Hey austin, When you say your scripts aren't running, what kind of results are you getting? Can you echo something back to AE? Are you having permissions problems? Are you using AE6.5 or 7? I've had mostly good luck with AE7, and system.callSystem() as long as my permissions are set to excecutable. ...

Hi CaptM, Sounds like your getting an invalid path. There is limited path support that I'm working on in the next version of the script. I'm also adding a try/catch construct to the next version of the script. Can you tell me what happens if you replace var my_io = new ImportOptions(new File(fileSub...

hey folks, Following up with an answer to my own question. Since we can craft the GET or POST request line by line. The User-Agent is simply a line in the request, like so. webConnect.write('GET /socketDemo/sampleProject.json HTTP/1.0 \nUser-Agent: OurFantasticWebService\n\n'); Best, Dale

I've been playing with the Socket object and the User-Agent seems to be "-" which just may be my version of Apache's version of Null. Has anybody worked with changing this info to be a better citizen in web service consumption? The object doesn't seem to be open to much introspection. Best...

Thanks for the reply Jeff. I hadn't realized that 7 had introduced auto-selection of translated strings. So much to learn....

Best,

Dale

Hey folks, Are any of you guys localizing your scripts? I'm starting to work on my coding standards as I move from learning syntax et.al. to developing production scripts and I'm trying to avoid being Anglo specific. Jeff I noticed your using a localized string object, do you have somebody who helps...

Hi Lloyd, I've been using the Adobe Bridge Javascript Reference (warning PDF link) as the most completely documented UI reference. They have reference to two UI controls called Iconbutton and Image , but when I attempt to use these controls in AE7, I get a Unknown UI element type 'image' and Unknown...

... what I've done in the past is create a preset (.ffx) file for the effect

brilliant! thanks Jeff.

Hi folks, Is there anyway to supress the modal dialog that appears when applying certain effects like "Numbers" and "Basic Text"? i.e. when I do something like: var timeEffect = timeStamp("Effects").addProperty("Numbers"); I get the modal dialog to set the fon...

Hi Paul, Sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that I would send my scripting anomalies to aebugs@adobe.com rather than wonder out loud in public forums about why I wasn't getting the results I expected. At least until I'm really sure about the problems or workarounds I'm proposing. Thanks for the kind w...

Hi Paul, I've got preferences > General > Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network turned on. I've been experimenting with system.CallSystem() for a bit now, and I seem to get different results from machine to machine. I've had a problem with multi-column output on one machine that doesn't se...

Hi Paul, What a great script! I'm especially impressed with the UI, great work all the way around. I was doing a little bit of Friday afternoon playing around and wondered if you might find something like this fun to include... function roboKaraoke(){ if(system.osName == 'MacOS'){ var sayString = &q...

Hey Byron, ...Does anyone happen to know if you have to include every parameter that final cut puts in the XML? If I re-create the XML file, that's a lot of unneeded data that I would have to build into the file. In my experience, no you don't need to put all of the parameters in. There's a DTD to v...

Hey Mark... Thanks for the link to Sebsky Tools, looks like a great utility. I apologize for the misinformation. Here is what I misread. I'm enclosing a couple of screenshots... http://creative-workflow-hacks.com/images/Picture7.png and http://creative-workflow-hacks.com/images/Picture6.png Is the Q...

Hi darius, some useful javascript Object functions for what your trying to do: from the Math object Math.round(x)//returns rounded integer Math.round(25.9) //returns 26 Math.round(25.2) //returns 25 Math.floor(a) // integer closest to and not greater than a Math.floor(7/2) //returns 3 Math.ceil(a) /...