[Bug] Launcher Path panel in AE 2021 does not close after pressing OK

[DanieleRia]

What happened?
In After Effect 2021 (CC 18), the panel where you feed the exe file does not close after pressing OK.

To Reproduce

1. From After Effects, open AErenderer Launcher Script
2. Press the Settings tab
3. Press the "..." button
4. navigate to the file called "AErender Launcher BETA.exe" and
5. Press OK - but nothing happens

...
4. Error Appears
Every time

Expected behavior
When I feed the exe file, the file should be accepted

Screenshots
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Required information:
Software

• AErender Launcher version: v0.8.9-beta
• Adobe After Effects version: 18.2.0.37
• OS: Windows 10

Hardware

• CPU: Intel Core i7-8850H
• GPU: Nvidia Quadro P3200
• RAM: DDR4 32 GB 2400MHz

Additional context
The panel works well in AE 2020

[LilyStilson]

Have you enabled Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network in After Effects' settings?
https://github.com/LilyStilson/AErender-Launcher-Script/blob/master/README.md

If it's enabled, then can I ask you to provide me some more details in AErender Launcher's Discord server?

Also, this is an issue with AErender Launcher Script, not with AErender Launcher and it should been reported in a specific repository.

[DanieleRia]

Hello Alice Firstly, let me say I love this little tool, I am experimenting a lot, but i found it very promising Please accept my apologies, I was under the impression the preferences were inherited from my previous versions of AE, but in this case, Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network was not on - and turning it on made the trick! Far from telling you how to do your job, I would like to suggest adding this check in your script: app.preferences.getPrefAsLong("Main Pref Section", "Pref_SCRIPTING_FILE_NETWORK_SECURITY") I am a developer myself (this is my page on aescripts.com <https://aescripts.com/authors/a-b/braindot-design/>) and I found that this check saves me a lot of Support Tickets While we are here, I would like to flash one more thing: the "Help" section is actually not displaying on my machine - any suggestions? And finally, I have installed ffmpeg inside the AErender Launcher directory - see pic below, but on the About page I can still read "FFMPEG not Found! Feature will be disabled" [image: image.png] [image: image.png] Any more info about using AErendered Launcher with FFMPEG would be very much appreciated Many thanks for your hard work with this tool Best regards Dani

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On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 16:45, Alice ***@***.***> wrote: Have you enabled Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network in After Effects' settings? https://github.com/LilyStilson/AErender-Launcher-Script/blob/master/README.md If it's enabled, then can I ask you to provide me some more details in *AErender Launcher*'s Discord server <https://discord.gg/Bh2MkxG>? Also, this is an issue with *AErender Launcher Script*, not with *AErender Launcher* and it should been reported in a specific repository <https://github.com/LilyStilson/AErender-Launcher-Script>. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#12 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHWVKJNPYYRQORUX5XSCMI3TT5NBZANCNFSM47B2MJTA> .

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[LilyStilson]

Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely add this to Script :)

Help section not working currently due to the fact that I haven't written any of it yet and after the future Launcher's version v0.9.0-beta, the workflow will significantly change and the previous help files would be obsolete, so now I'm working on this update, after which I will dedicate all my time to make a proper documentation.

About FFMPEG... Launcher can only detect if there is a folder with name that contains "ffmpeg" and checks if in /ffmpeg/bin exists any FFMPEG executables. But that's it, currently I just postponed all the FFMPEG implementation until v0.9.0-beta. Only FFMPEG detection is working currently.
I know it's a bit confusing, but that's gonna be changed soon :)

PS. Your pictures are broken