[Andrei Popa]

I don’t know about Motion2 Orbit, but for what you need i suggest this approach.

On your layer(the one that orbitates on the circle) add a slider named Radius. This is the radius of the circle. Then add this to anchorpoint:

var left = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).left;
var myHeight = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).height;
var myWidth = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width;
var top = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).top;
[left+myWidth/2-effect("Radius")("Slider"),myHeight/2+top]

Then add this to rotation.

360/thisComp.numLayers*index

This works in a comp where only the initial layer and its copies exist. But you can alter the code from the rotation a bit to fit any case.

For example, you can replace thisComp.numLayers with the number of your copies.
Or instead of index, you can writen index-n, where n equals the index of the first layer -1.

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[Andrei Popa]

This to the rotation of the arrow:

p2 = thisComp.layer("Arrow Layer").toComp([0,0]);
p1 = toComp(anchorPoint);
v = p2-p1;
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(v[1],v[0]))

This expression was offered as solution by Dan Ebberts in this thread

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[Andrei Popa]

First, I would put an else after checking if the file exists. So the script doesn’t try to open the next script.

Then, I think(not by far sure) that what happens is that you declare the second window inside the button variable. So i think the scope is what makes you trouble. I thin dialog has direct scope to the main app or something(since you can;t have 2).

Long story short, if you declare your second window inside the main program, it works.

File 1 :
var w = new Window("palette", "script", undefined);
var w2 = new Window("palette", "script", undefined);

var btn = w.add("button", undefined, "Lauch");

var file = new File("‎~/Desktop/test.jsx");

btn.onClick = function () {
if (!file.exists) {
alert("WRONG LOCATIONS")
} else {
file.open("r");
eval(file.read());
file.close();
}

}

w.show();

File 2:
var btn = w2.add("button",undefined,"TEST");

w2.show();

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[Andrei Popa]

like this:

app.project.activeItem.layer("your text layer")("ADBE Text Properties")("ADBE Text Document").setValue("Here is the new values of the text")

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[Andrei Popa]

You can’t retrieve the position of a letter in a paragraph. The only way you could do what you want if you made a layer for each letter.

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[Andrei Popa]

Sholdn’t this be faster and easier?

sourceText= thisComp.layer("Same text, But without The final line").text.sourceText;
sourceText.split("\r").slice(0,-1).join("\r")

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[Andrei Popa]

If you have a league, lets say, you can put all the png in a composition and add an expression to the opacity, so they are only visible if they are in the JSON.
One comp for each team(visiting/away)

And in the JSON, instead of filename, you put the name of the team.

Experssion should be something like this:

Home team comp

eval("var json=" + footage("json.json").sourceText);
(json[match1team1icon]==thisLayer.name) ? 100 : 0

Visiting team comp

eval("var json=" + footage("json.json").sourceText);
(json[match1team1icon]==thisLayer.name) ? 100 : 0

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[Andrei Popa]

Try with this expression:

maxW = thisComp.layer("ExpCTRL").effect("Max Text Length (px)")("Slider");
txtW = sourceRectAtTime().width;
(txtW <= maxW) ? value : "You have exceeded \rthe maximum length allowed."

You should use “value” when addressing the property value before the expression. Because sometimes I think AE runs the expression again. And with your expression, the second time it runs, this.text.sourceText; is your error text which satisfies the first part of the if. Then, it’s too long again, then it must go with the second part again, etc.
I hope I was clear enough.

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[Andrei Popa]

I never thought about that. Maybe a point control? Or maybe some values that can’t expand to 3d. Surely there must be some in all the effects.

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And if i try to bypass the maxValue property by skipping this name i get an error on two different rows, which i did not even know was possible.

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