//alt-click the stopwatch of Mask Path under Mask1 of a text

//paste this code in that expression field

//animate the Anchorpoint to wipe text in and out, Vertcal or Horizontal

a = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime();

x = thisLayer.transform.position[0];

y = thisLayer.transform.position[1];

h = a.height;

w = a.width;

t = a.top;

l =…

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Thanks. You’re welcome. If you have any script requests, feel free to contact me.

Paste the code onto the position expression of a circle you made.

Use the rotation of the circle to roll the circle onto the screen.

// The radius is half the bounding box size

r = (thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width)/2;

// Scale compensation
s = thisLayer.transform.scale[0];
compensation = (s-100)*.01;

// compensated radius

cr = r + compensation * r;

//…

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I found the culprit: a text layer can’t examine its own size and publish that with its source text property.
This would be something of a recursive problem.
When I let the text layer take another layer its size, it could publish that.

This way I found out my problem sat in another nice nasty: the update of the if-then structure.

If-then-else is now a must.

Stupid expression problems can cause hours in delay.
I have no means of reading variables other than putting them into a source text with an expression.

These here work fine as a source text expression:

thisLayer.name

thisLayer.position or thisLayer.position[0] if you wanna go specific.

Why doesn’t this…

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