rd: Script Launcher
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This script displays a palette of the installed scripts in the selected Scripts folder (and subfolders). Only scripts with .js, .jsx, and .jsxbin extensions are displayed. Double-click a script to launch it. Scripts located in subfolders whose names are enclosed in parentheses are ignored. You can change the Scripts folder at any time, and refresh the scripts list if the contents of the folder have changed. The selected scripts folder is stored as a setting, so you don’t have to reselect it every time you reopen this palette.
Note: The palette cannot detect any errors in the scripts that you run from it. It’s just a quick way of launching scripts without restarting AE or using ExtendScript Toolkit (i.e., switching away from AE).
If a PNG file of a similar name and same folder as the script file (but with a .png file name extension) exists, it will appear next to the script name in the list.
Enhancements requested by Russ Maehl.
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This is a nice alternative to LaunchPad. I would love to use it, however i find that with some scripts it does not run. They run fine from LaunchPad but with your Launcher, they just fail to run…
For example, Launcher fails to run the following scripts:
PT Shift Layers 2.0
PT Auto Express 1.0
makePanorama 1.0
In fact, looking at these it would seem that it is the Paul Tuersley scripts which seem to be failing.
Any Idea why?
Many thanks for all you efforts,
Nath
hey nathan,
not sure why it happens, but i have a test version that uses a different way of launching scripts. i’ll e-mail you with a copy. let me know if this fixes the problem for you.
thanks,
:jeff
Noticed a new bug… maybe
with the new Chameleon script
- I get an error “Logo file is missing” in chameleon when launching with launchpad.
If I launch the same script (exact same location) through AE’s “Run script file…” I do not encounter this problem.
Is this a problem with Chameleon or with Launcher?
Thanks Jeff
PS. Your Launcher script has saved me probably a couple of hours during production already!
IT IS FANTASTIC!
Hi Nathan,
I think the Chameleon script is assuming a specific location for its logo file and other PNG files (i.e., in same folder as the script). This is fine if running the script directly, but when launched from another script (which might be in a different folder), the “current folder” is the launcher script, not the script that contains the associated PNG files. Should be easy for Mathias to fix. I’ll e-mail him.
Thanks for letting me know.
Cheers Jeff,
You guys really are the true heroes of the AE community. I wish people wouldn’t be so frightened of scripts… seems like AE is so wasted without a good collection of scripts in the tool-belt! I have projects which would have been (nearly) IMPOSSIBLE without scripts that you guys wrote.
Once again, massive thanks!
Nathan
Thanks for the kind words, Nathan!