[James Ronan]

Try changing the last line [s,s] to this:

[value[0],s]

[James Ronan]

This sounded quite like an interesting task so thought I’d give it ago. Bit rough, and haven’t done a lot of testing but it should replace every instance of that word, project wide.

Make sure the value for the oldWord variable has ‘/’ and ‘/g’ before and after it so that it doesn’t only change the first instance of the word per expression.

var oldWord = /old/g;
var newWord = "new";

app.beginUndoGroup("Expression Swap");

for (var a = 1; a <= app.project.numItems; a++) {
if (app.project.item(a) instanceof CompItem) {

for (var b = 1; b <= app.project.item(a).layers.length; b++) {
scanPropGroupProperties(app.project.item(a).layer(b));

} // end of layer loop
} // end of check if comp item
} // end of comp loop

app.endUndoGroup();

function scanPropGroupProperties(propGroup) {
var c, prop;

// Iterate over the specified property group's properties
for (c = 1; c <= propGroup.numProperties; c++) {
prop = propGroup.property(c);
if (prop.propertyType === PropertyType.PROPERTY) // Found a property
{

expressionFix(prop);

} else if ((prop.propertyType === PropertyType.INDEXED_GROUP) || (prop.propertyType === PropertyType.NAMED_GROUP)) {
// Found an indexed or named group, so check its nested properties
scanPropGroupProperties(prop);
}
}
}

function expressionFix(prop) {
if (prop.canSetExpression === true) {
if (prop.expressionEnabled === true) {

var curExp = prop.expression;
curExp = curExp.replace(oldWord, newWord);
prop.expression = curExp // updates old expression with new words
}
}
}

I used the recursive property function from redefinery to loop through the properties: https://www.redefinery.com/ae/fundamentals/properties/

[James Ronan]

Try using the .moveBefore() method.

var myLayers, myComp;
myComp = app.project.activeItem;
myLayers = myComp.selectedLayers; // array of selected layers

var newSolid = app.project.activeItem.layers.addSolid([0, 1, 0], myLayers[0].name + " - Solid", myComp.width, myComp.height, myComp.pixelAspect, myComp.duration);
newSolid.label = 9;

newSolid.moveBefore(myLayers[0]); // moves new Solid before first selected Layer

[James Ronan]

Try: pixel_size.selection.text === “1px”

Like this:

win=new Window("palette","The Fluent Shadow",undefined,{resizeable:true,independent:false,minimizeButton:false,maximizeButton:false,resizeable:false,});
but_1=win.add("button",[20,60,120,80],"Fluent Shadow");
but_1.helpTip="Select a layer";
pixel_size=win.add("dropdownlist",[20,20,120,42] ,["1px","2px","3px","4px","6px","8px","9px","12px","16px","24px","32px","48px","64px","80px","96px",""]);
pixel_size.selection = 0;
pixel_size.helpTip="Choose your Shadow size";
win.center();
win.show();

but_1.onClick = function(){

if(pixel_size.selection.text === "1px"){
alert("1px");
}

if(pixel_size.selection.text === "2px"){
alert("2px");
}

if(pixel_size.selection.text ==="3px"){
alert("3px");
}

}

[James Ronan]

You would need a recursive function to loop through each layers properties and groups etc.

It’s a bit rough, but try this:

// Selected Layers
var myLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;

//Loop through selected layers
for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++) { myLayer = myLayers[i]; //Check if layer Shape Layer if (myLayer instanceof ShapeLayer) { //Find the contents var myContents = myLayer.property("Contents"); // Apply Function to Shapes contents propertySearch(myContents); } // End of If statement } // End of for loop. function propertySearch(a) { //Loop through first set of properties for (var j = 1; j <= a.numProperties; j++) { // Loop through second set to find previous property group for (var k = 1; k <= a.property(j).numProperties; k++) { // Check its a shape if (a.property(j).property(k) == a.property(j).property("ADBE Vector Shape")) { a.property(j).property(k).addKey(1); // add key } // End of Check // Repeat function. Recursively propertySearch(a.property(j).property(k)); } // End of K loop } // end of J for loop } // End of Function.

[James Ronan]

I’m not entirely sure what your trying to do… But here is an example of static text changing values when a slider is moved.

var w = new Window ("dialog", "test",undefined,{}); // create window

var slider = w.add("Slider",undefined); // create slider
slider.value = 50; // set intital value as 50

var staticText = w.add("StaticText",undefined,"50"); //Create static text

slider.onChanging = function() { //create onchanging event for the slider that updates the staticText everytime there is a change
var percentage = slider.value;
staticText.text = percentage.toString();
}

w.show(); // show window