Looking for object library to reference

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Bit_Butter
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Joined: July 28th, 2010, 2:41 pm

Trying to learn expressions and I cannot seem to find a complete library of objects and their properties to reference. I have found the Adobe reference page, in their help section, but that seems to be only a partial list of objects, attributes and methods.

For example I am trying to find the different properties of text.source but I cant seem to find a list of all the attributes, methods and sub-objects belonging to a text.source object, assuming text.source can be considered an object?

I am hoping for a breakdown like JJ Gifford has here http://www.jjgifford.com/expressions/tables/index.html

Also I am looking for some book recommendations on learning expressions.

Thanks for the help.
Paul Tuersley
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I'd say the Adobe expression reference is probably complete in terms of AE specific stuff, but not the standard javascript methods.

For the Source Text property the only thing you can change with an expression is the text content, not the style. So there are no other attributes, methods and sub-objects belonging to a text.sourceText object that are accessible by expressions.

Scripts were given the ability to access more text attributes in CS4, as listed here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2008 ... ng-ch.html

And if you google "Javascript String Methods " you'll find some standard methods you can use for dealing with text strings in both scripts and expressions.
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