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ExtendScript – How to find & select a comp and edit the Text layer?
I’ve been trying to figure out how to find and select a comp, and then edit the text layer without opening. I was hoping to set its value using a user-prompt string that’s pasted in when the script is invoked.
This script keeps returning the result as undefined, so I can’t make any progress.
var myPath = prompt("Directory?", "Paste path")
for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i ++) { if ((app.project.item(i) instanceof CompItem) && (app.project.item(i).name =="DataPath")) { var myComp = app.project.item(i); break; } }Edit::
So I think I was just typing in the wrong comp name.
The only thing I wanted to figure out at this point was how to set the value of a text layer. Something like redefinery's rd: Edit Text script where the text is the stuff i paste into the prompt at the beginning of the script, without changing the expression in the text layer.
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like this:
app.project.activeItem.layer("your text layer")("ADBE Text Properties")("ADBE Text Document").setValue("Here is the new values of the text")Andrei
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Ah, ok.
I think I got it:
var myPath = prompt("Directory?", "Paste path")
for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i ++) {
if ((app.project.item(i) instanceof CompItem) && (app.project.item(i).name =="PathString")) {
var myComp = app.project.item(i);
myComp.layer("MainPathString")("ADBE Text Properties")("ADBE Text Document").setValue(myPath)
break;
}
}
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