[Dan Ebberts]

I think we need more info on what it is that you’re trying to do exactly, and maybe an example of what it would look like.

[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t tested this, but I think, as you loop through the layers, you need to save off the shortest distance, and use that at the end, like this:

l = 0;
lMin = 999999;
for( i=1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++){
  curLayer = thisComp.layer(i);
  if(curLayer.name.slice(0, 3) == "C_M" && curLayer.effect("Circle Moving")("Fill Color") == 1) {
    pointA = curLayer.toComp(position)[1];
    pointB = thisLayer.toComp(position)[1];
    l = length(pointA, pointB);
    lMin = Math.min(l,lMin);
  }
}
s = ease(lMin,0,200,53,33);
[s,s]

[Dan Ebberts]

You could use the hack where you save the value of that variable as the result of the expression for negative time by replacing the last line of your expression with this:

time < 0 ? lineCount : str

then you could retrieve the number from a different property, like this:

parseInt(thisComp.layer("Text").text.sourceText.valueAtTime(-1));

[Dan Ebberts]

The expression engine will ignore JavaScript comments, so for single-line comments,

any text between // and the end of the line will be ignored.

Also, any block of text between /* and */ will be ignored,

/*
so this would
be a comment
*/

// as would this

[Dan Ebberts]

In general, you could set it up like this:

cb = effect("Checkbox Control")("Checkbox").value;
cb ? effect("Slider Control 1")("Slider") : effect("Slider Control 2")("Slider");

[Dan Ebberts]

Play around with this:

var rotationAvatar = thisComp.layer("Control General Avatar").transform.yRotation%360;
if (rotationAvatar < 181)
  ease(rotationAvatar,52,82,0,100)
else
  ease(rotationAvatar,280,310,100,0)

[Dan Ebberts]

This works for me:

var comp = app.project.activeItem;
var strokeEffect = comp.layer(1).property("Effects").property("Stroke");
strokeEffect.property("Path").setValue(1); // set to "Mask 1"
strokeEffect.property("Paint Style").setValue(3);  // set to "Reveal Original Image"
var startTime = comp.time;
var endTime = comp.time + 1;
var endProp = strokeEffect.property("End");
endProp.setValueAtTime(startTime, 0);
endProp.setValueAtTime(endTime, 100);

[Dan Ebberts]

You could change the last line to:

time > segEndTime - flickerDur ? random(0,100) : 0

[Dan Ebberts]

If you add an expression selector and delete the range selector, and apply this to expression selector’s Amount property, it might get you close to what you’re after:

minSeg = 1.5; //minimum interval (must be > 0)
maxSeg = 2.5; //maximum interval (must be > minSeg)
minFlicker = .5; //must be less than minSeg
maxFlicker = 1; // must be less than minSeg
segStartTime = 0; //initial conditions
segEndTime = 0;
i = textIndex*1103;
while (time >= segEndTime){
  i += 1;
  seedRandom(i,true);
  segStartTime = segEndTime;
  segEndTime = segEndTime + random(minSeg,maxSeg);
}
flickerDur = random(minFlicker,maxFlicker);
seedRandom(textIndex,false);
time > segEndTime - flickerDur ? random(0,100) : 100

[Dan Ebberts]

This should be all you need:

c = thisComp.layer("Layer2").text.sourceText.value;
hexToRgb(c)