SetFont and get different line width in same text box

Adobe After Effects Expressions

SetFont and get different line width in same text box

Posted by Anoki Acharya on December 30, 2020 at 9:45 pm
This script from this post works really well to get the width of different lines in the same text box.
```
if (time < 0){
s = value.split("\r");
txt = ""
for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){
if (time > -10*(i+1)){
txt = s[i];
break;
}
}
txt;
}else
value
```
I am trying to set the font through the menu dropdown and get the width at the same time. This is what I tried but only one function works. Is there a way to combine both functions or is it impossible to have two different functions applied for sourceText?

(New to expressions. Don’t know what is possible or not possible yet).
```
//This changes font
var dropDownFontMenuIndex = thisComp.layer("settings").effect("Font Menu Control")("Menu").value;
switch ( dropDownFontMenuIndex ){
	case 1: 
	      style.setFont("Rockwell-Bold");
		break;
	case 2: 
		style.setFont("Antonio-Bold");
		break;
	default: 
		style.setFont("Rockwell-Bold");
};
```
```
//This returns value
```
if (time < 0){

s = value.split("\r");

txt = ""

for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){

if (time > -10*(i+1)){

txt = s[i];

break;

}

}

txt;

}else{

value

}
Anoki Acharya replied 5 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
3 Replies

Filip Vandueren

December 30, 2020 at 9:51 pm

Something along these lines:

if (time < 0){
    s = value.split("\r");
    txt = ""
    for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){
        if (time > -10*(i+1)){
            txt = s[i];
            break;
        }
    }
} else {
    txt = value
}
//This changes font
var dropDownFontMenuIndex = thisComp.layer("settings").effect("Font Menu Control")("Menu").value;
switch ( dropDownFontMenuIndex ){
	case 1: 
	      style.setFont("Rockwell-Bold");
		break;
	case 2: 
		style.setFont("Antonio-Bold");
		break;
	default: 
		style.setFont("Rockwell-Bold");
};
style.setText(txt);
style;

Anoki Acharya
December 30, 2020 at 10:27 pm

That didn’t work but that gave me another idea. I will see if that works.

Anoki Acharya

December 30, 2020 at 10:35 pm

Added setFont and setText together and it works now. Thank you Filip!

I have been at this for few days now.

var txt = ""
var dropDownFontMenuIndex = thisComp.layer("settings").effect("Font Menu Control")("Menu").value;
if (time < 0){
	s = value.split("\r");
	for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){
		if (time > -10*(i+1)){
			txt = s[i];
			break;
		}
	}
}else{
	txt = value
}
switch ( dropDownFontMenuIndex ){
	case 1: 
		style.setFont("Rockwell-Bold").setText(txt);
		break;
	case 2: 
		style.setFont("Antonio-Bold").setText(txt);
		break;
	default: 
		style.setFont("Rockwell-Bold").setText(txt);
};

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up

Creative Communities of the World Forums