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  Source Text Expressions

  Posted by Chris Taylor on October 12, 2021 at 5:09 pm

  Hi all,

  I am trying to combine several text-specific expressions, but I can only get 1 to work.

  Depending on the layout, the 2nd one will always override the first.

  I have tried the if/else expression and the substring, but none seem to work together.

  The first expression is a character limit.

  The second is a “source text style”, driven by sliders and checkboxes.

  I don’t know if I am missing something or if there is an issue with them working together.

  Any guidance on this would be very helpful.

  l = text.sourceText.length;

  if (l>25) {

  “MAX LENGTH EXCEEDED”

  } else {

  text.sourceText;

  }

  var array=[

  “Worker-ExtraBold”,

  “Worker-Regular”,

  ]

  text.sourceText.style

  .setFontSize(thisComp.layer(“CTRL”).effect(“Font Size”)(“Slider”))

  .setFont(array[thisComp.layer(“CTRL”).effect(“Font Select”)(“Slider”)])

  Chris Taylor replied 4 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  October 12, 2021 at 5:23 pm

  I haven’t tested this, but I think you just need to save your text in a variable and then use .setText() at the end of your expression, like this:

  l = text.sourceText.length;
  if (l>25) {
  txt = "MAX LENGTH EXCEEDED"
  } else {
  txt = text.sourceText;
  }
  var array=[
  "Worker-ExtraBold",
  "Worker-Regular",
  ]
  text.sourceText.style
  .setFontSize(thisComp.layer("CTRL").effect("Font Size")("Slider"))
  .setFont(array[thisComp.layer("CTRL").effect("Font Select")("Slider")])
  .setText(txt)
• 

  Chris Taylor

  October 13, 2021 at 7:59 am

  Yep that worked perfectly

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