• Adobe After Effects

  Dynamic Text in UI Panel Extendscript

  Posted by Phil Largilliere on February 19, 2018 at 2:02 pm

  Hi everyone,

  I’m tyring to create a UI Panel to get some currently expressions codes for my colleagues, but I really don’t know how to display infomartions in my text zone.
  I already wrote this, it’s pretty dirty for now, but this is how it should work :

  My text zone is empty, then when I click on one of the radio button (or on the getCodeBtn), it will look for differents codes (I will enter them into a array) and display it in my text zone…

  
exprCode = "";

  {
  function myScript(thisObj) {
  function myScript_buildUI(thisObj) {
  var myPanel = (thisObj instanceof Panel) ? thisObj : new Window("palette", "Menu Tests", undefined, {resizeable:true});

  res="group{ \
  orientation:'column', align:'left',\
  code : Group {orientation:'row', alignment:['fill','fill'], spacing:5, \
  myRadioButton01: RadioButton{text:'Opacité', tooltipActive:'2 Lettres'},\
  myRadioButton02: RadioButton{text:'Texte', tooltipActive:'2 Lettres'},\
  myRadioButton03: RadioButton{text:'Code', tooltipActive:'2 Lettres'},\
  myRadioButton04: RadioButton{text:'Flash', tooltipActive:'2 Lettres'},\
  }\
  textZone : Group { \
  orientation:'column', alignment:['fill','fill'], spacing:5, \
  heading: Group {alignment:['fill','top'], lbl: StaticText { text:'Code à copier', alignment:['left','bottom'] }, \
  }, \
  getCode: EditText { text:'', properties:{'multiline':true}, alignment:['fill','fill'], minimumSize:[500,120] }, \
  }, \
  cmd: Group { \
  alignment:['fill','bottom'], \
  getCodeBtn: Button { text:'Chopper un code', alignment:['right','top'], preferredSize:[-1,20] }, \
  }, \
  }";

  myPanel.grp = myPanel.add(res);

  myPanel.grp.cmd.getPropPathBtn.onClick = afficheCode;
  myPanel.grp.textZone.getCode.text = exprCode;

  function afficheCode()
  {
  exprCode = "Ta mémé !"
  alert(exprCode);
  myScript(this);
  this.parent.parent.textZone.heading.getCode.enabled = true;
  }

  myPanel.layout.layout(true);

  return myPanel;
  }

  var myScriptPal = myScript_buildUI(thisObj);

  if(myScriptPal != null && myScriptPal instanceof Window){
  myScriptPal.left();
  myScriptPal.show();
  }
  }

  myScript(this);
}

  Hope it’s clear enough :/
  Thanks for your help

  Phil Largilliere replied 8 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Joseph Simons

  February 20, 2018 at 3:46 am

  Hi Phil,

  I can’t directly answer your question, but found your post as I was attempting to do something similar. Your base code looks exactly like what I’ve been referencing in David Torno’s online course, so I’m assuming you’re in a similar place as I am.

  I found this resource for all the possible edittext properties, which I think you’ll find useful.

  https://jongware.mit.edu/iljscs6html/iljscs6/pc_EditText.html

  Good luck with your coding endeavors!

  Joseph
• 

  Phil Largilliere

  February 22, 2018 at 1:36 pm

  I didn’t find how it works… Do you know a place where I can find more tutorials as David Torno did on provideocoalition ? Or on Adobe website ?

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