If ”not ” active

[Adam Greenberg]

Hi all, I have an expression I need to edit in a project and I want to avoid having to rewrite the whole project. basically I have an if else statement which looks at 2 conditions with ”&&”

But the FIRST condition is if a layer is active. so I need to write if this layer is not active. is this possible ?

here is the expression as is, but i need the 1st condition to be not active in order for my if statement to be true.

sourceSize = thisComp.layer(“TITLE”).sourceRectAtTime(time, false);

y = sourceSize.height;

if(thisComp.layer(“Mention”).active&&y>50) 100;

else 0

thanks so much

[Dan Ebberts]

Like this, I think:

if(! thisComp.layer("Mention").active && y>50) 100

[Adam Greenberg]

awesome, that works perfectly. I knew the symbol ! but could not figure out how to use it.

Thanks again Dan