How do I set text from an effect?

i swear to god, you don't need AEGP_GetNewStreamValue();

AEGP_GetNewLayerStream()  gets you the handle you need.

you declare a new AEGP_StreamValue2, fill it with content, and go directly to AEGP_SetStreamValue().

you don't dispose of the value, only of the AEGP_StreamRef.

the code should look like:

AEGP_GetEffectLayer();

AEGP_GetNewLayerStream();

//creating a new, empty valueP, and filling it with text.

something is wrong here.

GetNewStreamValue(); AEGP_SetText( ); AEGP_DisposeStreamValue( );

you should use SetStreamValue() instead of GetNewStreamValue.

you use "get" to find out what already on the layer, and "set" to replace the old content with the new.

so unless you're really trying to read the old content, you don't need GetNewStreamValue().

furthermore you should first call AEGP_SetText and only then the SetStreamValue().

to be precise:

first you create a new AEGP_StreamValue2.

then you use AEGP_SetText to put the new text into the AEGP_StreamValue2 structure.

only then you should use SetStreamValue() to put the content of the AEGP_StreamValue2 into the text layer.

if indeed you're using SetStreamValue() instead of GetNewStreamValue() then you don't need to use AEGP_DisposeStreamValue.

you only need to dispose of stream values you have read, not those you create from scratch and put into streams.

as for the values you used for the arguments, they're probably correct.

any mistake there would have launched a very loud error from AE.