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toString()? trouble converting interger to string.
Hey folks. I feel like this is a pretty basic javascript questions. I’m creating a toolkit and wish to use a dropdown menu to control the selection of a shape layer to use as a matte. However, whenever I try to convert the interger Im getting out of a dropdown menu expression control effect, I’m running into issues. I’m trying to get this expressions to return the string: “Crop_01” but instead, it’s returning “Crop_0[object property]”
a=thisComp.layer(“BackgroundControls”).effect(“CropSelection”)(“Menu”).toString();
“Crop_0″+aThe strange part is that if I remove “toString()” I get “NaN.” Also, if I replace variable a with just the integer “1”, I get it to read properly. Does anyone know what’s going on? Doe dropbown menus return strings? or am I using toString improperly?
I’m half a mind to use a series of “else if().” to get this working for now, but this problem is bugging me.
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It works for me without the toString(), but where have you applied this expression?
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Thanks for the quick reply, Dan. I was testing the expression above on the source parameter of a text layer. But I just tried this expression on the path property of a shape layer (where it will end up), and am getting the error below:
c=thisComp.layer(“BackgroundControls”).effect(“CropSelection”)(“Menu”);
a=”Crop_0″+c;thisComp.layer(a).content(“Group 4”).content(“Path 1”).path
Error: Bad Method Arguments: incorrect type for argument 1 (expected: ‘int’ provided: ‘NaN’)
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Ah. I think you might be using the Legacy ExtendScript expression engine. If you can’t switch to the JavaScript engine for some reason, try changing your fist line to this:
c = thisComp.layer("BackgroundControls").effect("CropSelection")("Menu").value;
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