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Use a dropdown to select an array?
So, I have 40 different shows, each with 4 different layouts and I need to park a day/time box on a specific point on each layout. Sadly, the layouts are slightly different for each show so there’s no “one size fits all” approach.
So I thought each show has an array of four positions, one for each layout, and select the position via a “Layout” dropdown. Easy enough.
b=thisComp.layer("controls").effect("layout 2")("Menu"); //value of Layout menu
show1=[[50,50],[500,50],[50,500],[500,500]]; //array of possible positions show 1
show2=[[100,100],[500,100],[100,500],[500,100]]; //array of possible positions show 2
show2[b-1]Now the problem I’m hitting is selecting the correct array via a “Show” dropdown. I’ve tried multiple approaches, including an array of names matching the list of array names, selected by the “Show” dropdown. No dice. It seems to return the correct value but AE doesn’t see it as a variable name.
a=thisComp.layer("controls").effect("show")("Menu"); //value of Show menu
showList=["show0","show1","show2"];
showName=showList[a];
showName[b-1]Is there a way to pass a dropdown value to a variable name or is my logic fundamentally faulty?
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I haven’t tested this, but I would think that you’d want use the actual arrays in your showList, not strings representing their names. So like this:
showList=[show0,show1,show2];
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Sadly, no. Tried it a few ways and always returns some variation of “Cannot read property of undefined”
a=thisComp.layer("controls").effect("show")("Menu"); //value of Show menu
b=thisComp.layer("controls").effect("layout 2")("Menu"); //value of Layout menu
showList=[show1, show1, show2]; //dummy "show 1" at [0] for safety
show1=[[50,50],[500,50],[50,500],[500,500]]; //array of possible positions show 1
show2=[[100,100],[500,100],[100,500],[500,100]]; //array of possible positions show 2
showName=showList[a]; //showName is [a] value of showList array
showName[b] -
This works for me:
a=thisComp.layer("controls").effect("show")("Menu"); //value of Show menu
b=thisComp.layer("controls").effect("layout 2")("Menu"); //value of Layout menu
show1=[[50,50],[500,50],[50,500],[500,500]]; //array of possible positions show 1
show2=[[100,100],[500,100],[100,500],[500,100]]; //array of possible positions show 2
showList=[show1, show1, show2]; //dummy "show 1" at [0] for safety
showName=showList[a]; //showName is [a] value of showList array
showName[b-1] -
That DID work! I never knew that the order of variable assignments could be an issue. Thank you as always for the help.
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Thanks for the solve, Dan!
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