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Hello,

I've been running into a few problems with xpression API.

I'm attempting to change the values of different objects in a scene, but it seems like I'm not able to affect the scene when it's taken, but I can change some things in the layout view.

Specifically, I'm trying to play out an xpAnimController from excel. Nothing seems to work (but if I place the script in a scene director, it seems to work?)

My code:

Public Sub PlayAnimRange(Name As String, scenename As String, scene As xpScene, RangeStart As Double, RangeEnd As Double)
'Plays an already existing xpAnimController by name
Dim anim As xpAnimController
Engine.GetSceneByName scenename, scene, False
scene.GetAnimControllerByName Name, anim
Engine.DebugMessage anim.Name, mt_Notify
anim.PlayRange RangeStart, RangeEnd
anim.Play
Engine.DebugMessage RangeEnd, mt_Notify
End Sub

This is being called via macro in excel
Debugmessage confirms that I can grab objects, but neither anim.Play or anim.PlayRange seems to do anything.
ditto for scene directors, and updating text.

I know I can accomplish this if I do something like dashboard or datalinq (trigger script via onset text), but I'm attempting to bypass datalinq entirely (we're testing all excel workflows).
It seems like if I call methods outside of certain areas of xPression, they seem to not work? Why is this the case?
Is there no way to affect data directly outside of XPression via script?

I do a similar thing by triggering scene directors when scenes are online. To affect an online scene you have to get the online scene by calling the framebuffer, then layer, then get scene. I created a loop awhile back which searches through both Framebuffers and layers -5 - 5 and check if it is a LowerThird by comparing the scene name to my known Lower third naming convention.
Not sure exactly what you're going for, but this works for me. You may want to comment it out a bit more with debugmessages if it isnt working. Also, I have the following code in a GPI.

Hope this helps.

dim Output as xpOutputFrameBuffer
dim Scene as xpScene
dim IsScene as boolean
IsScene = False

for i as integer = 0 to 1
if engine.GetOutputFrameBuffer(i,Output) = true then
for o as integer = -5 to 5
if Output.GetSceneOnLayer(o,Scene) = true then
' check if it is the scene name you are looking for
if not Scene.Name.Contains("LowerThird-") then
continue for
else
IsScene = True
exit for
end if
end if
next
end if
' If Scene is true, we can exit
if IsScene = True then
Exit for
end if
next

' If we have no Scene, leave the Sub
if IsScene = false then
Exit Sub
end if
' if we do have a scene, you can now access scene directors and animation controller through the Scene object

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I do a similar thing by triggering scene directors when scenes are online. To affect an online scene you have to get the online scene by calling the framebuffer, then layer, then get scene. I created a loop awhile back which searches through both Framebuffers and layers -5 - 5 and check if it is a LowerThird by comparing the scene name to my known Lower third naming convention.
Not sure exactly what you're going for, but this works for me. You may want to comment it out a bit more with debugmessages if it isnt working. Also, I have the following code in a GPI.

Hope this helps.


dim Output as xpOutputFrameBuffer
dim Scene as xpScene
dim IsScene as boolean
IsScene = False

for i as integer = 0 to 1
if engine.GetOutputFrameBuffer(i,Output) = true then
for o as integer = -5 to 5
if Output.GetSceneOnLayer(o,Scene) = true then
' check if it is the scene name you are looking for
if not Scene.Name.Contains("LowerThird-") then
continue for
else
IsScene = True
exit for
end if
end if
next
end if
' If Scene is true, we can exit
if IsScene = True then
Exit for
end if
next

' If we have no Scene, leave the Sub
if IsScene = false then
Exit Sub
end if
' if we do have a scene, you can now access scene directors and animation controller through the Scene object

Hi Mike,

Brilliant. Never occured to me that I had to access the framebuffer to access the scene. Thanks!
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