• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  selecting render queue items via script

  Posted by Dror Lazar on June 23, 2016 at 10:43 am

  Hi
  i’m looking for a way to select items in the render queue via script.
  i’m creating a listBox that contains all the RQ items ( i need to list them in a simpler way then the RQ window, and i’m keeping the index number of each item), and i want to select from that list items and select them in the RQ.
  ideas?
  thanks
  Dror

  try{

  function createUserInterface (thisObj,userInterfaceString,scriptName){
  var pal = (thisObj instanceof Panel) ? thisObj : new Window("palette", scriptName,
  undefined,{resizeable: true});
  if (pal == null) return pal;

  var UI=pal.add(userInterfaceString);

  pal.layout.layout(true);
  pal.layout.resize();
  pal.onResizing = pal.onResize = function () {
  this.layout.resize();
  }
  if ((pal != null) && (pal instanceof Window)) {
  pal.show();
  }
  return UI;
  };

  {var res ="group {orientation:'column',\
  alignment:['fill','fill'],\
  alignChildren:['fill','top'],\
  folderPathListbox:ListBox{\
  alignment:['fill','fill'],\
  properties:{\
  multiline:true,\
  multiselect:true,\
  numberOfColumns:6,\
  showHeaders:true,\
  columnTitles: ['#','OM','Date','Time', 'Comp Name', 'Render Path']}\
  },\
  buttonGroup:Group{orientation:'row',\
  alignment:['fill','bottom']\
  alignChildren:['fill','bottom'],\
  buttonPanel: Panel{\
  text:'Actions',\
  orientation: 'row',\
  alignment:['fill','bottom']\
  refButton: Button{text:'Refresh'}\
  dupButton: Button{text:'Duplicate'}\
  selButton: Button{text:'Select in RQ'}\
  expButton: Button{text:'Export'}\
  }\
  searchPanel: Panel{\
  text:'Search',\
  orientation: 'row',\
  searchBox: EditText{text:'search by fileName'},\
  searchButton: Button{text:'Search'}, \
  }\
  }\
  }";

  }
  function listRQ (rqList){
  try{
  var folderPathListbox = rqList;
  var proj = app.project;
  var totalRenderQ = proj.renderQueue.numItems;
  for(var i= 1; i<=totalRenderQ; i++){
  var totalOM= proj.renderQueue.item(i).numOutputModules;
  for (var om= 1; om<=totalOM; om++){
  var dateList, timeList, curItem;
  if (proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime != null){
  var min = proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime.getMinutes() <10 ? "0"+ proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime.getMinutes() : proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime.getMinutes();
  var year = proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime.getFullYear().toString().substr (-2,2);
  timeList = (proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime.getHours()-1)+":" + min;
  dateList =proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime.getDate()+"/"+(proj.renderQueue.item(i).startTime.getMonth()+1)+"/"+year ;
  }else{
  dateList = "not ";
  timeList = "rendered";
  }
  curItem = folderPathListbox.add ('item', i ); // Column 1
  curItem.subItems[0].text = om; // Column 2
  curItem.subItems[1].text = dateList.toString(); // Column 3
  curItem.subItems[2].text = timeList.toString(); // Column 4
  curItem.subItems[3].text = proj.renderQueue.item(i).comp.name; // Column 5
  curItem.subItems[4].text = proj.renderQueue.item(i).outputModule(om).file.toString().replace(new RegExp(",","g"), "\r").replace(new RegExp("%20","g"), " ").replace(new RegExp("%5B","g"), "[").replace(new RegExp("%5D","g"), "]"); // Column 6
  }
  }
  }catch(err){alert(err)}
  return folderPathListbox;
  }

  var UI = createUserInterface(this,res,"Better RQ");
  var myList = UI.folderPathListbox;
  var lsRq = listRQ(myList);
  //~ alert(lsRq.toString());

  { // buttons action
  UI.buttonGroup.buttonPanel.refButton.onClick = function () {
  lsRq.removeAll();
  listRQ(myList);
  writeLn("all done");
  }
  UI.buttonGroup.buttonPanel.dupButton.onClick = function () {
  var lstSlct = new Array ;
  lstSlct = myList.selection;
  if ( lstSlct != null){
  var totalDup = lstSlct.length;
  for (var i= 0; i<totalDup; i++){
  var lsId = lstSlct[i].toString();
  var dup = parseInt(lsId);
  app.project.renderQueue.item(dup).duplicate();
  writeLn("duplicated #"+dup);
  }
  }else{
  alert ("select Something");
  }

  }
  UI.buttonGroup.buttonPanel.selButton.onClick = function () {
  app.project.renderQueue.showWindow(true) ; //shows the RQ
  alert ("selButton");
  }
  UI.buttonGroup.buttonPanel.expButton.onClick = function () {
  alert ("expButton");
  }
  }

  }
  catch(err){
  alert ("Error at line # " + err.line.toString() + "\r" + err.toString());
  }

  Dror Lazar replied 10 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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