Expose Much Functionality to Scripting": The width and height of a text layer reported in a script (or expression, for that matter) is the same as the width and height of the comp. If anyone has any ideas as to how ...
- February 1st, 2005, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Adding meta-data to quicktime files
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28912
- January 30th, 2005, 6:27 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: best program to write scripts in?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25497
- January 28th, 2005, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: best program to write scripts in?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25497
On Windows, I use TextPad. I have been using it for years for all sorts of programming tasks, with the exception of C/C++ and C# (for which I use VS.NET).
Peter
Peter
- January 27th, 2005, 1:53 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Adding meta-data to quicktime files
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28912
- January 25th, 2005, 7:03 pm
- Forum: Script requests
- Topic: Ftp after render
- Replies: 20
- Views: 55041
Often, much of what you see when using an FTP client from the shell is generated by the client as a human-readable description of the commands it is sending to the server or friendly interpretation of the server's response. What the server is actually sending is all that AE will see when reading fro...