After Effects CC Script UI issues

[Alan_AEDScripts]

Hi there, some information I gleaned from discussions on the Indesign forum.

Might be good to have one thread where various issues are discussed in one place.

Keep in mind these issues being discussed over there are showing up in InDesign not After Effects.

I have not tested these, it's just stuff others are talking about - I have yet to fix my scripts for CC.

So if anybody has info... wishes to discuss....

What people are talking about:

• The stacking order on Windows has changed to be the same as the Mac's.
• Horizontal Scrollbar and Vertical missing issue
• The unenabled icon button show's as the enabled one and some combination of both of them show when unenabled

     - issues with creation properties - toggle

• Image positions jump (a pixel) sometimes on clicking a radio button and sizes of panels have shrunk
• Treeview -  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1235394?tstart=0
• - issues with foreground and background colors...
• Script UI fonts and sizes are locked.
• many events and listeners such as 'focus' or 'onDraw' not work as they did (or are simply discarded);
• the layout manager 'stack' orientation now causes weird problems;
• panels with {borderless:true} creation property are not borderless;
• other widgets don't support ScriptUIPen and ScriptUIBrush customization anymore;

[Arie Stavchansky]

In a Group {} you can use the orientation: 'stack' option to stack one control object atop another. Do a search for 'stack' in the tools guide pdf for more information.

[flashframe1]

Perfect! Thanks Arie 🙂

[ian_houser]

I've searched around but this is one of the only places that mentions After Effects ScriptUI fonts being locked. Has there been any change? I'm on (2014) and changing font size only works in ESTK, not in AE.

Am I missing something?

var terms = win.btnPanel.add("statictext", [50,100,650,680], ufd_termsText, {multiline:true});

    terms.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont ("Helvetica", "Regular", 14);

Thanks!

[Arie Stavchansky]

Yes, with CC I noticed fonts were locked.  Unfortunate, but a reality none the less.

[taravasya]

In last update of AE (2015.3) if I add FlashPlayer to my panel it crashed AE.

[FlyRey]

What is your computer configuration?

For me, on Win7 CC2015.3 "add FlashPlayer" works fine.

Try http://aescripts.com/fontlist-plus/ for test.

[taravasya]

Win10x64 CC2015.3

Here`s my script:

{
  try{
  function myUI(thisObj){
  function buildPanel(thisObj){
  var myPanel = (thisObj instanceof Panel) ? thisObj : new Window ("palette", "Script FX", undefined, {resizeable:true});
  res = "group{alignment:['fill','fill'], orientation:'column',\
  groupPreview: Group{orientation:'row', alignment:['fill','bottom'],\
  myPreview: FlashPlayer{preferredSize:[100, 100], alignment:['left','top']},\
  myDescrition: Panel{text: 'Descrition', alignment:['fill','fill']},\
  },\
  }";
  myPanel.grp = myPanel.add(res);
  myPanel.layout.layout(true);
  myPanel.layout.resize();
  myPanel.onResizing = myPanel.onResize = function(){this.layout.resize()};
  return myPanel;
  }
  var myScriptPal = buildPanel(thisObj);
  if ((myScriptPal != null) && (myScriptPal instanceof Window)){
  myScriptPal.center();
  myScriptPal.show();
  }
  }
  myUI(this);
  }catch(err){
  alert(err.line + "\n" + err.toString());
  }
}

If I load this panel from ScriptUI folder or as window from File/Scripts/Run sript file, AE goes down.

AE CS5.5 work fine with this script.

[FlyRey]

Work for me on Win7x64 AE CC2015.3

[taravasya]

Thanks! I`ll try on another system.

[taravasya]

I`m still try to found solution and have one question. Some people who forced with this bug founded, what if in system exist AE2014, when this bug dissapear. FlyRey you have both AE2014 with AE2015 in your system?

[FlyRey]

In my system exist CS4, CS6 and CC2015.3.

Try reinstall QuickTime and Flash Player.

[taravasya]

Well... I think we has some a problem in the new version AE during run scripts with added FlashPlayer under modern OS`s. When I run the script from the folder examples ESTK(its called UsingFlashPlayer.jsx), also there is crash the AE. Moreover, I found that running the script with an added FlashPlayer, running under MacOS, also generates an error (though there does not crashes AE):

And here:

https://videohive.net/comments/12593392

a few users have the same trouble....

[Alex White]

After Effects no longer supports flash player and .swf.

It has been replaced with HTML5 extensions.