• Adobe After Effects

  CTI moving in time weirdly

  Posted by Sebastian Moreno on October 24, 2017 at 11:42 am

  Hi all
  I am doing a quick script to move the current time indicator to a new time given by a edittext field.
  so far works to go backwards but behaves differently when I try to go forward in time:

  btn01.onClick = function () {

  var textInput = Input.text;
  var active = app.project.activeItem;

  active.time -= textInput; //works fine

  }

  btn02.onClick = function () {

  var textInput = Input.text;
  var active = app.project.activeItem;

  active.time += textInput;

  // works in a digit + digit way
  // so if I entered 1 and the current time is 1 it would be: 1+1=11

  }

  any ideas how this can be solved?

  Thanks in advance

  Walter Soyka replied 8 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  October 24, 2017 at 1:34 pm

  activeTime is being recast as a string because textInput is a string. Therefore, the number 1 is being recast as a string ‘1’ and then concatenated with another string ‘1’, yielding ’11’. You want to make sure that your textInput is understood explicitly as a number.

  Try:

  activeTime += parseFloat(textInput);

  Walter Soyka
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