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Hey all,

So I'm having a little trouble due to the lack of documentation about scripting. Admittedly, I don't know much about scripting of any kind.

I'm basically trying to have a tug-of-war bar animate in with Datalinked values, and animate as the values are live-updated.
I've created two scene directors, and three text objects for each field: an old, a new, and a display value. I've cobbled together a pretty barebones script to attempt to accomplish my goal, and it seems to compile fine, but doesn't work when I go live with the graphic. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Dim ctrl as xpAnimController

scene.getAnimControllerByName("AnimController2", ctrl)

Dim aold as xpTextObject
Dim bold as xpTextObject
Dim cold as xpTextObject
Dim dold as xpTextObject
Dim eold as xpTextObject

Dim anew as xpTextObject
Dim bnew as xpTextObject
Dim cnew as xpTextObject
Dim dnew as xpTextObject
Dim enew as xpTextObject

Dim ValueQuad1 as xpBaseObject
Dim ValueQuad2 as xpBaseObject
Dim ValueQuad3 as xpBaseObject
Dim ValueQuad4 as xpBaseObject
Dim ValueQuad5 as xpBaseObject

ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad1, 0, aold.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad2, 0, bold.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad3, 0, cold.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad4, 0, dold.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad5, 0, eold.text, 100, 100)

ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad1, 20, anew.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad2, 20, bnew.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad3, 20, cnew.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad4, 20, dnew.text, 100, 100)
ctrl.setKeyFramePosition(ValueQuad5, 20, enew.text, 100, 100)

I can't help you much with the scripting issue itself, but I can address the documentation issue. In the install folder of XPression there is a pdf SDK document which is basically a complete guide to XPression scripting, provided you understand the underlying concepts of scripting itself, which it appears you do.
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This example has an example of a script that dynamically adds keyframes to an animation controller and plays it.

https://transfer.rossvideo.com/f/273627d8ad30cf89

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