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Source text linked to TSV, but how to add Slider to choose columns from TSV
Hi all. I have linked a tsv file to my text layers. But because I will have alot of precomps later, and a lot more of columns, I would like to have a slider control in the main comp so all precomps can go to the next column by changing slider value.
I’m not too familiar with scripting/expression and tried to pickwhip the values. Then the expression fails as you can see in printscreens.
Does anyone know how this can work?
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5 Replies
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Can yo check if the tsv file is a clean txt file without any other formatting/metadata ?
The error seems to suggest the problem is with the data, not your code.
Can you see the automatically created data-links when you drop the tsv file into a comp ?
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Hmm, data seems to be all right. And when manually changing values it reads out the DATA.tsv perfectly.
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It looks like your slider is using a comma as a decimal point. The text data index is expecting 2 values but since there is a comma it is interpreting that as 3 values and breaking. Try replacing the comma on your slider using a .replace(‘,’ , ‘.’) function. Should be able to pick whip the slider on itself and add that to the end. This is just a theory since how you have it set up should work.
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Hmm very vague, just like that it does work. Seems like whenever the slider goes to pull from a blank cell in TSV it breaks.
footage(“DATA.tsv”).dataValue([comp(“MAIN comp”).layer(“COLUMN_TSV”).effect(“Column”)(“Slider”),thisComp.layer(“ROW_TSV”).effect(“Row”)(“Slider”)])
But I’ll take that, just making a backup layer containing the //code to copy paste whenever I accidently ‘slide’ too far.
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I’ve tried to replicate the error, but it works for me.
Try adding .value after each (“Slider”) to explicitly get the number ?
and maybe also Math.round(…(“Slider”).value) to make sure it’s an integer ?
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