need a simple example of a UI that controls a parameter

What type of scripts do you need?

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pseudostereo
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Hi all -

I'm brand new to scripting AE, and I'm having a difficult time getting a handle on some basic stuff. So I would be forever grateful if someone could post a (very) simple example of how one might make a dockable UI panel containing a slider that directly controls and updates some variable parameter (to an effect, or a transform parameter - or anything really) on an existing layer of an existing composition.

I know that it is easy enough to do this kind of thing using Expression Controls, but I would like to centralize certain controls for multiple compositions into a single panel, and I can't think of how else to do it - and I was unable to find any tutorials or examples that are simple enough for me to wrap my brain around.

Thanks in advance.
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ExtendScript Toolkit comes with an SDK that has many ScriptUI Examples. SnpCreateSlider.jsx shows how to create a dockable script with a slider.

-Lloyd
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