I haven't been able to integrate my ExtendScript test with my other tests, but I have created separate sets of tests using Karma and Istanbul for the AngularJS unit testing, Protractor for the e2e testing, and this: GitHub - tmaslen/jasminejsx: A port of Jasmine 2.2.0 that is compatible with Adobe ExtendScript for the  Extendscript testing. Not  really an answer but maybe you can find a way to get jasminejsx to play along with your other tests. ... View more

In my function, here was how I set it up where you assume theLayer is an instanceof TextLayer: if(theLayer.property("Source Text").value.pointText){      //do calculations using sourceRectAtTime } else {      //do calculations using boxTextSize } ... View more

Looks good. I am partial to putting it in a switch or if ... else statement but above should work just as well ... View more

I just brought it up because this same issue vexed me for months when I was new to ExtendScript. Drilling down to the boxTextSize property can be a headache, but this thread proved invaluable for me as a reference when setting up my function. ADBE Text Document boxTextSize attribute ... View more

Right, I was just pointing out that point text (if you click the text icon and start typing) uses sourceRectAtTime, while boxed text (if you click the text icon and then draw a text box before typing) uses boxTestSize ... View more

In case you need to use it with box text, you will need to substitute boxTextSize for sourceRectAtTime ... View more

Now, if only LAYERS had IDs (sigh) ... View more

very helpful. thanks! ... View more

thanks. I ended up passing sourceText.value.boxTextPos but I need to handle keyframe values, so it looks like sourceRectAtTime() will be the  way to go ... View more

oh, never mind. I see that you should pass boxTextPos ... View more

Thanks. Ugh. This is what I was afraid of. I have been trying sourcePointToComp() but I can find no documentation anywhere as to what parameters this method should take. comp.layer(1).sourcePointToComp() certainly doesn't work. ... View more

bueller? ... View more

have you considered using a shell script in terminal? e.g. osascript -e 'tell application "Adobe After Effects CC 2017" to activate' -e 'tell application "Adobe After Effects CC 2017" to DoScriptFile "yourscript.jsx"' -e 'tell application "Adobe After Effects CC 2017" to quit' -e 'tell application "Adobe After Effects CC 2017" to activate' and so on? you could actually include app.quit() in whatever script file you do, and then put something like above in a loop based on how many items you are rendering... ... View more

ES = ExtendScript. app.project.save(new File(outputFileNameInMediaEncoderWatchFolder)); ... View more

we use ES to save our AEP file to a Media Encoder watch folder, which automatically kicks off the render. ... View more

These are great helps. Thanks ... View more

I don't know, but it's probably also worth posting this in the general AE forum: After Effects ... View more

var logger = selLayers[0].property("ADBE Transform Group").property("ADBE Position").value doesn't work? (or 'keyValue' or 'valueAtTime' or 'valueAtKey' depending on context?) ... View more

If you really need ExtendScript Toolkit, I don't understand why you wouldn't download it from the Creative Cloud interface. ... View more

I wasn't aware that render() wasn't working correctly in CC15. I just wrote a script that uses it (so far) without problems. What problems have people been encountering? ... View more

I know I'm kind of an echo chamber in here but I'm just trying to find a solution however I can. So, has anyone used initKeyboardEvent in ExtendScript, or is there a way to create an eventListener to detect an error window opening? ... View more

Well, scratch that, the PNGIO error still happens, but less frequently. Does anyone know of a way to suppress error messages, or a scriptable way to simulate an "enter" keypress? beginSuppressDialog() doesn't work for this kind of modal, and the traditional JS method of document.createEvent("KeyboardEvent"); doesn't work in extendScript ... View more

For what it's worth/in case anyone else runs into this issue, it turned out to be an "async" issue; I solved it by splitting the importing of the image and the adding of the image as a layer into separate functions, and on the js side via CSInterface, made the add image function a callback of the import image. ... View more

yes, I am, but whenever I use anything other than a .png, I get the following error: AEGP Plugin PNGIO Support: PNGIO library error: Input file doesn't seem to be a PNG file. (5027 :: 12) Here is the code: var importOpts = new ImportOptions(new File(mapLayer)); var importImg = app.project.importFile(importOpts) app.project.item(1).layers.add(importImg); ... View more

to add to this question, when I try to import a .jpeg or .gif format, why does Importfile always expect a png? ... View more

we ended up doing something similar to what Dan suggested and the generateRandomNumber function (and I can confirm that these values persist from session to session): function createItemID(aeItem, dataModelItem){     var wasLocked = false;     if (aeItem.locked == true){         wasLocked = true;         aeItem.locked = false;     }     if (aeItem.comment == "" || aeItem.comment == "0"){         aeItem.comment = generateRandomNumber();     }     if (wasLocked == true){         aeItem.locked = true;     }     dataModelItem.id = aeItem.comment; } ... View more

for what it's worth, this is my current, hacky workaround: var data = {   number: 12345 } num = data.number.toString(); if (num.length > 3){   data.number = num.substring(0, num.length-3) + "," + num.substring(num.length-3); } ... View more

To add to the above point about using curl, I just ended up having to do this in a project, and after struggling with the ExtendScript socket logic (it may have had to do with the server I was trying to pull images from, or simply my own incompetence), I ended up following the solution, courtesy of FabianTheBlind, who I believe posts on this forum. Note that you have to change your General Preferences to allow scripts to write files across networks. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26285164/get-read-text-file-from-url-javascript-for-after-effects var curlcmd = "curl feeds.nfl.com/feeds-rs/schedules.json > ~/Desktop/test/schedules.json"; var stdout = system.callSystem(curlcmd); $.writeln(stdout); var file = File("~/Desktop/test/schedules.json"); file.open(); var content = file.read(); file.close(); $.writeln(content); ... View more