I'm doing something similar wth JSON, and I just ended up adding my objects to the top of my JSX file with PHP....

wow. killer layout, nab. looks like a lot of fun can be had here

After playing with this for a while, I realized you need to compensate for the anchor point when scaling. Whipped this up - let me know what you guys think: function fitTextToBox(myTextLayer,boxX,boxY){ var myMask; var myVertices; var thePosition; var TextWidth; var TextHeight; var NewScale; myTextL...

this is really, REALLY, great. Thanks!

I've been having troubles with the app.executeCommand (esp in the cs3 beta) but I got around that by just leaving a mask there in the source project, and then removing it after i get the size of the text layer.

well, i solved my immediate problem with a really hacky function, but if that turns out not to work reliably, the plugin (and a real .width result) may be more helpful.

Basically, I'm just trying to make sure that text fits within a specified width, and if not, scale it down.

any chance of a mac version? or the source, so we can hack one together? This sounds super handy, and poking around in the SDK has been on my to-do list for a while.

The text layer script-ability is one of my bigger disappointments in AE scripting ...

-austin

i was writing out a .sh file, and then trying to run that file. the script would run, but nothing would happen. my guess is that the line breaks were broken, and the the comment on the first line commented out the whole script. (If i opened the file in BBEdit, changed the line breaks to Unix, and ra...

Hey everyone, I've been playing with generating shell scripts from AE (as seen in IMP's muster script http://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=103 ) but my scripts don't run... I have a feeling it has to do with mac vs unix handling of line breaks, as TextWrangler reads the generated file as Macintosh ...

To get a script to set the Starting Frame parameter of a Timecode effect that had already been applied to a layer, you'd use something like: curLayer.Effects.property("Timecode").property("Starting Frame").setValue(85); Paul T Is there an easy way to get the current timecode of ...