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Hello there

scripts are not working the way I assumed with text delivered to XPression from Rascular's Automation Gateway (RAG). I've tried several methods to make it work, but it seems to me that the text from RAG is passed on to XPression differently from how it's usually done within XPression.

What I'm trying to do:

Scene 2401 (layer 9 on framebuffer 1) has a textobject "Box0" which receives the text from RAG. It also has a script that triggers another scene in the Sequencer (scene 2404). Until here it is working fine.

Scene 2404 (layer 10 on framebuffer 1) has the following script on the Scene Layer:

dim box0 as xptextobject

dim wb as xpscene

dim text1 as xptextobject

engine.getscenebyname("2401",wb)

wb.getobjectbyname("Box0", box0)

self.getobjectbyname("TEXT",text1)

text1.text = box0.text

dim titel as xptextobject

dim utitel as xptextobject

dim UTbgd as xpbaseobject

dim stringsplitter as string

self.getobjectbyname("TITEL", titel)

self.getobjectbyname("UTITEL", utitel)

self.getobjectbyname("TXT-BGD2", UTbgd)

stringsplitter = "*"

If text1.text.Contains(stringsplitter) Then

titel.text = text1.text.Substring(0,text1.text.IndexOf(stringsplitter)).Trim()

utitel.text = Right(text1.text, text1.text.length-1-text1.text.IndexOf(stringsplitter))

utitel.visible = true

UTbgd.visible = true

else

titel.text = text1.text

utitel.visible = false

UTbgd.visible = false

End If

Engine.ClearFrameBufferLayer(0,9)

When triggering scene 2401 with the Box0 text published in the Sequencer, it passes on the text to 2404 the right way. But when done through RAG it's not working. Is there another solution to this problem?

To do that, replace in your code your .getscenebyname with a getoutputframebuffer, then .getsceneonlayer 9.

It doesn't work because the scene online on layer 9 with RAG is probably a copy of your template 2401.

#XPression

Hi Vincent

thank you for the fast reply. Unfortunatly, I'm not getting it to work. The start of the script looks like this now:

dim box0 as xptextobject

dim wb as xpscene

dim text1 as xptextobject

dim fb as xpoutputframebuffer

engine.getoutputframbuffer(0, fb)

fb.getsceneonlayer(9, wb)

wb.getobjectbyname("Box0", box0)

self.getobjectbyname("TEXT",text1)

text1.text = box0.text

...

Nothing happens and the script isn't running to the end so it must be syntax error. But I just can't figure out what is wrong. Could you please help me out?

#XPression

You missed a "e" in getoutpuframebuffer...

#XPression

Thanks, now it works. Strange it did compile without errors...

#XPression

Dear Vincent

The script works within XPression, but we just tested it with RAG and it still doesn't pass along the text, even with this new method. Last week I talked to Roddy from Rascular and he sent me the code that RAG executes when setting the text in XPression:

if (frameBuf.GetSceneOnLayer(l, &scene)) // fetch the scene

{

if (scene.ObjectCount >= box) // check box number is in range

{

IxpBaseObjectDisp base;

UTF8String name = "Box" + IntToStr(box);

if (scene.GetObjectByName(COM_STR(name), &base) || // get by 'name', else by index.

scene.GetObject(box, &base))

{

IxpTextObjectDisp t;

base->QueryInterface(&t);

if (t)

t.set_TextWithTags(COM_STR(layer.textBoxes[Box]));

}

}

I hope there is a solution to this matter.

#XPression

I'm not clear on where this script is located.. Is it in an OnSetText for an object, or OnOnline, etc?

#XPression

Hi Brian, do you mean the script from Rascular or mine? I can only answer where my script is located: OnOnline.

#XPression

I think what is happening is that Rascular probably updates the Text after the scene is already online.. Therefore your OnOnline script has already been run before rascular updates the text in the scene.. We can see this by the code you posted from Rascular where they call GetSceneOnLayer followed by the SetTextWithTags call. This means the scene is already online (or else the GetSceneOnLayer would not return anything).

You might need to re-think your approach, and maybe change the scripting to use OnSetText instead, so that anytime the text in the RAG scene is updated it could push the info to your other scene.

#XPression

Now I tried two different approaches:

1st: Script Event in Scene Director on second frame. Did work within XPression, but not with RAG.

2nd: I split up the script on the two textobjects the following way (OnSetText):

Script on TITEL:

dim wb as xpscene

dim text1 as xptextobject

dim fb as xpoutputframebuffer

dim titel as xptextobject

dim utitel as xptextobject

dim UTbgd as xpbaseobject

dim stringsplitter as string

engine.getoutputframebuffer(0, fb)

fb.getsceneonlayer(9, wb)

wb.getobjectbyname("Box0", text1)

stringsplitter = "*"

If text1.text.Contains(stringsplitter) Then

text = text1.text.Substring(0,text1.text.IndexOf(stringsplitter)).Trim()

else

text = text1.text

End If

Script on UTITEL (Subtitle):

dim wb as xpscene

dim text1 as xptextobject

dim fb as xpoutputframebuffer

dim UTbgd as xpbaseobject

dim stringsplitter as string

engine.getoutputframebuffer(0, fb)

fb.getsceneonlayer(9, wb)

wb.getobjectbyname("Box0", text1)

scene.getobjectbyname("TXT-BGD2", UTbgd)

stringsplitter = "*"

If text1.text.Contains(stringsplitter) Then

self.text = Right(text1.text, text1.text.length-1-text1.text.IndexOf(stringsplitter))

self.visible = true

UTbgd.visible = true

else

self.visible = false

UTbgd.visible = false

End If

In this case, it's neither workin in XPression nor with RAG. Is there another approach?

#XPression

There might be more problems than this, but you should not be calling `self.text = "something"` when inside an OnSetText script. Instead you should just write `text = "something"`.. Otherwise as soon as the OnSetText script finishes it will just overwrite what you set. The OnSetText script allows you to modify the `Text` paramater passed into the script and will set that upon exiting.. If you want to modify it yourself you need to set `handled=true`.

#XPression

OK, now I've got it to work with OnSetText (I didn't know that the textobject had to be published to work with scripts). But it still only works within XPression and won't set the text from RAG. I don't understand how to use handled=true. Here are the two scripts on the two textobjects:

TITEL

dim wb as xpscene

dim text1 as xptextobject

dim fb as xpoutputframebuffer

dim stringsplitter as string

engine.getoutputframebuffer(0, fb)

fb.getsceneonlayer(9, wb)

wb.getobjectbyname("Box0", text1)

stringsplitter = "*"

If text1.text.Contains(stringsplitter) Then

text = text1.text.Substring(0,text1.text.IndexOf(stringsplitter)).Trim()

else

text = text1.text

End If

UTITEL:

dim wb as xpscene

dim text1 as xptextobject

dim fb as xpoutputframebuffer

dim UTbgd as xpbaseobject

dim stringsplitter as string

engine.getoutputframebuffer(0, fb)

fb.getsceneonlayer(9, wb)

wb.getobjectbyname("Box0", text1)

scene.getobjectbyname("TXT-BGD2", UTbgd)

stringsplitter = "*"

If text1.text.Contains(stringsplitter) Then

text = Right(text1.text, text1.text.length-1-text1.text.IndexOf(stringsplitter))

self.visible = true

UTbgd.visible = true

else

self.visible = false

UTbgd.visible = false

End If

#XPression

Is this issue not to solve?

#XPression

The text object does not need to be published for OnSetText to work. Anytime the text object has it's text changed, either from Datalinq or from an API appliction the OnSetText script will run.

I think you will need to provide a link to the project. It is still not clear to me what you are trying to do. I see both scripts are looking at a Scene on Layer 9. Are either of these two scenes on layer 9, or there is a third scene on layer 9 which you are trying to pull data from?

#XPression

I sent you the Project in an Email. Interestingly, in my project the scripts only work when the texts are published. I just tested it again...

#XPression

Thanks we will take a look.

To clarify, the OnSetText script will only run when the text is changed, i.e. from datalinq, API, or widgets. I suspect you are simply setting the scene online from the sequencer and not actually changing the text in any way. In that case as you describe it will only run when the text is published because the text gets changed to the value of the published data you put into the sequencer as soon as you take it to air. If you link the text to a TextListWidget and unpublish it, you should see the script run anytime you change the widget for example.

#XPression