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- November 23rd, 2020, 12:30 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Copy to Clipboard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7274
- October 29th, 2020, 2:33 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: How to link text properties between different text layers?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1101
Re: How to link text properties between different text layers?
Using the new expression engine & a recent version of AE (that supports text styling), this will clone the text content and the text layer style from one text layer to another. Apply to the destination's Source Text field: const ref = thisComp.layer("Driver Text Layer").text.sourceText; // Copy the ...
- October 5th, 2020, 10:55 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Change Font and Font Style by script
- Replies: 4
- Views: 23186
Re: Change Font and Font Style by script
dave modis wrote: ↑September 29th, 2020, 11:02 amThere is an existing script for Changing the fonts in a project.
It does that and a lot more
FontMate:
https://www.vdodna.com/products/fontmate/
Speaking of existing scripts, pt_textedit has been doing this since 2010
- August 10th, 2020, 10:20 am
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: Is there an idiots guide to thinking like a coder?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1673
Re: Is there an idiots guide to thinking like a coder?
The Expression Session course on School of Motion is made to walk you through how to think like a coder & get started writing AE expressions, from the point of view of a designer / animator! Literally who it's targeted for
Full disclosure, I'm one of the instructors / creators of it.
- July 13th, 2019, 10:16 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Any tool that can replace Data Browser in the ExtendScript Toolkit?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6922
Re: Any tool that can replace Data Browser in the ExtendScript Toolkit?
ESTK was replaced with a plugin for Visual Studio Code: https://medium.com/adobetech/extendscri ... 2e1a068e89
- July 13th, 2019, 10:13 pm
- Forum: Script Tutorials
- Topic: Atom text editor for after effects scripting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 33668
Re: Atom text editor for after effects scripting
I use Visual Studio Code, and have a writeup here: http://zacklovatt.com/visual-studio-code-stuff/ Also, Extendscript Toolkit is being EOL'd in favour of a VS Code plugin: https://medium.com/adobetech/extendscript-debugger-1-1-0-released-5f2e1a068e89 -- this will be the only officially supported way...
- May 7th, 2019, 4:51 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: exposing obscure / hidden AE commands to scripting?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8002
- May 7th, 2019, 4:50 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Simple question: how to embed images into jsx files?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7462
Re: Simple question: how to embed images into jsx files?
Take a look at "Displaying Images" in the Javascript Tools Guide: http://estk.aenhancers.com/4%20-%20User ... ing-images
- May 7th, 2019, 4:50 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: A script with a viewer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8066
Re: A script with a viewer
This is an avenue you can explore, though doing this within a scriptUI panel may prove difficult; it may be worth exploring an Extension, as they come with an HTML5 frontend that could draw the rendered animation simpler than in extendscript.
- May 7th, 2019, 4:49 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: How to fix an uncaught javascript exception error generated in the internal extendscript code
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6657
Re: How to fix an uncaught javascript exception error generated in the internal extendscript code
Yeaa this is an annoying bug of ESTK. Occasionally errors that shouldn't be caught just... are. In my experience they usually only catch the first time, and after that it's fine and works as expected.
- May 7th, 2019, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Copy() function doesn't work with big files
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6980
Re: Copy() function doesn't work with big files
A better approach may be to use instead, and write OS-level commands to copy the file. This way is more robust and much more flexible.
Code: Select all
system.callSystem()
- May 7th, 2019, 4:44 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: Has anyone found a practical use for the $.global object?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9060
Re: Has anyone found a practical use for the $.global object?
Any sort of shared space is incidental, buggy, and shouldn't be relied upon. Don't do this.
- May 7th, 2019, 4:42 pm
- Forum: Expressions Library
- Topic: Create a timecode with expressions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 75066
Re: Create a timecode with expressions
Hey! What you can do: Create a slider on your layer Animate it from 1 -> higher Replace your expression with this one (below) Where I wrote {pickwhip slider here}, delete that and pickwhip the slider. function pad(str, max) { str = str.toString(); return str.length < max ? pad("0" + str, max) : str;...
- January 28th, 2019, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Zoom timeline
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7435
Re: Zoom timeline
The majority of "UI control" type things aren't exposed to the scripting API, giving us no way to play with things like that 

- January 9th, 2019, 11:55 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Integrate a color picker in UI Panel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15578
Re: Integrate a color picker in UI Panel
While the system colour picker is fine, here's a scriptui-native solution that offers quite a bit more functionality (and platform agnosticism): https://github.com/smallpath/adobe-color-picker