Autoscale Text Box for two lines of text

[Adam Greenberg]

here is the code for people who may stumble on this thread one day, to be applied to the path ( you need to add the path property to the rectangle of the shape layer )

margin = 30;

t1=thisComp.layer(“textLayer”);

s1=t1.sourceRectAtTime();

t2=thisComp.layer(“textLayer 2”);

s2=t2.sourceRectAtTime();

l = t1.toComp([s1.left, s1.top])[0] – margin;

r = t2.toComp([s2.left+s2.width, s1.top])[0] + margin;

t = Math.min(t1.toComp([s1.left, s1.top])[1], t2.toComp([s2.left+s2.width, s2.top])[1]) – margin;

b = Math.max(t1.toComp([s1.left, s1.top+s1.height])[1], t2.toComp([s2.left+s2.width, s2.top+s2.height])[1]) + margin;

y = thisComp.layer(“textLayer”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“textLayer”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“textLayer”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0]+margin;

z = thisComp.layer(“textLayer 2”).toComp([thisComp.layer(“textLayer 2”).sourceRectAtTime().left+thisComp.layer(“textLayer 2”).sourceRectAtTime().width,0],2)[0]+margin;

x = Math.max(y,z);

createPath( [fromComp([l,t]), fromComp([x,t]), fromComp([x,b]), fromComp([l,b])], [],[], true);