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Saturday, July 05, 2008

steve douglas said...: Hi Mr. Geduld,
Sorry to bother you but all email addresses seem to bounce. Hope this gets to you.
I am a writer and reviewer for the kenstone.net and lafcpug.org websites and I recently received, for review, your new book on Expressions. So far, I am enjoying the book though I can't understand why they didn't include a media disc for it rather than going to the Focal Press website. You have a great writing style. I must admit I am not used to using expressions so it has been a learning experience for me as well. I have run into a problem in Chap 2, pg. 52. No matter how many times I follow your directions, once I type in the var mousePosition = as an expression for the cat, a message window comes up saying
AE Warning: does not have a value expression disabled
error occurred at line 1.
comp1
layer: 1 ('cat')
property: position

The equals sign next to the triangle in the expressions under the cat's position is also disabled with the diagonal bar through it. If I undo the diagonal, the error message comes up again.
Can you explain what is going on. I've closed and reopened the project, just stumped as to why I cannot follow your directions at this point without the error.
Hope to hear from you,
Steve Douglas
steve-sharksdelight@cox.net
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