• Adobe After Effects

  Counting with Static Text

  Posted by Daniel Elder on April 14, 2008 at 8:26 pm

  I want to use this code, but I want static text to stay to the right of the numbers as they grow. So as it goes from 0 to 5000 I want FT to be next to it the whole time. So it looks like this:

  0 FT
  100 FT
  1000 FT

  Can I add something to this code to make that happen?

  //begin code

  startTime = 0; //seconds
  endTime = 5; //seconds
  beginCount = 0;
  endCount = 2000;
  hasCommas = true;
  //–dont modify below here—————-
  function addCommas ( s ){
  if( s.length <= 3 ) return s; else return s.substring(0 , 3) + "," + addCommas(s.substring(3, s.length)); } function reverse( s ){ newStr = ""; for(i = s.length-1; i >= 0; i–)
  newStr += s.charAt(i)
  return newStr;
  }

  val = Math.round (linear(time, startTime, endTime, beginCount, endCount) );
  if( hasCommas )
  reverse (addCommas(reverse( val + “” )))
  else
  val

  //end code

  Thanks

  Daniel Elder
  producer
  http://www.luminair.com

  Daniel Elder replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
• 5 Replies

• 

  Kevin Camp

  April 14, 2008 at 8:37 pm

  try changing this line:

  reverse (addCommas(reverse( val + “” )))

  to:

  reverse (addCommas(reverse( val + “” ))) + ” FT”

  then set the text alignment to right justification in the paragraph settings.

  you might also change the last line to:

  val + ” FT”

  just for good measure…

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
• 

  Daniel Elder

  April 14, 2008 at 8:53 pm

  perfect, thanks for the tip

  Daniel Elder
  producer
  http://www.luminair.com
• 

  Daniel Elder

  April 15, 2008 at 3:37 pm

  A Couple more question. With that same code, I want to add a $ sign before the numbers? And also if I go to over 1 million, the ‘ , ‘ comes before the numbers i.e ‘ ,345,000 ‘ or
  ‘ ,690,000’ I want to remove the first comma until I do actually cross the 1 million number how can I do that?

  Daniel Elder
  producer
  http://www.luminair.com
• 

  Kevin Camp

  April 15, 2008 at 4:06 pm

  you can add the $ by just changing the same two lines… so this line:
  reverse (addCommas(reverse( val + “” )))
  would be:
  “$ ” + reverse (addCommas(reverse( val + “” )))
  and the last line would be:
  “$ ” + val

  as far as the comma issue, i’m not seeing that problem with the code your posted… it works fine for me. try re-pasting the code into the expression field to see if that fixes it.

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
• 

  Daniel Elder

  April 15, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  Thanks again, worked perfectly. I think what was happening with the other comma came from how I had set up the expression. Fixed it, all is good.

  Daniel Elder
  producer
  http://www.luminair.com

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