Accidentally double posted.

@filipvandueren

Thanks a lot for your amazing work on this! I’m also in need of a similar solution.

I need to store the data as a value in a slider. However, using your method, I’m having some issues. It all works fine as long as it’s stored as a text string, but trying to parse it into a value seems to break the expression and just gives me a…

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Cool, thank you very much!

Thank you for the quick reply!

That’s a good workaround. Do you have any idea about whether what I asked about initially is simply impossible within the limitations of JS?

That is, if there’s any way to parse a non-numerical string into a boolean value? Would be good to know for future reference.

Hello,

I’m using a source text property to control a boolean expression (in this case, to set auto leading on a text layer). I know I can just use 0/1 in my source text, but I would like to be able to use true/false instead.

Here’s what I have:

aL = thisComp.layer("orderData").text.sourceText.split(",")[3];
GEN = style.setAutoLeading(aL);

The string…

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Thanks for your reply. Ideally, I need to figure out a way to get around that limitation. I have a setup which feeds data into AE from a google sheet, and sometimes that data will mix different languages in the same sentence, like Japanese and English. The easiest solution would of course be to use a font that supports multiple languages, but I’m…

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Hello,

I have a script for InDesign that will check a text layer for characters which are not supported by the current font (i.e. a language which uses other characters), and replace them with a different font according to a set parameter. Only affecting individual characters in that text layer.

Now, I’m trying to create something similar in AE,…

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Yep, the solution was of course too simple for me to figure out on my own. Thanks a lot!

Hello!

I have a dropdown menu that is supposed to react to data in a text layer. I can’t get it to work using a simple parseInt, and from what I can gather, that only works with numerical values(?).

Is there some other way to do this? Here is my expression so far:

var y = text.sourceText;
var x = parseInt(y);
if (x == “JP_ja”) {
2;
} else {
1;
}

Thanks…

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I’ve tried adding a function to the script, but this is a bit above my level so I just wanted to ask for a little more help.

I would like the script to check for precomps with a specific name and then resize that comp to the same size as the main comp. So, let’s say, if the main comp contains a precomp named “one” and/or “two”, resize them. If they…

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Apologies for the late reply.

This solution was much more elegant than the one I came up with at first, and seems to be working perfectly together with my positioning expressions. Thank you too!

Wow, this was exactly what I was looking for, and I thought it would be much more complicated. Thank you so much!

While I have you, another possibly more difficult obstacle: would it be possible to create a solution for scaling font size with say comp width?

Hello,

I’m trying to create a script that will resize my comp according to a value retrieved from an expression within the comp. First of all, is this even at all possible? If so, I would love some assistance on how this would be done, or pointers to any relevant resources.

Many thanks in advance!