Trouble With Auto-Sizing Text Box

[Noah5CDE]

I've used these expressions before with no trouble but clearly something is different this time. I've tried adding it to all the different Scale and Size properties within the Box layer but they all either extend left to right forever or they scale wrong. Either it's growing too fast, or it shrinks as I type. Can anyone spot what is causing this?

  

[Noah5CDE]

Also, should have maybe added the expressions I used-

s=thisComp.layer("Your Text Title Name Here");

w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;

h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;

[w,h]

Also tried -

dname=thisComp.layer("name").sourceRectAtTime(time).width;

Value+[dname,0]

[Dan Ebberts]

Have you tried applying the expression to rectangle path's Size property?

[Noah5CDE]

Yes. Something is throwing it off. I'm wondering if it has to do with the animation I added.

[Noah5CDE]

This is another attempt, this should be the size of my text but this is what I get.

[Noah5CDE]

A slightly different expression creates an infinite width

[Dan Ebberts]

In your other posts, it looks like you have adjusted the scale values of both the box's group and layer transforms. Is that still the case?

[Noah5CDE]

Here are the current values

[Dan Ebberts · Accepted solution]

It looks like your x scale for the layer is set to -4674.3. Maybe that's the issue?

[Noah5CDE · Accepted solution]

Yes I think that had something to do with it. I created a new rectangle from scratch and was able to get it to work by changing the value in parenthesis of the expression for sourceRectTime to 2 so it didn't get thrown off by the animation at the beginning. And the new text box doesn't have such an extreme x value. Initially, I tried a new approach which created groups within the layer and I think that got messed up.