[Dan Ebberts]

Unfortunately, with the current implementation, there’s no way you can use an expression to generate different styles for different characters within the same text layer. All characters end up with the same styling as the first character.

[Dan Ebberts]

My guess is that you have File > Project Settings > Expressions set to Legacy Extendscript. But in any case, you won’t be able to set more than one Font for a single text layer.

[Dan Ebberts]

Try replacing this:

if (! isNaN(parseFloat(txt)))
parseFloat(txt)

with this:

if (! isNaN(parseFloat(txt))){
  s = parseFloat(txt);
  [s,s];
}

[Dan Ebberts]

Yes, but get rid of the loopOut() part.

[Dan Ebberts]

Actually this might be better, in case you move the layer in the timeline:

tStart = effect("Start")("Slider");
dur = effect("Duration")("Slider");
tStart + (time - inPoint)%dur

[Dan Ebberts]

Something like this should work (where the slider times are in seconds):

tStart = effect("Start")("Slider");
dur = effect("Duration")("Slider");
tStart + time%dur

[Dan Ebberts]

This might help:

http://www.motionscript.com/articles/speed-control.html#other-applications

[Dan Ebberts]

I believe the JavaScript engine doesn’t allow you to end an expression with a function definition, so you might try moving the function to the top.

[Dan Ebberts]

I think the main thing is that you’re trying to loop through the project items while you’re adding items. Without knowing how you have things set up, I’d guess you should probably first put all the comps you want to duplicate into an array and then loop through that.

[Dan Ebberts]

Maybe something like this:

p = toComp(effect("Point Control")("Point"));
delta = p - [640,450];
value - delta