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tardigrade01
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‎Aug 03, 2016
09:43 AM
maybe this thread will help: Replace rectangle with an image.
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‎Jul 14, 2016
07:29 AM
That worked flawlessly. Thanks so much!
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‎Jul 12, 2016
11:14 AM
It looks as though I were missing "#target aftereffects", which now executes the script (not without clunkily giving me a warning prompt about executing scripts from outside AE). If anyone has experience with/suggestions for executing an extendscript file without having to launch ESTK every time, I would appreciate it. We are able to do this in another extension we wrote, but for some reason it isn't working here.
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‎Jul 12, 2016
09:51 AM
1 Upvote
There are a lot of flavors of answer to this out there, none of which seem to work for me. Let me say right off the bat that my terminal (I'm running Yosemite) recognizes neither '-cmd' nor '-run' nor '-r'. So, here is the breakdown: 1. I am able to launch AE from the terminal. 2. I am able to open an AE file from the terminal. ~Here is where it gets tricky~ 3. I am able to open ExtendScript Toolkit from the terminal, although I would rather not have to involve this app at all, and just automatically run the script. 4. I am able to open my .jsx file in ExtendScript Toolkit from the terminal, although, again, I would rather not have to open ExtendScript Toolkit at all. 5. I am not able to run the .jsx file from the terminal. How do I do this? Thanks!
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‎Jul 06, 2016
07:29 AM
try this (where comp.layer(1) is a solid with properties, keyframed or not, that you want to apply to the image -- I didn't test this with a shape layer): var proj = app.project; var comp; for (var i = 1; i <= proj.numItems; i++){ if (proj.item(i) instanceof CompItem){ comp = proj.item(i); } } var shape1 = comp.layer(1); var importOpts = new ImportOptions(new File("/yourDirectory/yourImage.png")); var importImg = proj.importFile(importOpts); shape1.replaceSource(importImg,false);
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‎Jul 05, 2016
08:44 AM
This example works for a local file and gives you the idea of how to duplicate properties and then remove the "replaced" layer. var proj = app.project; var comp = proj.item(1); var shape1 = comp.layer(1); var importOpts = new ImportOptions(new File("/yourDirectoryName/yourImageFile.png")); var importImg = app.project.importFile(importOpts); var myImg = comp.layers.add(importImg); myImg.inPoint = shape1.inPoint; myImg.outPoint = shape1.outPoint; myImg.property("Position").setValue(shape1.property("Position").value); myImg.property("Scale").setValue(shape1.property("Scale").value); shape1.remove();
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‎Jun 30, 2016
07:19 AM
Thank you for this heads up. I was just about to create a version checker and would have gotten stuck given AE's pitiful documentation.
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‎Jun 24, 2016
06:58 AM
as far as I know, you always have to convert your hex values to rgb for extendScript. where layer(1) is your solid and [1,1,1] is any RGB value (0-1 range) you want -- app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property('Contents').property(3).property('Color').setValue([1,1,1]);
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‎May 10, 2016
06:42 AM
I haven't worked with trim paths, but if it's any help, I can share how I targeted the Fill property and its sub-properties of a shape layer... this is within an if statement checking if the layer is "instanceOf ShapeLayer" and where tintColor and tintOpacity are previously declared vars... var shapeColor = comp.layer(i).property('Contents').property(1); if (shapeColor.property('Contents').property(3)) { shapeColor.property('Contents').property(3).property('Color').setValue(tintColor); if (tintOpacity > 0) { comp.layer(i).property('Opacity').setValue(tintOpacity); } }
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‎May 09, 2016
02:48 PM
shouldn't your trim check code be-- if (shapeLayerContents == shapeLayerContents.property("ADBE Vector Filter - Trim")) ?
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‎Apr 27, 2016
05:38 AM
So since the width and height of a point text layer is --always the size of the composition --calculateTransformFromPoints can only set and not read a set of values -- a point text layer's sourceRectatTime top and left values (as well as baselineLoc values) are relative, as far as I can tell, to its... anchor point? And -- I can't rely on its anchor point since a) end users move the anchor point and b) we have other functions that periodically center the anchor point of every layer, I was wondering if there were some other way to calculate the top and left values of a point text layer relative to the composition? Do I have to draw a mask that is the full size of the layer and then derive the values from its vertices?
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‎Apr 21, 2016
01:12 PM
We are writing unit tests with mocha, karma, chai, sinon, and bamboo for our angular that we use in our Adobe extension, but the main material that we need to be tests all lives in our Extend Script files. Has anyone had experience using any testing libraries with Extend Script?
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‎Apr 20, 2016
10:04 AM
2 Upvotes
I don't think you need the "(pass != 'hola')" after the "else" on 33. Not only is that incorrect JavaScript syntax, but your "if" condition already accounts for this. If you really want to keep it, I would write line 33 as "else if (pass != 'hola')"
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‎Apr 19, 2016
09:31 AM
Hello, Our extension is html/angular in an extension window with no ScriptUI functionality included. When some of our panels get "deep", the material gets cut off without any option for a scrollbar. In order to see it, you have to resize the window vertically. I have tried everything I can think of to target the extension window itself even if just to add an overflow-y: scroll value to it, but nothing has worked so far. Has anyone had any experience with this?
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‎Apr 07, 2016
02:36 PM
I strongly second Vlad's praise. A year ago, knowing nothing about Extend Script, I dove into your series and now we're about to release version 1.0 of an Extend Script product. Can't thank you enough, David! Your generosity is rare.
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‎Apr 06, 2016
06:23 AM
gotcha. good luck
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‎Apr 06, 2016
06:15 AM
Right. I was suggesting that you recalculate half the boxTextSize after resizing. I am surprised that sourceRectAtTime is accurate for your boxed text, because it never has for me. If it's working, though, great.
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‎Apr 06, 2016
05:59 AM
I wasn't aware you could use sourceRectAtTime for boxText, but only for point text. To get a box text's center, you could use the boxTextSize value (an array), so the horizontal center would be boxTextSize[0]/2 and the vertical center would be boxTextSize[1]/2. from page 184 of the AE CS6 Scripting Guide: TextDocument boxText attribute textDocument.boxText Description True if a text layer is a layer of paragraph (bounded) text; otherwise false. Type Boolean; read-only. TextDocument boxTextSize attribute textDocument.boxTextSize Description The size of a paragraph (box) text layer as a [width, height] array of pixel dimensions. Type Array of two integers (minimum value of 1); read/write. Also, c/o David Torno, UgQ, AgileUI, et al: ADBE Text Document boxTextSize attribute
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‎Apr 06, 2016
05:51 AM
Thanks. I will give it a shot
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‎Apr 05, 2016
06:54 AM
Thanks. Do you know if there is a script method for capturing an error at this level so that I can, for example, to try the request again?
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‎Mar 30, 2016
08:14 AM
Has anyone encountered this error when importing pngs? I am aware that it can happen when a png file is corrupt, but what I am interested in doing is capturing the error if it occurs to prompt the user to fix and re-import the problem file.
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‎Mar 23, 2016
12:25 PM
for what it's worth, I ended up using a separate angular $interval function that invokes extendscript to check whether a file name exists every second, and triggers an event if no file name is detected. So far have had no issues with modal collision or anything else
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‎Mar 23, 2016
07:19 AM
Right-- that's the rub. If I were to run it continuously, I'd have to suppress dialogs continuously.
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‎Mar 23, 2016
07:09 AM
Ah, I see; thanks. As for keeping the setTimeout running, I ran into performance issues by having a script running continuously like that, and it would also throw an error whenever an AE modal window opened.
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‎Mar 23, 2016
06:55 AM
Hi Arie, Did you ever find a way to listen for the open/close event? I have a setTimeout function that checks if a file is open every second, and then stops once it is, but am still trying to find a way to detect when a file is closed.
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‎Mar 11, 2016
11:58 AM
Hello, I am also encountering this problem with a plugin we're creating with Extend Script and Angular. It occurs when the extension is running and the user tries to create a new text layer. Can you suggest ways that we could track down what specifically might be causing the issue?
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‎Mar 10, 2016
09:20 AM
Thanks for that. I remember seeing that as a new feature when CC 2015 came out but didn't compute at the time that I could extrapolate dimensions from it. For what it's worth, what I ended up doing (for point and paragraph text) was taking the sourceRectAtTime/boxTextSize, storing the scale value of each keyframe, and (layer source width or height * keyframed scale value) / 100
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‎Mar 10, 2016
08:36 AM
This is a pretty basic question. I have 1 text layer to which I added 2 keyframes on the scale property. I need to record its width and height at each key index. It is point text (although eventually I will need to figure out how to do this with box/allocated text as well). so I have
if (layer.property("Scale").isTimeVarying){
for (var i = 1; i <= layer.property("Scale").numKeys; i++){
alert(layer.sourceRectAtTime(layer.property("Scale").keyTime(i), false).width);
}
}
unless I'm missing something, if I have transformed the layer's scale between keyframes, I should be getting different values in my alerts, but I don't. Am I misunderstanding something about how sourceRectAtTime works, or is this something unique to text layers, or...?
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‎Mar 09, 2016
12:04 PM
1 Upvote
Ha. Well, it has reared its ugly head again; I thought I had caused it by including some conditional matching loops in a custom angular filter, which could cause an infinite digest cycle, but even after changing the filter to a watch function and removing any loops, the "life advice" persists. Curiously, if I stringify a certain asset, the error goes away, and I can create new layers to my heart's content. The only other place I have seen any mention of this error is from a Creative Cow Post in 2011. The mystery continues...
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