I show how to use the ESTK debugger in the first classes of this Beginner Scripting course:

https://www.fxphd.com/details/516/

and more in class 7 of this Advanced Scripting for Ae

https://www.fxphd.com/details/539/

For code development I also prefer Atom instead of ESTK (and show in the training how to configure Atom for that task).

Cheers,

Mathias

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On 20 Jan 2018, at 01:59, David Torno <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Ya, my main pipeline is to have two dummy placeholder scripts, one in Scripts and one in ScripUI Panels. Each named something like "_FloatingTEST", and "_DockableTEST". I open one or both depending on what I'm making and launch AE. This way I can write my code in ESTK or SublimeText sometimes, and as I need to test I copy paste to one of those scripts. I then launch script in AE. This allows me to make changes on the fly and just relaunch the script without relaunching AE. It's a few extra steps, but hardly impacts my flow as I'm so use to it.

David Torno

818.391.6060

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On Jan 19, 2018, at 3:53 PM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Yeah, that’s what I’ve always done too.  Glad it’s not just me.  And the “Open script editor” has never worked for me, either...

On 20 Jan 2018, at 5:57 am, David Torno <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

I haven't seen any info on ESTK features. It's not very well supported.

I never use any of those features. I've gotten in the habit of using alert() and $.writeln() for temp feedback in ESTK.

David Torno

818.391.6060

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https://vimeo.com/davidtorno (work samples & breakdowns)

https://gumroad.com/davidtorno

http://provideocoalition.com/dtorno (tutorials)

"The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh"

-Charles Field

On Jan 19, 2018, at 2:55 AM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Hi all,

I’ve been using the ExtendScript Toolkit for writing After Effects scripts (and even complex expressions) but I don’t seem to be using many of its features.  
I’ve had a look around online and there’s not a lot of documentation specific to After Effects.  There are features listed in the documentation that I can’t get to work, such as showing the values of variables at specific times, and so on.

Are there any tutorials/ documents out there that specifically demonstrate the best way to use the ESTK with After Effects?

-Chris
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