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Hello, im trying to fire xpression actions from excel macros. We have all our news producers working with excel spreadsheets that have macro buttons inside, and the graphics operator fires from the excel macros to our Avid Deko system. now we have an xpression, and we want to continue the use of excel. i've been programming excel macros with the Xpression library reference, but seem that the language used in VBA macros (excel) does not match with the scripting of Xpression. I have scripts that work in Xpression, but when I run them from Excel, debug errors pop up.

any help would be appreciated

thanks
Diego

Have excel macros that set cells to 0 or 1. Then Datalinq to those cells and execute OnSetText scripts in the text objects. When the cell changes the OnSetText script will run. You could trigger pretty much anything.

Or use Visual Logic and datalinq to the excel cell and use Greater Than blocks or selector blocks and trigger other blocks to set positions, opacity, scales, etc...
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thanks Garner...
another question, can i use the property .text to assign a text to a text object, or I can do it only with datalinq?

thanks
diego

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Yup, ,text can be used to assign text to a text object.
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Alternatively, you can route everything through something like Justmacros and send ross commands to XPression
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