[Dan Ebberts]

A little more complicate, but not much:

easeFrames = 6;
s = text.sourceText.style;
leading = s.autoLeading ? s.fontSize*1.2 : s.leading;
m = marker;
n = 0;
y = 0;
if (m.numKeys > 0){
  n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (time < m.key(n).time) n--;
}
if (n > 0){
  t = time - m.key(n).time;
  easeDur = framesToTime(easeFrames);
  y = (n-1)*leading + ease(t,0,easeDur,0,leading);
}
value - [0,y]

[Dan Ebberts]

Hmmm… It works fine for me. It’s a position expression. It would complain if you’ve separated dimensions, but I think it would be a different error. Can you post a screen shot showing the expression?

[Dan Ebberts]

Did you give any thought to creating a pseudo effect slider?

[Dan Ebberts]

Are you saying you need help with this, or do you have what you need?

[Dan Ebberts]

I’d start with something like this:

leading = text.sourceText.style.leading;
m = marker;
n = 0;
if (m.numKeys > 0){
  n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (time < m.key(n).time) n--;
}
y = n*leading;
value - [0,y]

[Dan Ebberts]

You can put an expression like this on the Preset property to connect it to a dropdown menu, and it will change the preset name as expected, but it doesn’t seem to update the rendered result:

m = effect("Dropdown Menu Control")("Menu").value;
switch(m){
  case 1:
    r = 3; // Are Reactor
    break;
  case 2:
    r = 4; // Cellular
    break;
  case 3:
    r = 5; // Burning
    break;
  case 4:
    r = 6; // Core
    break;
  case 5:
    r = 7;  // Electric
    break;
  default:
    r = 1;  // Default
    break;
}
r

[Dan Ebberts]

I don’t think there’s any way to access the names of the effect menu items, either through expressions or scripting, if that’s what you mean.

[Dan Ebberts]

This seems to work:

value.replace(/(^|\s)(")/g, "$1“").replace(/"/g, "”");

[Dan Ebberts]

Try it this way:

In = thisLayer.marker.key(1).time;
Out = thisLayer.marker.key(2).time;
dur = 0.2;
s = time < (In +Out)/2 ? linear(time, In-dur, In, 0, 100) : linear(time, Out, Out + dur, 100, 0);
[s,s]

[Dan Ebberts]

I think I’d set it up like this:

a = 0;
b = 3;
n = "3 4";
val = 0;
for (i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++){
  if (thisComp.layer(i).name.substr(a,b) == n){
    val = 100;
    break;
  }
}
val