Graphics

Hello,

I'm trying to learn who do to scripting and trying to figure out how I would apply scripting to change the color of text that is shown on videoboard. Example: If someone has been on the ice for 1:30 seconds have that text change from white to red. What is the best way to create scripting to perform this and other data driven graphical changes to text. 

Thank you.

Roughly. - This assumes that red and white are both Materials already in your project. - Almost every AI tool can now write xpression scripts for you that are basic like this.  So use your tool of choice and then can get you what you need.

Dim matRed, matWhite
Dim timeArray, minutes, seconds, totalSeconds

' Retrieve the existing materials from the project
Engine.GetMaterialByName("RED", matRed)
Engine.GetMaterialByName("WHITE", matWhite)

' Split the text string into an array using the colon as the divider
timeArray = Split(Self.Text, ":")

' Check if the split created exactly two parts (minutes and seconds)
If UBound(timeArray) = 1 Then
    
    ' Ensure both parts are numbers to prevent script errors
    If IsNumeric(timeArray(0)) And IsNumeric(timeArray(1)) Then
        
        ' Convert strings to integers
        minutes = CInt(timeArray(0))
        seconds = CInt(timeArray(1))
        
        ' Calculate the total time in seconds
        totalSeconds = (minutes * 60) + seconds
        
        ' 1 minute and 30 seconds = 90 total seconds
        If totalSeconds >= 90 Then
            Self.SetMaterial 0, matRed
        Else
            Self.SetMaterial 0, matWhite
        End If
        
    Else
        ' Fallback to white if the text contains non-numeric characters
        Self.SetMaterial 0, matWhite
    End If
    
Else
    ' Fallback to white if the text doesn't contain exactly one colon
    Self.SetMaterial 0, matWhite
End If

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Garrett Hall
Overtime Elite
Atlanta United States
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David,

You should be able to do something like this with Visual Logic. Here's a quick example:

If you want to dive into scripting as well, I highly recommend this XPression U Video Series

https://www.rossvideo.com/resources/ross-university/xpression-scripting-part-2-onsettext-widgets-and-concatenation/

https://www.rossvideo.com/resources/ross-university/xpression-scripting-part-1-an-introduction/

https://www.rossvideo.com/resources/ross-university/xpression-scripting-part-3-creating-a-crawl-using-scripts/

If you are keen to use script you can make a Red font and a White font and then use material tags.

Make sure to make you OG font white. 

OnSet Text script 

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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom
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