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Error inside try{} statement (script)
Hi there,
I’m getting a weird error in a script… (not an expression)
I’m using a try{} catch(error){} statement to test the value of a property that may or may not exist and to avoid a long loop through all properties of all layers testing for its existence.
However, After Effects is giving me an error at a line inside the try{} statement. “Null is not an object”. The error is not the problem though. The object in question will often be null, that’s exactly why I’m using a try statement, to catch the error when it happens. I’m just a bit perplexed as to why the try statement isn’t catching the error. If I stop the script and run it for a second time, there are no errors and everything works exactly as expected. This happens in CS3 and CS4 and is totally repeatable. Open project -> run script -> error. Run script again -> no error.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar and / or found a solution?
Thanks.
Ben.
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1 Reply
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My experience has been that try/catch doesn’t catch everything, but I don’t think I’ve encountered your situtation where it doesn’t behave the same on subsequent runs. Sounds like it might be a bug.
Dan
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