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Adirai Maji
Adirai Maji
Inspiring
December 31, 2019
Question

Can anybody verify if it's an issue only for me or it's a bug with Dropdown Menu Control?

  • December 31, 2019
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I cannot able to add items to the Dropdown menu morethan 1168. If I add 1169th item After Effects shows error which I can't close. I had to force close the after effects or rapidly delete the layer or Dropdown effect that I added such number of items. Anyone verify it?

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Kyle Hamrick
Community Expert
Kyle HamrickCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 1, 2020

I admittedly don't have a solution for you (though will pass this along to the AE team), but ... out of sheer morbid curiosity, I must know what workflow required adding 1169 (or more) options to a dropdown menu. (?!) 

    Adirai Maji
    Adirai MajiAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 1, 2020

    I'm a new script writer. So I wrote a script for keyframing all of user instlled fonts in after effects using dropdown menu. But when user have morehthan 1168 font's AE start to meshup the workflow by looping warning.

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    January 1, 2020

    Well, honestly, if you have more than 300 fonts, then you have problems other than your script not fetching their names. That's just ridiculous. That aside you are probably hitting some internal 16 bit limit, either the enumeration of the lists themselves, the length of the strings or even the memory allocation directly. At any rate, by no stretch of the imagination a realworld problem. nobody would use such a list and it would be useless even if it worked due to the time-wasting scrolling required.

     

    Mylenium

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