Hi All, It's been a while since I've touched AE scripting, and I've (probably) forgotten the answer to this one. Is there any way to set a default or working directory - other than the AE Script directory? I want to set it so a user can run scripts from an external application, and have AE operate o...

You could duplicate the layer, then ALT+drag a new project item onto it to replace the source. Is that what you mean?

Wow... like the development team really listened to us

Crikey, that must have been SOOO annoying. Hooray for the fix!

Hilarious! Thanks ...

This works for me: // functions function getDebuggerState(){ return Boolean(app.preferences.getPrefAsLong("Main Pref Section", "Pref_JAVASCRIPT_DEBUGGER")) } function setDebuggerState(state){ app.preferences.savePrefAsLong("Main Pref Section", "Pref_JAVASCRIPT_DEBU...

Also, you could create a generic Object object, and assign variables (properties) to that if you want limit the scope.

vars=new Object()

vars.foo=10
vars.bar="Hello"

But creating functions is really the best way to do things, as variables live and die with the function call.

Did you check that the starttime of your footage layer was 0 and not 1 or -1?

And I googled "Adobe Script Toolkit" to find this about PS CS2 scripting. I guess they're pretty much the same thing (no sense re-inventing the wheel, right?)

http://photoshopnews.com/2005/04/20/wha ... scripting/

And I googled "Adobe Script Toolkit" to find this about PS CS2 scripting. I guess they're pretty much the same thing (no sense re-inventing the wheel, right?)

http://photoshopnews.com/2005/04/20/wha ... scripting/

I just found this in the "What's New" document as well:

http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffe ... ts_new.pdf

Page 7...

I just found this in the "What's New" document as well:

http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffe ... ts_new.pdf

Page 7...

Damn... its like being 5 again and waiting for Christmas morning!

Hey Vidpat,

I've scoured the AE7 pages on Adobe.com but can't find any mention of AE7's JavaScript capabilities.

Where did you hear about this?

Crimson Editor currently does it for me...