hi lloy,
unfortunately i dint receive a mail after your reply.
luckily i found it yesterday.
thanks for your tips.

im still having some problems to access the selection of the dropdownlist from outside the gui function. but i will give it another try tomorrow.

thanks again,
payton

hi, im working on a script where the artist should choose an animation preset first, that gets applied to some layers later in the script. it would be perfect to let the script read a folder content. f.e.: \\networkshare\example preset1.ffx preset2.ffx preset3.ffx everytime the script runs it should...

hi dan,
that works!
thanks for this.

i found another solution that works, but dont know why:
why this wasn't a string before, and what is the difference between the path and file (except the filename)?

anyway, it works!

cheers,
payton

hi folks, im trying to split a footage path into an array on windows. but with no luck: var selItems = app.project.selection; if (selItems.length > 0){ for (i=0; i < selItems.length; i++){ var footagePath=selItems[i].file; alert (footagePath); var splitFootagePath = footagePath.split("/");...

hi paul,
thank you so much for your reply.
unfortunately i did not get an email because of your reply and used a workaround by applying an animation preset.

but your solution is much more...hmmm...better

thanks!

payton

wooooha! great.

maybe you can give me the last advice here :

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1266

thanks!
payton

hi again, here's my last problem to solve. i need to add an expression to the property "source text" of a text layer. i cant find something related to this in the after effects scripting guide. does it mean it is impossible? that is what i have so far: myCounterLayer.property("source ...

hi everyone, my slate creator is close to finish. i will post it here if anyone is interested in it. but a few features are still missing. my problem: //Field for Framestart -- then assigns variable my_dialog.add("statictext", [10, 210, 240, 230], "Framecounter start at: "); var ...

you made my day!
thanks for the help.

payton

hi guys, im trying hard doing some needfull stuff in the new company that im working for. all i did right now was some flash actionscript 1.0. aescripts are not really intuitive for me at this time. i want to force the user to fill in some forms and then generate text layers with this information ap...