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  Plugins with floating licenses disables calling functions in nested scripts?

  Posted by Martin Bollerup on December 11, 2012 at 1:11 pm

  Hello

  This morning I got the Sapphire plugin installed and suddenly all my functions in my nested scripts were undefined. When copied to the main script everything worked fine…

  My question is:
  Is there a way around this or is it some kind of “firewall” build into After Effects? It happens on ALL projects – even though I’m not using the Sapphire plugin.

  I haven’t got the chance to test if the nested scripts works with a valid license because we haven’t got enough for all designers and developers. And this is the way things work around here so a workaround would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Martin

  /* nestedScript.jsx */

  {
  function testNestedFunction(str)
  {
  alert("This is a nested function saying: " + str);
  }
  }

  /* mainScript.jsx */
  {
  function loadExternalScript(path)
  {
  // [1] Create file object for the file you want to run.
  var nested_file = new File(path);

  // [2] Open the file for reading.
  nested_file.open("r");

  // [3] Read the file and evaluate the results.
  eval(nested_file.read());

  // [4] Close the file. That's it!
  nested_file.close();
  }

  loadExternalScript("some/path/to/nestedScript.jsx");
testNestedFunction("I'm your function!");
}

  Martin Bollerup replied 13 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  December 11, 2012 at 4:17 pm

  I don’t have any way to test it (I don’t have Sapphire), but it sounds like a possible path or permissions issue. Did anything else change?

  Dan
• 

  Martin Bollerup

  December 11, 2012 at 4:31 pm

  No nothing else changed… But it seems like calling external functions is completely cut off.

  I’ll get back to you if I find a workaround or an explanation.

  Martin
• 

  Gary Oberbrunner

  December 12, 2012 at 1:16 pm

  Hi Martin; I haven’t heard of this problem before. Please contact support@genarts.com. They should be able to help you out.

  — Gary
• 

  Martin Bollerup

  January 15, 2013 at 2:12 pm

  Okay so I found a way to make all nested scripts part of the same scope. All functions needs to be bound to the first loaded script – the main script. And the function for loading nested scripts should be placed in main.jsx and this function should always be used for loading scripts – if you want it to be part of the same scope.

  I haven’t compiled and testet the code here but it should work.

  cheers,
  Martin

  //
//main.jsx
//

  this.loadExternalScript = function(path) {
  // [1] Create file object for the file you want to run.
  var nested_file = new File(path);

  // [2] Open the file for reading.
  nested_file.open("r");

  // [3] Read the file and evaluate the results.
  eval(nested_file.read());

  // [4] Close the file. That's it!
  nested_file.close();
  }

  loadExternalScript("nestedScript1.jsx");

  testAlert_1("called fom main.jsx")

  //
  //nestedScript1.jsx
  //

  loadExternalScript("nestedScript2.jsx");
  this.testAlert_1(str) = function(str) {
  alert("nested 1: " + str);
  }

  testAlert_2("called from nested 1");

  //
  //nestedScript2.jsx
  //

  this.testAlert_2(str) = function(str) {
alert("nested 2: " + str);
}

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