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Formatting text that has a counter expression applied? Paging Mr. Dan.
So I’m using the following code from Dan Ebberts’s site, to animate text from 0 to $10,000,000:
numDecimals = 0;
commas = true;
dollarSign = true;
beginCount = 0;
endCount = 10000000;
dur = 4;t = time - inPoint;
s = linear (t, 0, dur, beginCount, endCount).toFixed(numDecimals);prefix = "";
if (s[0] == "-"){
prefix = "-";
s = s.substr(1);
}
if(dollarSign) prefix += "$";if (commas){
decimals = "";
if (numDecimals > 0){
decimals = s.substr(-(numDecimals + 1));
s = s.substr(0,s.length - (numDecimals + 1));
}
outStr = s.substr(-s.length, (s.length-1)%3 +1);
for (i = Math.floor((s.length-1)/3); i > 0; i--){
outStr += "," + s.substr(-i*3,3);
}
prefix + outStr + decimals;
}else{
prefix + s;
}It works incredibly well, but I need to style the text.
1) I need the dollar sign to be a smaller size and need to control it’s baseline shift.
2) The commas need to be a smaller size than the rest of the numbers.
3) The vertical scale of the entire chunk of text needs to be greater than 100% for the numbers but nothing else.
Any ideas?
Eric Bowman
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2 Replies
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You could try using three separate animators. For each animator you would add an expression selector, delete the range selector and add an expression to the expression selector amount property.
For the smaller dollar sign and commas, use a scale animator (scale set to 60,60 say) with this expression:
txt = text.sourceText;
if (txt[textIndex-1] == “$” || txt[textIndex-1] == “,”) 100 else 0For the dollar sign baseline shift, use a position animator (try position value of 0,10) and this expression:
txt = text.sourceText;
if (txt[textIndex-1] == “$”) 100 else 0For the taller numbers, another scale animator (scale value 100,125) and this expression:
txt = text.sourceText;
if (txt[textIndex-1] >= “0” && txt[textIndex-1] <= “9”) 100 else 0You might also want to add a fourth (tracking) animator with the same expression as the first animator to tighten things up a little.
Dan
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Thanks so much Dan!!!
I just learned a ton from you. I need to buy you some beer or something. This was EXACTLY what I needed. You win an AWESOME award for the day. 😉
Eric Bowman
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