Amazing—it works! I’m trying to wrap my head around what you’ve done here, but it does do exactly what I wanted. Yes, the animation slider is controlled by keyframes.

Thanks, Filip!

I’m trying to modify a blinking cursor typewriter/console animation. It uses this expression to cause the cursor to blink at all times:

var s = effect(“Cursor Blink Speed”)(1);

var blink = Math.sin(Math.PI*time*s);

if(b == 1){
(blink >= 0) * 100;
}else{
0;
}

However, I’m trying to get the animation to begin *exactly when* my text layer has finished…

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That’s the ticket! Thank you!

I think I figured it out. I’m not using paragraph text, but I’ve been using soft returns (old habit). I just need to make sure anyone inputting text is using hard returns.

Thanks, guys!

No luck, unfortunately—it still counts the line breaks

Thanks, Yoan! I get an error, though. I had to change the first line to

var t = text.sourceText.value

But then I get an error saying “undefined value used in expression(could be an out of range array subscript?)”

Any idea what’s wrong?

Is it possible to identify the number of line breaks in a text box?

I have an expression in a range selector that attempts to identify the final character in a line of text using sourceText.length. However, if there are any line breaks in the text, these breaks are added to the total number of characters and the resulting number is higher than the…

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Hallelujah—it works! Thanks to you both! Andrei: you really saved the day.

I have a feeling I’ll be using this expression a lot in the future.

Thanks, Andrei! I got an error on line three of the expression that says “Expected: ;”

Any idea what’s causing that?

I have a text layer that’s auto-populated by a script. Everything works well except that the font I’m using has a large gap between the two numerals in the numbers 10 through 19. I usually kern this manually, but in this case that’s not possible.

If only the number is present in the line of text, I can simply use a tracking animator with an…

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