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  • ExtendScript – this keyword

    Posted by Krishna Moorthy on December 11, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    Working on a After Effects script for my own project. On my process of learning to do scripting for ae, I came across a keyword “this” in many scripts and I couldn’t find the meaning for it and how to use it. I couldn’t find any resource related to that on the internet too. A brief explanation will be helpful.

    Thanks in advance!

    Walter Soyka replied 9 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Walter Soyka

    December 11, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    “this” is Javascript, and it refers to the object of which the function in which “this” is used is a method — kind of like the function/method’s parent.

    Walter Soyka
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