copy script source?

[daniel]

Hi,

is there a way to make a "live copy" of an expression? I wanna like to do somthing like

on Layer 1 (scale):
mul(scale,2);

and on Layer 2 (scale)
"copy script from layer 1"

this means, i don't wanna have the result of expression 1 i only want the script. This would simplify the development on redundant scripts because now only one script has to be edit. Any ideas?

thanks for your time
daniel

[Dan Ebberts]

The only way I can think of to do it would be to put the expression in a text layer and then link your slave expressions to it with an expression like this:

eval("s = " +thisComp.layer("text expr").text.sourceText)



Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Not sure what I was thinking - this should work better:

eval(thisComp.layer("text expr").text.sourceText.toString())


Dan

[daniel]

Hi Dan,

thanks for your answer! Really good. I made the expression on "Source" and put the code between quotes.

thanks again
daniel