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  Problem with comments on expressions

  Posted by Matthieu Foulet on May 19, 2010 at 9:32 am

  Hi everyone,

  I am experiencing a little but quite annoying problem when adding comments on an expression in CS4.

  Whatever the type of comments I use (either // … or /* … */), AE disables my expression, returning the following error:

  

  Even with a simple line of text like:
  //Test

  Has anyone ever had the same issue ?
  Am I missing something ?

  (AE is up-to-date)

  Thanks,
  m

  MacPro 8Core 2.8Ghz (january2008) //
  16GB OWC RAM //
  NVIDIA 8800GT 512Mb //
  OS X.5.8

  Todd Kopriva replied 15 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Matthieu Foulet

  May 19, 2010 at 9:57 am

  Ok I dealed with two different syntax problems.

  first, if I just tested the comments with a simple line like
  //test
  I was having an error until I just wrote any expression into the parameter.

  What brought me to test it, was another expression for which I had the same problem.
  This one was long and I couldn’t find where my error was.

  Actually, I was commenting it like I am used to in javascript.

  I had comments at the end of some lines, which AE obviously doesn’t understand
  posX=transform.position[0]-sX*width/2; //arete de gauche
posX1=transform.position[0]+sX*width/2; //arete de droite
posY=transform.position[1]-sY*height/2; //arete du haut
posY1=transform.position[1]+sY*height/2; //arete du bas

  However, th expression worked fine in CS3, even with the comments at the end of the lines.

  MacPro 8Core 2.8Ghz (january2008) //
  16GB OWC RAM //
  NVIDIA 8800GT 512Mb //
  OS X.5.8
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  Todd Kopriva

  May 22, 2010 at 10:32 pm

  I just tested some comments of the format that you’re talking about, and they work fine for me.

  If you continue to see a problem, please file a bug.

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