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RE: Loading a Specific Webpage Through Scripting?

Posted By Ben Scripps 01-22-2025 19:12
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Oh, that works like a champ--thanks much! ------------------------------ Ben Scripps Assistant Operations Manager WWTV Cadillac MI ------------------------------

RE: Loading a Specific Webpage Through Scripting?

Posted By Ben Scripps 01-21-2025 11:33
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Thanks for that info--I'll definitely look into this as a path forward, but I know our news director is adamant that it be a live page (one of the things we use is showing power outage maps from the local electric utility, so it needs to be at least close to live). We do have a Streamline server ...

Loading a Specific Webpage Through Scripting?

Posted By Ben Scripps 01-17-2025 13:30
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Hi all--question for you regarding scripting... Our producers sometimes like to use live webpages during newscasts; our current setup relies on them loading the page on their PC, which is available to the director as a source on our switcher. What I'd really like to do is build an XPression template ...

Question About Sorting SQL in DataLinq

Posted By Ben Scripps 01-30-2024 11:43
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Question About Sorting SQL in DataLinq

Posted By Ben Scripps 01-30-2024 11:43
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Hi all--I've a quick question regarding an issue I'm running into with DataLinq. I've got an SQL database I'm connecting to on our local network which holds election results. Amongst the columns is one called "CombinedLocationRaceName", which combines the text from two other columns ("LocationName" ...

RE: Restoring Font Warning for Multiple Scenes?

Posted By Ben Scripps 11-06-2023 13:26
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I'm on v10.0 build 5250. Thanks! ------------------------------ Ben Scripps Technical Director / XPression Designer WWTV Cadillac MI ------------------------------

Restoring Font Warning for Multiple Scenes?

Posted By Ben Scripps 11-06-2023 12:40
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Hi all--quick question that feels like it should be simple, but I'm just not seeing it... When changing a font in my XPression project, I used to get an error dialog warning me that the font was used in multiple scenes. There's a check box to suppress warnings about that in the future, and apparently ...

RE: Elections and DataLinq

Posted By Ben Scripps 02-17-2022 13:24
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Perfect--that was it! Thanks again! ------------------------------ Ben Scripps Technical Director / XPression Designer WWTV Cadillac MI ------------------------------

RE: Elections and DataLinq

Posted By Ben Scripps 02-17-2022 13:00
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Thanks Red--that's helpful! Can you confirm--does this only work with numeric data? I've got it working where if I use: SELECT [cand1] FROM [Elections$] WHERE [elexRow]=@Text1@ --cand1 is a column in the table, Elections$ is the table name, and elexRow is a column of unique numbers in each row, ...

Elections and DataLinq

Posted By Ben Scripps 02-16-2022 16:33
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The TL;DR up front: Is there a "one-sheet" step-by-step list of how to set up referencing multiple columns' worth of DataLinq data for multiple text objects in a single scene? So here's my question in longer form. I'm trying to build an elections graphic for our newscasts. (If this sounds familiar, ...

RE: Hiding Published Objects from MOS?

Posted By Ben Scripps 02-10-2022 13:29
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I see my problem now--I just needed a kick in the pants from you guys...:-) When I built this, I set all of the text layers as "Static Text" instead of "Datalinq"; I was using the "Datalinq" option in the "User Control" section to poll data. When I change the layers to use "Datalinq" as the data source ...

Hiding Published Objects from MOS?

Posted By Ben Scripps 02-09-2022 16:00
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I'm trying to build out a setup for our producers wherein they'd have an Excel spreadsheet into which they can enter election data--vote counts, precinct counts, etc. My XPression scene is loading the various points of data into various text objects. And when I work exclusively within XPression, everything ...

RE: Scripting Changes to a Gradient?

Posted By Ben Scripps 12-13-2021 19:39
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Fantastic work--thanks Mal and Riley for all your help! ------------------------------ Ben Scripps Technical Director / XPression Designer WWTV Cadillac MI ------------------------------

RE: Scripting Changes to a Gradient?

Posted By Ben Scripps 12-10-2021 15:39
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There's definitely a way to replace materials; I'm using primaryBackground.setMaterial(0,sportBkg)​ to replace part of the background with a sport-specific material. I was really hoping to be able to actually change the gradient settings within a material through scripting rather than building a ...

Scripting Changes to a Gradient?

Posted By Ben Scripps 12-09-2021 16:42
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I'm starting to get into scripting in XPression v10 (I love me some Visual Logic, but scripting is so much more flexible...:-) ) and I've run into a quick question... I'd like to build a graphic for our sports people to use in set monitors where they can select a team from one of the major sports ...

RE: Scripting Points for a Lines Object in XPression v10

Posted By Ben Scripps 09-17-2021 14:39
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Thanks Simon--I just came across that in the SDK help yesterday and had started playing with it, but that sample project answers a lot of my questions. Thanks much for uploading it! ------------------------------ Ben Scripps ------------------------------

Scripting Points for a Lines Object in XPression v10

Posted By Ben Scripps 09-09-2021 14:29
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I'm trying to build a graphic in which producers will be able to select from a list of locations and the graphic will display a map with a line connecting the two points on a map. My plan is to build a DataLinq database which will hold all of the X/Y/Z coordinates for the locations; when the producer ...

RE: Flag Graphics Working in Designer, Not on Project Server?

Posted By Ben Scripps 07-26-2021 13:15
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First off, thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. I've tried most of them with no success. I've also rebuilt the graphic to use Dynamic Materials (we're on XPression v10), so the way the graphic now works is this: -The text field for the country name is set to Static Text and uses a Datalinq ...

Flag Graphics Working in Designer, Not on Project Server?

Posted By Ben Scripps 07-24-2021 20:15
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Flag Graphics Working in Designer, Not on Project Server?

Posted By Ben Scripps 07-24-2021 20:15
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TL;DR: National flag graphics appear in Designer, but not after publishing to the project server. I'm trying to build a graphic for our sports people to do Olympics medal counts. I've built a database for DataLinq which contains all of the three-letter codes, names of the nations and the name of the ...