Wow! Thank you so much! You have truly clarified an issue and a mis-understanding that I have had with scripting. Expecially the idea that there is a distinction between active items and selected items. To truly grasp this, I will do my homework and seek out further explanation. Once again, thank yo...

I have been banging my head against this issue because half the time things seem to work, and the other half is spent testing my chair's durability against a katana sword. My understanding is that in order to 'do stuff' with an object's attribute (a JavaScript object property, as defined in Scriptin...

Jeff, Thanks for your assistance! Last night after posting, I spent another 15 minutes playing around with the path syntax when I noticed that putting double slashes in my paths, caused the openDialog() function to AT LEAST display my intended path in the 'Active Title Bar' of the window. HOWEVER, t...

Why does AE evaluate strings starting from within the declared scripts folder? In other words, when a function like app.open(file) is to open a file located in a directory other than the scripts folder, I get the following: var myFile = new File("F:\My Documents\project_AE6.aep"); if (myFi...

Thank you! I have now created a check absolute URL function from your script. I often forget to build all the little bricks I'm going to need (or could need) before attempting to construct the house. Regardless, your script - which is far cleaner and efficient, has enabled me to move forward. Thanks...

Lua wasn't as frustrating as this has been. Here is the deal - maybe someone can help... In its simplest most primitive form, the script I am working on needs to access a project file stored on a server (this project would be a 'template' project of sorts for a particular show. It would include char...