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marcoss8332735
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June 7, 2021
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ExecuteScriptMenuItem01 - Limitation Problem!!!

  • June 7, 2021
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Hi, 

I'm running into some issues where I can't add anymore shortcut to my After Effects Scripts - ExecuteScriptMenuItem01 stops at 20! Which poses a huge problem.  I tried nesting a couple of scripts together 

 

if (keyboardState.metaKey && keyboardState.keyName == "F4") {   
var nested_file = new File("2006_light table on.jsx");
nested_file.open("r");
eval(nested_file.read());
nested_file.close();
}
 
But It's just not fast enough to activate while working! I work in multiple machines across different sites and need a handful of scripts! Most of the time I don't have acess to the root -  Application/Scripts due IT limitations. After effects comes with a lot of scripts pre-installed so it leaves about 5-6 scripts slots to be assigned on you local preferences folder. I'm afraid that's definitely limiting for powerusers!  
 
How Can i bypass the limitation while editing the aeks files. I noticed on AE21 there's a new line and it goes up to 21 scripts now 
"_reserved_more_scripting_begin" = "(4)"
 
How Can I make use of this? What would be the next lines that would give me acess to more slots? Help will be much appreciated. 
This limitation makes it extremely challenging to work across sites!After Bread and Butter is just not enough after 10-15 years.
 
Thanks
M
 
 
 
 
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Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew
Community Expert
Justin Taylor-Hyper BrewCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2021

Are you talking about the File > Script menu? This is pretty limited, if you're trying to access and run lots of scripts I'd recommend looking onto a third party tool like Kbar: https://aescripts.com/kbar/

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    marcoss8332735Author
    Participant
    June 8, 2021

    Hi Justin, 

     

    Thanks for for getting back to me! Yes, that's where you can find the scripts! And the scripts run from there just fine no issues with it! The issue is the shortcuts just been assigned for half of it!  I'm not sure what you mean by limited, it does what supposed to do which is just run the scripts! This seems more like a bug or something unadressed because I still can use the function just not fully as you can see on the screenshot. It's a basic function like you can see on the maya (screenshot attached). The issue is on adobe after effects it stop working halfway through the list. It would be really nice to have this adressed as an issue and hopefully fixed.  Also a bit odd the feature on your software works just fine seems to be neglected or have a small bug, so unsure where a costly 3rd party plugin has to do with the issue. I do have Kbar to run longer scripts or functions that can't take longer but this is to accomodate custom animation worfklows like toggles, reference switches, etc things I and others on the studio activaly need to enable and disable on scenes! Kbar is very nice but it doesnt fit this purpose.  The feature is there if you can let me know the best way of reporting this or getting some help to fix it will be much appreciated btw if this is the wrong place for this also just let me know. Atm it feels like a bit of a joke – here's a cake but you can only eat half of it and by the way, 1 quarter is reserved !? 

     

    BR,

    Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew
    Community Expert
    Justin Taylor-Hyper BrewCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 8, 2021

    Thanks for clarifying the issue. I just tested and all the shortcuts work on my machine, I am on PC.

     

    My guess would be that another application is taking those shortcuts so they're not reaching AE. Have you tried chaning the shortcuts of the items in question to see if that fixes it? Also, are you on the latest AE release?

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