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I am working for a company that concentrates on stock prices. I need to use datalinq to show a red quad for below opening price, a green quad for above opening price or a black quad for equal to opening price. Would I use scripting or visual logic for this? I read through previous forums but can't quite find what I'm looking for. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

You can definitly use VL for this. How do you get your data? Via XML? Is there a field where the opening price stays static? That would make this easier.

Edit: Off the top of my head, look for posts regarding basketball shot clocks, where when the timer goes below a certain digit, the color of the quad changes. Then replace the specific digit with the opening stock quote.
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We get our data via RSS feed. And upon further research, we would want to use the closing price from the previous day (and that would be static).
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@Stashmark I created a quick demo for you. I basically made two quads and two text boxes. Compare against the close quote and turn the visibility of the quads on or off.

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This works great! Thank you MiaSanMiaUSA!
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A follow up on this scene... I now want to make a third text field change colors instead of quads. I need to add in a white text if the values are even. Do I need three separate text fields (green, red and white visibility) or can I just use the materials Font option in visual logic?

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You can use the Font materials option in visual logic, but you'll have to use an input selector block to decide which material gets used.
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Any ideas in visual logic about the text = white for equal values? I have my visual logic set up for greater than = green and not = red. I just can't figure out how to make text white when values are equal.
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Please see photo for VL. If you want to take it further you'll see I answered something very similar here.
https://discussions.rossvideo.com/forum/default-forum-gc1/xpression-cg-and-graphics-system-gc12/13761-default-material-color-with-coding

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This works great! Thank you everyone for your help!
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