Thanks Paul. I worked on it some more today and moved some of the variables our of that function into global space. For some reason now, when I launch it from the Window menu it opens a panel then throws a floating window like I launched the script from the File menu. I looked at the post from the o...

I'm not sure I understand your question exactly but I will offer this. Time is expressed in seconds, not timecode. You must multiply by the frame duration of the comp to get the correct times.

You can just move it after you create it. Here's a snippet from the docs. //create a new FolderItem in project, with name “comps” var compFolder = app.project. items.addFolder(“comps”); // move all compositions into new folder by set t ing // compItem’s parentFolder to “comps” folder f...

I have written many scripts but cannot seem to overcome the obstacle of ScriptUI. My problems arise when trying to call certain functions with the buttons. Some functions seem to run and some don't. My script was working somewhat earlier today but I cannot figure out what is failing at the moment. H...

Thanks Paul, that is good to know.

OK, I found the answer. I wasn't going up high enough in the hierarchy. You can stack the parentProperty attribute.

How can I determine what layer a property is applied to? I have tried the .parentProperty attribute but I can't seem to get it to work. Anyone have any pointers on this? Thanks.

Is there a way to tell which vertex or vertices are selected via scripting?

You can't add menu items to AE, but you can change the prefs via scripting. It would be interesting to find out if changing the prefs through scripting has the same result on that problem as using the GUI.

That would be fairly custom from what it sounds like. Although, it doesn't sound overly difficult. If each of the elements are the same as far as layers and properties, it would be easy to write a script that changes all the properties. If it is a matter of different types of comps that share some c...

Lloyd pointed me to this workaround. It seems to be working my my particular script. function openCompPanel(thisComp) { // remember the original work area duration var duration = thisComp.workAreaDuration; // temporarily set the work area to 2 frames // I know, I should use the comp fps to calculate...

Bump.
Is this not possible?

Disregard, it seems to be working now. Weird.

I tried searching for these terms but it says they are too common. So I apologize if this has been discussed.

Is there a way to select or unselect a layer via scripting? I'm trying something like this and getting an error.

Does anyone have any examples of reading in a XML file and using it in a script with the Extendscript tools? I have an older script that parses the file manually but just ran across the XML section in the CS4 Javascript Tools Guide. I wonder if I could overhaul this scrip by using the built in XML t...