Script runs correctly when run manually, but it gives an error when run on Start Up

[Dan Ebberts]

It might help if we could see the script.

Dan

[Gregory Forster]

Oh yeah, that makes sense…

var compToBeOutput = app.project.item(35);
var comp1 = app.project.item(1);
var numGames = 7;
var p = 3;

compToBeOutput.duration = (90*numGames)/30;

compToBeOutput.layers.add(comp1);

for (i = 0; i<numGames-1; i++) {
var newComp = comp1.duplicate();
var newLayer = compToBeOutput.layers.add(newComp);
newLayer.startTime = p;
p = p + 3;
}

[Dan Ebberts]

My guess is that even when you launch AE by double-clicking a project file, any startup scripts get run after the plugins load, but before the project does. So it won’t know what to make of app.project.item(35) because there won’t be any items yet.

Dan

[Gregory Forster]

Yeah I think that’s the case. Thanks.

I added a .sleep to the script to make it wait for 10 seconds and the project didn’t load until the scripts completed.

[Dan Ebberts]

I don’t know if this will work, but here’s what I’d try. Wrap your startup code in a function, make that function part of the app object, and schedule it to run as a task in 5 seconds, like this:


function myInit(){
var compToBeOutput = app.project.item(35);
var comp1 = app.project.item(1);
var numGames = 7;
var p = 3;

compToBeOutput.duration = (90*numGames)/30;

compToBeOutput.layers.add(comp1);

for (i = 0; i

Dan