Customize json file controlled text via drop-down menu
Hello everyone and thank you so much for taking the time 🙂
I would like to use a drop-down menu to select the language in a json file (background: I have 12 videos with 15 different languages and I would like to save time and avoid errors).
Here is my exemplary json file (example.json):
{
"text1" : {
"english" : "I love my job",
"deutsch" : "Ich liebe meinen job",
"nederlands" : "Ik hou van mijn werk",
"frans" : "J'aime mon travail"
},
"text2" : {
"english" : "Why the hell can't that work?",
"deutsch" : "Warum zur Hölle geht das nicht???",
"nederlands" : "Waarom kun je dat verdomme niet doen?",
"frans" : "Pourquoi ça ne marche pas ?"
}
}
With these lines I access the json file as usual and get the text “I love my job”
myData = footage("example.json").sourceData;
myData.text1.english
In my idea I have to make the “english” somehow accessible in the expression.
myData.text1.some-magic-linked-to-drop-down
I normally control drop-down menus using this expression here:
dropMenu = thisComp.layer("language").effect("dropdown")("menu").value;
language = ["english", "deutsch", "nederlands", "frans"];
language [dropMenu - 1]
Sometimes I get this somehow by myself (I can't program, but I'm good at googling ^^).
But in this case I can't get the two expressions linked so that I can access the json file with the drop-down menu.
Here is one of my miserable attempt:
dropMenu = thisComp.layer("language").effect("dropdown")("menu").value;
language = ["english", "deutsch", "nederlands", "frans"];
myData = footage("example.json").sourceData;
select = language [dropMenu - 1]
myData.text1.select
Which doesn't work at all...
In this sense: HELP
And thank you so much!!!
🙂
