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Renaming items with scripts
Hello everyone
Here is the situation:
– I have an expression in comp A referring to comp B;
– If I change the name of comp B from the project panel manually, expressions will update automatically;
– If I change the name of comp B from the project panel by scripts, expressions will not update.How can I rename the comp B with script and expressions update automatically?
Cheers
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3 Replies
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Try it like this:
var originalCompName = "Comp B";
var newCompName = "Comp C";myComp.name = newCompName;
app.project.autoFixExpressions(originalCompName, newCompName);Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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And to clarify what it does… autoFixExpressions(oldText, newText) will identify all broken expressions, do a search and replace within them (swapping out oldText for newText), and committing that change if it fixes the break.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
@keenlive | RenderBreak [blog] | Profile [LinkedIn] -
Walter
Thank you very much.
Worked perfectly. And again thank you for the explanation.
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