accessing marker comments with an expression

[menonerd]

hi everybody,
happy to be joining this forum...

i was wondering if there is a way to access the "comment" field of a marker with an expression. i am trying to pass this data to an empty textfield as to display the comment as an insert.
now, thanks to dan@motionscript i understand you can access marker data in terms of their timing. i also found out that marker comments can be queried scriptwise, but i havent yet figured out how to utilize AE scripting...
initially i was hoping for a simple solution in the likes of

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myTxt=thisLayer.marker(1).comment

, unfortunately this does not work...
any help or inspiration on this one would be great!

cheers, m.

[menonerd]

just a little update here, this is what michael from adobe wrote:

Yeah, finally got a chance to look at this. You guys are totally right, it is broken for expressions. It sorta worked back in 5.5, if you gave a marker a comment that was numeric, you could set rotation to something like marker.key(1).value and it would work, but 5.5 didn't have text layers. I'll fix it for this cycle if I can eke out a little time.

Thanks,
Michael

so there is hope out there