[Andrei Popa]

I think this will be the fastest way

var comp = app.project.activeItem;
var layers = comp.selectedLayers;
if (layers.length == 0) {
    alert("You must select a layer");
} else {
    for (var i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) {
        if (layers[i] instanceof ShapeLayer) {
            var myTrim = layers[i].property("ADBE Root Vectors Group")("ADBE Vector Filter - Trim")
                ? layers[i].property("ADBE Root Vectors Group")("ADBE Vector Filter - Trim")
                : layers[i].property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Filter - Trim");
            //and then://
            myTrim("ADBE Vector Trim Start").expression = "value";
        }
    }
}

[Andrei Popa]

Depends how far you are wiling to go. You want to make a script to highlight these texts? You want to use only expressions? How does After Effects know which words have different format, and which format?

[Andrei Popa]

I think this is what you need

var comp = app.project.activeItem;
var layers = comp.selectedLayers;
if (layers.length == 0) {
    alert("You must select a layer");
} else {
    for (var i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) {
        if (layers[i] instanceof ShapeLayer) {
            var myTrim = layers[i].property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Filter - Trim");
            //and then://
            myTrim("ADBE Vector Trim Start").expression = "value";
        }
    }
}

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Allan.

This should work

myLayer.text.moreOption.fillANdStroke.setValue(2);

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Tom. You can try this. But this will only check spaces as word differentiators, not newlines.

c = thisLayer;
count = 0;
for (i = 1; i <= c.marker.numKeys; i++) {
    if (c.marker.key(i).time > time) break;
    count++;
}
var result = value.split(" ").slice(0, count).join(" ");
result;

[Andrei Popa]

As of after effects 2017, this should be done with

app.project.toolType = ToolType.Tool_Pen; 

More on this at the page 52 of this document

After Effects Scripting Guide (readthedocs.org)

[Andrei Popa]

Hi.

I think this could work. You still need to do some testing.

Add a scale animator to your text. Set units to index, set mode to subtract and scale to 0.

Then on start and end add these expressions.

txt = text.sourceText.replace(/\r/g,"");
var parts = ["testing", "is a text"];
if(time<0){
	val = txt.indexOf(parts[-Math.ceil(time+1)]);
	}else{
		val = value}
	val

txt = text.sourceText.replace(/\r/g,"");
var parts = ["testing", "is a text"];
if(time<0){
	val = text.animator("Animator 1").selector("Range Selector 1").start+parts[-Math.ceil(time+1)].length;
	}else{
		val = txt.length}
	val

And when you want to see the text width for some specific word, run:

thisComp.layer("Text Layer").sourceRectAtTime(-1,false).width

-1 means the first word from the array, -2 means the second and so on.

[Andrei Popa]

I don’t think you need a function for that. This should work:

compToSearch.layer(layNS).index

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Dagur.

Try changing the 4th row to this

var rowCount = Math.round(targetObj.sourceRectAtTime(0,false).height/txtSize);

Andrei

[Andrei Popa]

As far as I know, they are different because Adobe introduced the ability to access comp markers a few years later. The only big difference for us, the users, is that the markers for layers are accessed through layer.marker and the comp markers are accessed through comp.markerProperty. The result of these 2 calls is the same property type, so I assume we can treat them the same way.