• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  AE2020 – Change font if text includes :

  Posted by Mathias Kalhauge on November 13, 2020 at 11:14 am

  I have a text layer that I want to change font, if a certain requirement is met.

  I currently have this expression, which changes the font of the Source text, by setting the ‘selection’ to one of two values (0 or 1):

  selection = [‘Regular’, ‘Bold’];

  fontFam = thisProperty.style.font.split(‘-‘);

  createStyle().setFont(fontFam[0] + ‘-‘ + selection[0]);

  
  

  I’m looking for an “if else” statement (or something similar) where if the Source text includes ‘:’ then ‘selection’ turns to 1 instead of 0

  
  

  Can one of the expression wizards in here see a solution to this?

  Mathias Kalhauge replied 5 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Trent Armstrong

  November 13, 2020 at 2:54 pm

  I left some spots where you can put your code. Just get rid of the “//” and all the code thereafter for those lines. Also, go check out https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp where you can find a lot of wonderful ways to use Javascript for Expressions magic.

  txt = text.sourceText;

  temp = txt.search(“:”);

  if (temp > 0) {

  //[code for : exists]

  } else {

  //[code for : doesn’t exist]

  }
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  Mathias Kalhauge

  November 19, 2020 at 1:20 pm

  You sir are a saint!

  And I much appreciate the link. Great stuff!

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