Ahhhh. That's my problem.
The text is just a list of names.
I'll use a script instead to populate the text layers.
Thanks.
Phil
What is in your text file?
It has to be formatted as a valid JavaScript text string.
If it’s more than one line, it would be like this:
"Line 1 text\r" +
"Line 2 text\r";
Dan
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AE] Source Text from external file
Thanks
guys.
Dan, I ge the "not found" when using your method. I changed the path to the
location of my file.
myPath = "~/Desktop/names.txt";
try{
$.evalFile (myPath);
}catch (err){
"not found"
}
David, I was looking at you
examples earlier and they are looking to modify the layer based on the comp name
found in the text doc.
I really just want to dump
the contents into my text layer.
Phil
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On Feb 8, 2014, at 3:41 PM, David Torno wrote:
I did a video tutorial on this
awhile back as well.
I'm sure I have done this in the past and I know I can do it with a
script no problem but i would rather it be an expression.
There are plenty of examples on the web but they all seem to be
populating comps using an eval(comp.name) piece of code.
I just want to have an expression on the source text of a layer that
will read the file and put it into that layer.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Phil
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