[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi Steve, so you would like to have the pink square contained in the white box no matter how big the white box gets?

I think you could use the clamp() method.

Here’s a quick tutorial on it: https://youtu.be/MITA3ygqvQY?t=314

Basically in your case you could use sourceRectAtTime() to establish the limits of the Y and X position of the pink square.

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[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi Dominic ! If your background box is a rectangular shape layer you could have a simple sourceRectAtTime() expression written in it.

x = thisComp.layer("my Text Layer").sourceRectAtTime().width;
y = thisComp.layer("my Text Layer").sourceRectAtTime().height;
[x, y]

If you want to have padding to the box you can a slider control and add the slider value to the x and y like this:

x = thisComp.layer("my Text Layer").sourceRectAtTime().width;
y = thisComp.layer("my Text Layer").sourceRectAtTime().height;
pad = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
[x+pad, y+pad]

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Dropdown menus are pretty cool.

Here’s a quick tutorial about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPTNtwSx9SE

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[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi Kyle,

If you want to have many instances for your characters’ hand, maybe you could use a dropdown menu and simply have a “combo” of opacity for each selection of the menu?

For instance, if the first menu of the dropdown is selected then left hand is 100% and right hand is 0%. And the best part is that dropdown menus are keyframable.

Does that make sense?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Sorry Dan took awhile to reply! Been very busy at work! I wanted to say a big thanks! Not only does this work but you also taught me a very important thing! Thanks again!

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Ah and by the way, when you mention JSON.parse or stringify, is it a way to call back an expression written in another layer?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hey Filip, been awhile! I finally got to test everything out in premiere. I gave the choice of color control for text, box and highlighted text and it works well ! It’s a bit slow (lots of calculations!) but it runs well as a mogrt !

I wanted to thank you cause I was really stuck with that one !

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Amazing! I wasn’t too sure of how to use match() but you just taught me how! Oh and you also showed me the existence of “test” hehe

Un gros merci Fabrice! ?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

I don’t know if this can help:

http://aescripts.com/textevo/

[Yoan Boisjoli]

You might want to check this discussion:

https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/text-highlight-expression-selector/

Text highlight (expression selector)