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  ExtendScript – Populate text and effect

  Posted by Chase Wells on October 11, 2019 at 12:04 am

  Greetings!

  I’m very new to extendscript and was wondering if somebody could give me a quick hand.

  I’m trying to accomplish a script that you can click a button which populates text with an effect added to it.

  I was able to piece together a button and populate text but am unable to assign any effects to it. Below is the script i used.

  var myWin = new Window(“palette”, “My Window”,undefined);

  var closeGroup = myWin.add(“group”, undefined, “GroupOne”);

  var closeButton = closeGroup.add(“button”, undefined, “Click Me”);

  myWin.center();
  myWin.show();

  closeButton.onClick = function(){
  app.project.item(1).layers.addText(“TEST TEXT”);
  }
  

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Tomas Bumbulevičius replied 6 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tomas Bumbulevičius

  October 14, 2019 at 9:41 am

  Hey Chase, what your current script does – it adds a text layer.

  However, what you do ask for – to populate text and effect (what effect?) added to it.

  Please let us know the following:
  1. By populate text, you want ‘text layer’s’ text value to be shown in a dialog?
  2. What effects you refer to? Is it effects applied to a layer, or layer effects, or anything else?

  This will help to narrow it down.

  Find out more:
  After Effects Tutorials: motion design, expressions, scripting.
  Boxer – Dynamic Text Boxes Template with a Live Preview

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