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Good evening,

I have a series of miniboards and associated "pops" messages that are built to run from channel 1 (framebuffer 1), but some of my clients need these to run from the channel 2. Changing the framebuffer assignment in sequence is the easy part - but I have a script in the pops that needs to set the channel assignment as shown below. I've tried to set it with a widget and other means, but so far have had no success. I have a solution that will work for this but it's far from elegant. If anybody has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. And of you need a clarification of what I'm trying to do, please let me know.

The script below plays off the title header in the miniboard message while the "pop" animates on in a different layer.

Thanks,

Brian

dim channel as xpOutputFrameBuffer

dim template as xpScene

dim titleOff as xpAnimController

dim takeItem as xpBaseTakeItem

engine.GetOutputFrameBuffer(0,channel)

channel.GetSceneOnLayer(2, template)

template.GetAnimControllerByName("titleAnim", titleOff)

titleOff.position = 20

titleoff.PlayRange(20,0)

The script can ask the scene what framebuffer and layer it is currently on.

Self.GetOnline(framebuffer, layer) where both parameters are integers.

Then you could do: engine.getoutputframebuffer(framebuffer, channel)

#XPression

That was a nudge in the right direction - though the answer came in part from elsewhere in the forum...here's the revised script:

dim channel,framebuffer as integer

dim output as xpOutputFrameBuffer

dim template as xpScene

dim titleOff as xpAnimController

scene.GetOnline(framebuffer,channel)

engine.GetOutputFrameBuffer(framebuffer,output)

output.GetSceneOnLayer(2, template)

template.GetAnimControllerByName("titleAnim", titleOff)

titleOff.position = 20

titleoff.PlayRange(20,0)



Now the pops should be following the miniboard... thanks Brian!

#XPression

Yes, that looks like what I was trying to get across.. Only one small mistake (but it won't affect your script at all)..

It should be like this:

`

dim framebuffer,layer as integer

scene.GetOnline(framebuffer,layer)

`

because the second parameter from GetOnline is a layer, not a channel..

#XPression