• Adobe After Effects

  How to use textSource.style expression with other expression

  Posted by Hadi Kot on September 18, 2020 at 2:27 pm

  Simply how i can use this 2 expression all together

  thisComp.layer(“text A”).text.sourceText.style;

  effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);

  right if i get the textSource from slider control value i can’t get the style from other layer

  so how i can do that? thanks

  

  Hadi Kot replied 5 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Hadi Kot

  September 19, 2020 at 4:28 am

  Any help?
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  Jean Baptiste

  September 19, 2020 at 10:34 am

  Hello Hadi,

  You can try to use this expression in a Text Layer “Source Text” field.

  FONT_SIZE = effect(“FONT_SIZE”)(“Slider”);
  text.sourceText.style.setFontSize(FONT_SIZE);
  

  Attention, you must : Go to File > Project Setting > Expressions, and set the Expression Engine to JavaScript. Otherwise, “text style” expressions won’t work.

  Project sample here
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qxgmmd66xtam7p/

  More information on Text Style Expressions here :
  https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/expressions-text-properties.html
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  Filip Vandueren

  September 19, 2020 at 11:08 am

  Hello Hadi,

  it’s a perhaps bit counterintuitive, but you get the style, and then you apply a setText() method to the style. You can’t take a text (which would be converted a string) and add a style to it.

  so in your case:

  s = thisComp.layer("text A").text.sourceText.style;
  s.setText( effect("Slider Control")("Slider").value );
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  Hadi Kot

  September 19, 2020 at 1:54 pm

  Perfect, that exactly what I want

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