Shiiiiiiiit. I need to do some file date comparisons for a different reason, and I'm having exactly the same issues!

This is an AE Scripting bug I presume. I can't see a way round it either. Argh!

Sweet idea! Can't do the plane ticket though... saving my cash for Ibiza

I'm not in front of AE right now, but you could try selecting the property in the AE timeline, then running something like the following (you might have to check my syntax, as this is from memory) to check the name exactly: alert(app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0].selectedProperties[1].name) T...

Off topic, but I've just added a right-click command in Windows Explorer to run a jsx directly. (I usually run scripts from Crimson Editor, as I'm constantly in development) 1. Open Windows Explorer 2. Tools > Folder Options 3. File Types > JSX > Advanced > New... 4. Action: &Run (the & sign...

I work a lot with 3dsmax, and we've been used to customising the interface for years now. We can add menu commands, toolbar buttons, scripted utilities, right-click menus, quad-menus, pop-ups, activeX controls (tree views, lists, etc) - essentially ANYTHING in the interface. It's very, very useful.....

Abso-lutely!

At the moment, you're trying to get the length property of the actual folder object (it doesn't have a "length" property); what you really want is to get the length property of the name, path, or absoluteURI of the folder object. alert(folders[0].absoluteURI.length) And you might have miss...

Jesus! Thanks Paul, that looks remarkably thorough. Hopefully I'll just need the io bit, but I appreciate it.

Cheers!
Dave

Hi all,
I'm being stumped by the correct implimentation of importOptions.

All I'd like to do is to import a single file sequence. Can someone demonstrate the correct syntax!?

Thanks,
Dave

dude...
You'll have to be a little more descriptive with your responses! I'm a scripter - not a cryptologist!

I started thinking about it,so thought I'd do the leg work... just for fun.... function reverseMask (obj,maskIndex){ // check if(obj==undefined){ alert('Object undefined');return } if(maskIndex>obj.Masks.numProperties){ alert('Incorrect mask index specified');return } // existing mask var curMask= o...

I would probably do something like :

- create a new shape object
- loop through the verts of the original mask and assign to the shape
- loop through the in and out tangents, swap them, and add to the shape
- apply the shape

A little function could do this quite neatly I'm sure.
Do you script?

:D

Perhaps if you could be more specific....

Glad to be of help, Byron

I recently worked on some scripts for a particularly complicated production pipeline (that wouldn't change from project to project) and I used item comments and a getItemByComment function to return particular folders. It's certainly not bulletproof, but maybe you could try something similar? Cheers...