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  • 1.  Working with image metadata in a script

    Posted 08-17-2020 21:55

    I have this graphic that has a replaceable image (a sports team logo) that will eventually come from Streamline. All those images contain three meta tags, 1 is the team location (city), 2 is the team name (mascot) and 3 is the league or conference.

    I tried at first to approach it from Visual Logic but that became too cumbersome (too many league/conference logos), so I dived into scripting.

    I'm still a rookie at this, but I got it to work manually:

     

    So, if I publish the text selector (League variable in the above) and manually enter a name, this script works.

    However, I would LIKE to get the contents for that League variable from the third meta tag of the main team image.

    I thought it would work to just pull it and place it in Visual Logic, but I'm guessing this script runs BEFORE Visual Logic does its thing.

    I suppose I'm asking, how do I call that meta data in my script?



  • 2.  RE: Working with image metadata in a script

    Posted 08-19-2020 04:31

    It would seem that when I talk about "metadata" in terms of Streamline, that it is something different from image metadata in the the more basic sense. I tried to download images from our Streamline system and search for these "user-defined" (in Streamline) tags using EXIF Pilot. I failed to find them. So, perhaps this "Streamline" metadata only works inside the XPression/Streamline environment? As a result, any "help" I find online about working with image metadata in Visual Basic isn't helpful at all. I suppose I will have to give up on this project and find a different approach.


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