Writing “Alert” to Text File

[Dan Ebberts]

This should help:

var myFileName = “Example.txt”;
var myFilePath = “~/desktop/” + escape(myFileName);
var myMessage = “Hello world!”;
var myFile = new File(myFilePath);
myFile.open(“w”);
myFile.write(myMessage);
myFile.close();

Dan

[Ben Christie]

Dan,

This is exactly what I’m looking for!!!

Is there a way to name the text file your AE project title automatically instead of example?

Would I use the following code somehow?

Thanks!

myProjName = app.project.item(index).name;

[Ben Christie]

Hey Dan,

Also this is similar question in relation to the alert that you might be able to help with.

I have the following code that works really well at getting the information from my function but it keeps over writing the file with the new keyframe if I have five keyframes. If I have one it works well but if I have multiple they over write each other. I’m sure it’s because of the way I am calling the information from my function but I’m not sure how to fix it.

Any help would be great. Thanks!

var myFileName = "example.txt";
var myFilePath = "~/desktop/" + escape(myFileName);
var myMessage = "keyframe: " + i +" Cubic-bezier["+x1r+", "+y1r +", "+x2r+", "+y2r +"]";
var myFile = new File(myFilePath);
myFile.open("w");
myFile.write(myMessage);
myFile.close();

[Ben Christie]

Shoot I’m pretty sure it has to do with the fact that I’m looping a script to get each keyframes curve, and the keyframe is called “i” each time so it just overwrites itself.