The After Effects stagger idiom
id = thisProperty.propertyGroup(2).propertyIndex;
failed with "not a callable function": the expression object model had
no propertyGroup() and property groups had no propertyIndex.
- Property.propertyGroup(countUp = 1) and PropertyGroup.propertyGroup()
return the group countUp levels up; from a top-level group they reach
the layer. A count below 1, not a number, or above the layer is an
error naming propertyGroup, never a crash.
- PropertyGroup.propertyIndex: the group's 1-based index among its
siblings (Child requests now carry it).
- One new host request (Ancestor) walks up from the node's full uid
path, so it also works for the property being evaluated.
- Tests for the stagger expression, effect parameters, reaching the
layer, other layers' properties and groups and out-of-range counts;
the fuzzer seeds and tokens include the new members.
layer.source was undefined in expressions, and a layer from a Layer Control had no transform.
Both now work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sampleImage renders the sampled layer through the evaluating renderer's footage source
(EvalCtx::footage), cached per thread and frame. File > Import reads .json/.csv/.tsv as data
footage kept in the project. expr.errors collects failing expressions for the error bar;
expr.languageMenu lists the categorised Expression Language menu. Marker keys expose
protectedRegion and cue points; colorDepth, timeToFeetAndFrames, comp.activeCamera.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TextDoc gains character style runs (font, size, colours, tracking, leading,
baseline shift, h/v scale, tsume, faux styles, caps, super/subscript, kerning
metrics/optical/manual, ligatures) and per-paragraph settings (justification
with last-line modes, indents, space before/after, direction, composer,
hanging punctuation), serde-compatible with single-style documents. Layout
handles mixed runs on a line (shared baseline, largest leading), every-line
composer, editing geometry (carets, hit testing, selection quads) and basic
vertical type. Renderer colours per run. Expressions get the sourceText style
API (style, getStyleAt, createStyle, setters with character ranges).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gert Pellin