[Matt Volp]

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[Matt Volp]

If you’re after the button to return the button’s name, try this:

button.onClick = function() {
alert(this.name);
}

[Matt Volp]

A quick and dirty workaround would be to iterate back through your selected properties after applying the initial loop expression and identify those which have their expression turned off and apply the path loop expression to just those.

[Matt Volp]

Are you sure you meant to post inside the After Effects Expressions forum?

[Matt Volp]

I’m not sure on your use case, but say if you wanted to have a null object locked to the position of Rectangle 1 inside of Shape Layer 1, you could put this expression on the position of the null:

toWorld(thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 1").content("Rectangle 1").transform.position)

‘toWorld()’ converts layer space to world/comp space.

[Matt Volp]

No. You’d need to look into scripting for that sort of functionality!

[Matt Volp]

They are returning undefined because you haven’t defined them with

var

[Matt Volp]

You could use

str.charAt(0)

where the argument, in this case, ‘0’, is the character of the string you want to look at. So something like this:

str = text.sourceText;
firstLetter = str.charAt(0);
if (firstLetter ===  "A") {
	[0,100]
} else if (firstLetter ===  "B") {    
	[0,200]
}

If you wanted to do it programmatically, perhaps something like this would work:

str = text.sourceText;
firstLetter = str.charAt(0);
letters = ["A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H"];
for (i = 0; i < letters.length; i++) {
	if (firstLetter === letters[i]) {
		y = (i+1) * 100;
		break;
	}
}
[0,y];

[Matt Volp]

Instead of using

==

you’ll need to use

>= or <=

[Matt Volp]

Yeah, the issue here is that you also need to update the bezier handles as you make the circle bigger. You have two options.

1. Redo your process with this script instead: https://lesterbanks.com/2017/10/create-nulls-paths-extended-features/ and make sure ‘handle controls’ is checked. Then you’ll also need to animate the scale of each of the 4 nulls too, to keep the circle shape.

2. Don’t convert the circle to bezier path and use more complex maths to get what you want.