evalFile local path?

[Trent Armstrong]

Dan Ebberts has some thoughts on this where you use a text layer inside the AE project to house the expression.

txt = thisComp.layer(“Text”).text.sourceText.value;
eval(txt)

You can then send over AE projects with expressions in text layers to anyone Mac or Windows that they import into their project and then set up the correct reference.

[Darren Lee]

Thanks Trent, I’ve actually used that method before. The reason I have external scripts though is to use then in an editor..

[Trent Armstrong]

Okay! Cool! Use the ~ to get to the Desktop of any user on Mac.

myPath = “~/Desktop/Project/Expression.js”;

$.evalFile (myPath);

[Darren Lee]

Thanks