Error: Having to focus on ourselves (76:: 59)

We are building an extension for after effect and at some point we are polling a text layer SourceText property.

If we click in the text layer while reading the SourceText property we get this error.

Is there a way of preventing this ?

Or is there a way of knowing when the focus is this layer by any events ?

Any help is welcomed

Thanks

mat

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Without any idea about your code nobody can tell you anything.

Mylenium

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if you call this in jsx scripting (we calling a jsx function every second executing this call)

let textDocument = layer.property("Source Text").value as TextDocument;

while the type tool is selected and you click in the text layer tou will get the popup.

If we remove this call then the error goes away

Hope this help.

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Im not sure if i follow you but we need the TextDocument for further operation

isPointText = !!textDocument && !textDocument.boxText;

whats wrong with this

Same exact issue here.

Would be good if AE scripting would let us know when text-editing is taking place, so that we will pause our loops...

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