two different text layers in one auto-scaling textbox?

[DjinWD]

Is it possible to have two different texts (Title in color  and font A and subtext in color and font B)
in one auto-scaling box?
How do I add the 't' (Main text layer) in this script?

s=thisComp.layer("Main title");
t=thisComp.layer("Main text");

w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;
h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;

[w,h]

[Martin_Ritter · Accepted solution]

Just get sourceRectAtTime() for t, and check for larger values.

The larger values are the ones, you take.

So:

s=thisComp.layer("Main title");
t=thisComp.layer("Main text");

s_w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;
s_h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;

t_w=s.sourceRectAtTime().width;
t_h=s.sourceRectAtTime().height;

w = max(s_w, t_w)

h = max(s_h, t_h)

[w,h]

*Martin

[DjinWD]

Sorry, I'm a newbie to scripts.
I assumed I could just copy yours and it would work but I get an error saying that max is not a function.
Not sure what you mean with check for larger values and where to check those.
I hope you have some patience with me 🙂

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

The correct function is Math.max(). It returns the largest possible value of both your layers, which is what you would want to encompass all text.

Mylenium

[DjinWD]

I think it should look like this then but I now get an error:

[DjinWD]

My bad...Got it. Forgot the ;

Thanks again

[Martin_Ritter]

Yeah, sorry. Math.max() it has to be - thanks Mylenium!

*Martin

[DjinWD]

Sorry...back again...
Both textbox are responding to the text being added. So that is good. However I need to the red text (main title) to be on top and the grey (main text) underneath the red. And both within the white box. I imagine I should add a margin to the height of the "Main text". How can I best accomplish this?

[jason_or_jay]

Did you ever figure this out? I'm following the expression as detailed above and still only have one box following one layer of text. I've been chasing this down for a week.

Thanks, 

Jason

[DjinWD]

I am sorry to say I have not.

[jason_or_jay · Accepted solution]

Give this a try. All credit goes to Mylenium. 

[DjinWD]

Thanks! That kinda did what I wanted 🙂

One lousy character haha

[Mathias Moehl]

The easiest and most flexible approach for this is using my extension Pins & Boxes.

Note that Pins & Boxes creates expressions. So the rigs you create with it also work inside templates and mogrts and also on machines, where Pins & Boxes is not installed.