AE Script : Link Text.Source to Checkbox

[Darby Edelen]

The way you’ve described this it sounds like you want the text source to control a checkbox? I’d expect things to go the other way around generally.

At any rate, you’d need to check the value of the source text on each checkbox:

(thisComp.layer("MyText").source Text == "Hello!")

This should enable the checkbox if the MyText source text is Hello! Of course if the user enters hello? it wouldn’t match.

I haven’t checked the above code, there may be a small piece missing.

Darby Edelen

[Walter Soyka]

[Jonathon Lau] “As Premiere allows users to adjust AE text layers via dynamic link, I was going to control my expressions via Text.Source inputs. Sound idea, but I can’t do it.”

Have you seen my demo for this technique?

https://www.keenlive.com/renderbreak/2014/06/rigging-ae-comps-with-the-new-templates-feature/

I like to make it easier on the editor: I convert everything to lowercase for my testing, and check to see if the string contains the word I’m looking for rather than is strictly equal to it.

// get layer input and make it all lower case for easier testing
input = thisLayer.text.sourceText.toLowerCase();

// test to see if input contains "word"
if (input.indexOf("word") != -1) {
// what to do if "word" is found
} else {
// what to do if "word" is not found
}

(Also, this is an expression, not a script. Expressions are code that evaluate in the project as it is rendered and return a value into a property; scripts run outside of the render and can have manipulate the entire project.)

Walter Soyka
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[Jon Law]

Thanks for taking time to type that up. Helped me a lot!!