My client is asking for me to create a script that can execute from Photoshop without showing the AE UI at all. For those that have created headless workflows, what tips and tricks can you recommend?

I'm trying to build in some error reporting via a log file into one of my scripts. I'm catching the errors and writing them to a text file along with some periodic feedback items I've written in manually. Is there a way to sort of dump all the variables that have been defined up to the point of erro...

I can get the comp timecode but I can't seem to find an easy way to determine what the start timecode is from a given layer. Anyone know how to get that?

I don't recall there being a solution but it has been quite some time since I tried that approach. It's possible they have made some changes I'm not aware of.

I'll give the command line approach a shot. I'm trying to hand off a snippet of code to an Applescript Developer who is assisting my client with some automation. I'm handling the Ae stuff and he is doing the AS part.

Bumping this thread again. I'm trying to get Applescript to execute an external jsx script. I have tried it two ways and both seem to fail for different reasons. 1st approach fails because applescript does not like the path to the script file I'm giving it. This location should be pretty static so I...

Anyone ever messed around with hooking up applescript into AE scripts? Like, triggering scripts with droplets?

I am making a script for a client and it keeps crashing on save on their end. I've attached an error message they sent. The script saves a new copy of the project as a new name when it starts. Then after completing, it saves the project. It's crashing at the last save. I can't get it to do it on my ...

I have a palette that has a button to run a script. The location of the script is stored in the preferences. I had this working the other day, but now it's not executing the other script. Does this look correct? myWindow.myPanel.runButton.onClick = function () { alert("Running :" +ST.scrip...

I seem to have this error from time to time and it's currently haunting me. After running a script, certain tasks in AE cause it crash with that error. I believe I have my undo groups properly setup in the scripts. What else can I check to rectify this?

It's as simple as just adding the property.
All the UI stuff is documented in the Javascript Tools Guide found in the help menu of Extendscript.

Thanks, I have the reading and writing working now.

Is there a way to write an XML from an Object? I can't find a way to dynamically access all the properties of an object. It would be awesome if you could convert the tree-like structure of an object straight into a XML object.

Wow, I didn't realized it was so simple. In testing, it seems to accept some XML files and not others. Also, how would you access something like this? <languages> <version>1</version> <language>en-US</language> <language>ja-JP</language> </languages> For the "version" token I think I could...

What are you all using to get data out of a XML file? I'm thinking about switching to XML to store data in instead of CSV style text files. I was hoping there was a good method in place already that will read a file and return an object with all the nodes of the XML in it.

They added the ability to hit return on the keyboard with CS6 inside an edittext. I'm trying to add this property to my box with no success. Anyone have this working?