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  Repeating Text with Text Sourced from Another Layer

  Posted by Clayton Glenn on June 28, 2018 at 9:17 pm

  Apologies, I think that this is best posted here rather than the AE forum.

  Trying to get this to work, getting a text sourced from another layer to repeat a given number of times. In this case 5.

  Beginnings work
  s = “”;
  for (i= 1;i <= 5;i++) s +=”source from other layer”;
  s

  For a layer named layer name I am trying to get it to replacy the “source from other layer”;

  Using a pickwhip from the chosen layer, EXAMPLE with live type,
  thisComp.layer(“EXAMPLE”).text.sourceText

  It doesn’t seem to see it as a source and returns that it is expecting a ;

  Any ideas? Many thanks for the time.

  s = "";
for (i= 1;i <= 5;i++) s +="source from other layer";
s

  thisComp.layer("EXAMPLE").text.sourceText

  Saving the world one pixel at a time.

  Clayton Glenn replied 7 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Clayton Glenn

  June 28, 2018 at 9:38 pm

  I bugged everyone I could and found a solution. It was a simple mistake.
  In a layer with type saying “IT WORKS” is the source for the repeating text
  and it looks like this…

  I added extra spaces after the selected text to provide even spacing.

  It was a misuse of quotation marks that made the previous effort not work.

  Best wishes to all.

  s = "";
for (i= 1;i <= 10;i++) s +=thisComp.layer("IT WORKS").text.sourceText + " ";
s


  Saving the world one pixel at a time.

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