For some odd reasons the scripting guide for After Effects CS3 is online, available directly from Adobe's website.

http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffe ... rview.html

Awesome it works ! Thank you very much for your help

does anyone know if there is a way to go to the next line in an "edittext" box ?

the usual "\n" is simply ignored ... bug ?

thanks

The new "system.callSystem" command from AE 7.0 is a pretty exciting new feature because it allows you to run an external program without having to go thru the batch file / (undocumented) ".execute()" trick. This new feature sounds wondefull on the paper but it looks like after e...

I recommand you add a "point control" effect to your layer and read the position of each corner of your layer from there.

it is possible to write an autosave script using thw windows Task Scheduler ... i wrote one ..and it works (without interupting after, ex : RAM preview, tracking, ...) It is a little complicated to setup... but it works. Some of the issues are that after effects doesn't let you save the project &quo...

I have the same problem when asking for "app.project.file.modified" the hours, minutes,and seconds never change their always setup to 18:26:40 . (the date is up to date though) Now what ? I spent the whole day writing my script and now i'm stuck :cry: hopefully Adobe is going to fix this i...

allright .. i guess it's not possible then .... thanks anyway

Does anyone know if there is a way to add an argument when launching a program from the .execute() method ? (WITHOUT using a batch file :) i see you coming) here is what i have right now in my script : var launch_Smedge = new File(smedgeFolder + "\\SmedgeGui.exe"); launch_Smedge.execute();...

ok ... i was thinking about using my acual pallette menu to launch the script, but i just wanted to make sure that nobody would use the "File" " Open" method anymore ... that's fine i'll just do that then.

Thanks

Does anyone knows if there is a way to run a script when you're opening or closing a project (from the "File", " Open" menu) ?
This would be a really usefull possibility.

Thanks.

I am looking for the same thing. Anybody out there knows if there any way to do that ?

Does anyone know if there is a way to modify the text value from a "Basic Text" effect ?



(I know i could use a text layer but for different reasons i would prefer just changing this value if i can)

thanks !