Naming new comps with higher value every time

[Dan Ebberts]

You’re going to need to loop through all the items in the project bin, looking for comps with names that contain the string “CompCut_”. When you find one you could also check to make sure that the name of the parent folder is “Comp Cuts”. Then I would split the comp name at “_” and convert the rest to an integer:

var maxCompNum = 0;

// loop through project items…

var mySplit = myCompName.split(“_”);
maxCompNum = Math.max(parseInt(mySplit[1],10),maxCompNum);

and after your loop is finished:

newCompNum = maxCompNum+1;

Something like that.

Dan

[Jacob Danell]

I never got it really working but I figured out how to make the script look into the folder, count the items and give the next created comp one higher value.

for (var i = 1; i <= app.project.numItems; i++){
if (app.project.item(i).name == "Comp Cuts" && app.project.item(i) instanceof FolderItem ){
var cutCompFolder = app.project.item(i);
}

var foldernr = cutCompFolder.numItems;

var tempComp1 = app.project.items.addComp("CutComp_"+foldernr, mainWm1theP, mainHm1theP, maincomPA , maincompDur, maincomFR);
var tempComp2 = app.project.items.addComp("CutComp_"+(foldernr+1), mainWtheP, mainHtheP, maincomPA , maincompDur, maincomFR);


The only “problem” (that I can live with but would be nice if it was fixed) is that they are named 1, 2, 3… 8, 9, 10, 11 and so on, so adobe arrange them as 1, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4 and so on. Is there any way to force two digits when creating the number? So it would be 08, 09, 10 and so on.

[Dan Ebberts]

Something like this should work:

var foldernr = “” + cutCompFolder.numItems;
while (foldernr.length < 2) foldernr = “0” + foldernr;

Dan

[Xavier Gomez]

var foldernr = cutCompFolder.numItems;
foldernr = (foldernr<10) ? “0”+foldernr.toString() : foldernr.toString();