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Common object properties, Window, Panel, StaticText, EditText, Button, Checkbox, RadioButton

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Adobe After Effects Help Using Help Creating User Interface Elements Back 214 find (type, title) return value: Object Finds an existing window already created by a script. title is the title of the window and type is modal dialog. This value is a hint in case more than one window has the same title; if the type is unimportant, null or an empty string can be passed. If the window was found, the corresponding JavaScript Window object is generated and returned; if the window cannot be determined, the return value is null. prompt (prompt [, default]) Displays a modal dialog that returns the user's text input. When the dialog opens, it displays the given prompt text and its text edit field is initialized with any specified default text. When the user clicks OK to dismiss the dialog, it returns the text the user entered. If the user clicks the Cancel button in this dialog, this method's result is the value null. Common object properties The following table shows the common properties defined for each element type. Window Panel StaticText EditText Button Checkbox RadioButton Scrollbar Slider active x x x x x x x bounds x x x x x x x x x children x x x x x x x x x enabled x x x x x x x x x jumpdelta x justify x x x x x x x maxvalue x x minvalue x x parent x x x x x x x x x stepdelta x text x x x x x x x textselection x type x x x x x x x x x value x x x x visible x x x x x x x x x Using Help Back 214

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find (type, title)
return value:
Object
Finds an existing window already created by a script.
title
is the title of the window and type is modal dialog.
This value is a hint in case more than one window has the same title; if the type is unimportant, null or an
empty string can be passed. If the window was found, the corresponding JavaScript
Window
object is
generated and returned; if the window cannot be determined, the return value is
null
.
prompt (prompt [, default])
Displays a modal dialog that returns the user’s text input. When the dialog opens, it displays the given
prompt
text and its text edit field is initialized with any specified
default
text. When the user clicks OK to dismiss the
dialog, it returns the text the user entered. If the user clicks the Cancel button in this dialog, this method’s
result is the value
null
.
Common object properties
The following table shows the common properties defined for each element type.
Window
Panel
StaticText
EditText
Button
Checkbox
RadioButton
Scrollbar
Slider
active
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
bounds
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
children
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
enabled
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
jumpdelta
x
justify
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
maxvalue
x
x
minvalue
x
x
parent
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
stepdelta
x
text
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
textselection
x
type
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
value
x
x
x
x
visible
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x