Changing the font style with Dropdown Menu Control

[Dan Ebberts]

You can do it, but your expression has to contain the actual font names (which may not match exactly the names in your dropdown). So the expression might look like this for “Arial”, “Bookman Old Style”, and “Lucida Console”, for example:

m = effect("LANGUAGE")("Menu").value;
switch(m){
	case 1:
		font = "ArialMT";
		break;
	case 2:
		font = "BookmanOldStyle";
		break;
	case 3:
		font = "LucidaConsole";
		break;
	default:
		font = "ArialMT";
		break;
}
style.setFont(font)

[Dmitriy Khomyakov]

unfortunately does not work. Maybe you know what the problem is?

[Dmitriy Khomyakov]

I found such an article, this is just what I need, but for some reason it does not work for me

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/setting-font-and-font-size-stylesetfont-stylesetf/

Setting Font and Font Size (style.setFont & style.setFontSize) AE 2020 issue

[Dan Ebberts]

Sorry, I missed the fact that you had the menu control on a separate layer. Try changing the first line to this:

m = thisComp.layer("CTRL").effect("LANGUAGE")("Menu");

[Dmitriy Khomyakov]

Again an error. Can you please correct me in the AE file (attached)

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[Dmitriy Khomyakov]

[Dan Ebberts]

You have the expression engine set to Legacy Extendscrpt.

set File > Project Settings > Expressions > Expressions Engine to JavaScript.

[Dmitriy Khomyakov]

It doesn’t work for me :((

I need Expression because everything else in the project is built on Expression

[Dan Ebberts]

Are you saying that you have expressions in your project that require the Legacy ExtendScript expression engine? If so, are there too many to just fix the expressions?

[Dmitriy Khomyakov]

I will punch.

And your expression in Java works, I switched it and it all worked. Thank you!