[Gabriel Netto]

Thank you very much Dan!
I’m a great fan of your work!

I’ve tried the method you proposed but I get a “Class ‘Layer’ has no property or method named ‘textindex'” warning.

I would love to know what I’m doing wrong… (Excuse my ignorance. I’m really a newby and this is my second -serious- approach to expressions)

(I’ve placed the expression in Animator 1- Fill color and deleted the Range selector)

But I thought on another “dirty” way to solve this. I’ve used a Fill filter on my code text layer and linked the other two layers (number and symbol) to it. Then I used code below. It’s working but as I said before it would be great to understand your method… Thanks again!

Gabriel
https://www.andar7.com

h = [1, 0, 0, 1];
d = [1, 0, 0, 1];
s = [0, 0, 0, 1];
c = [0, 0, 0, 1];
eval(thisComp.layer("LER_TXT").text.sourceText.value);


[Gabriel Netto]

I’m an expressions newby so…
Could someone help me with this question?

I’m working on a CARD project based on 4 variables (CS3). As you will see they are on an external txt and code is located on a text layer. I’m using “Hoyle Playing Cards” font symbols and that’s why they need to change: s = “q” (s for spades is q character, etc.)

My problem is that I need to alternate between red and black font colors. (spades and hearts have to be red, spades and clubs have to be black) but I just can’t figure out how to change this colors using expressions… I’ve tried to use fill but I don’t know how to set it’s color property via expressions.

Maybe a Color Control or a sampleImage() effect?

Any help is really appreciated!!!
Thanks in advance!

Gabriel Netto

//Here's my code:

s = "q";
c = "w";
d = "e";
h = "r";
eval(thisComp.layer("LER_TXT").text.sourceText.value);
myPath = "/MyHD/Prog1.txt";
try{
$.evalFile (myPath);
eval(thisComp.name)[1];
}catch (err){
"not found"
}