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We have a sports show with a 2 minute countdown clock for each topic discussed.

hen we we this on our designer it worked as we were taught. The clock waited for a keystroke to start counting down and we could stop it and reset it with different keys.

After publishing it to our projrct job and airing via our blue box controller the clock counts down immediately when we take it to air. This works ok for us, but we don't understand why it doesn't work with the control we have on our designer, similar to my previous post about a credit crawl not working through our blue box as it does on our designer.

Any help???

Hi Mark,

I can only assume this is vecause you're not using the Xpression GUI.

When you create this scene in the Designer and you put a "Wait for keystroke". It's actually expecting you to put it online from within an Xpression user interface because it puts a little flag in that scene to tell the user interface to first display a popup asking you to press on the spacebar to start the crawl. So this is something dedicated to the Xpression Studio or maybe also Prime user interfaces.

When you are using this project on a Bluebox, which is meant to be controlled in another way then the Xpression userinterface, this request for a keystroke is omitted.

So when you put the scene online through your controller, it won't ask for a keystroke first.

I assume you're using a custom built interface which is interacting with the Xpression API?

In that case the only way to solve this is to change your controller. So you can put the scene online and then you have to ask for another click to start the crawl or animation.

Best regards,

Kenneth

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