Comments on: rd: Script Launcher

By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:57:07 +0000

hi martin… if you’re using the script as a dockable panel (i.e., you placed it in the ScriptUI Panels subfolder, and launched the script from the Window menu), the background color for the script window is the same as for other panels, and you can adjust that in AE’s preferences. if you launch the script from the File > Scripts menu, it’ll take on the OS-level (in CS4 or earlier) or a light gray (CS5) background that cannot be adjusted.

By: martin

martin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:30:13 +0000

BG color is kind of dark on CS5
Thanks for helping so much

By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:06:24 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Nathan!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:28:23 +0000

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

By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:40:37 +0000

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.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:21:37 +0000

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!

By: Jeff Almasol

Jeff Almasol — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:41:16 +0000

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

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:03:43 +0000

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