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RE: XPression 11 Right-Click Bug on Windows 11 Laptop

Posted By Mike DeMarco 12-04-2023 18:08
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Appreciate the quick responses guys. Yes, I forgot to mention this is specifically with XPression Designer for me, so it does happen to be a multi-monitor setup (laptop and external display) with my second monitor being 4K with 150% scaling. I haven't noticed it working when I keep things on ...

XPression 11 Right-Click Bug on Windows 11 Laptop

Posted By Mike DeMarco 12-03-2023 20:25
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Anybody else run into an issue where the right-click menu works normally until you have a secondary XPression window open (a Virtual Output, the Visual Logic window). It's a really weird bug, only seems to affect XPression, like right-clicking works outside of XPression still, and as soon as you ...

RE: Graphic Freezes, Inactive Framebuffer, Different Error Messages

Posted By Mike DeMarco 04-25-2023 20:03
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Just a quick follow-up as I'm still dealing with this issue. I did increase my child scene duplication out to 4 children, and the ops are still reporting crashes on the project. I'm not really sure what else to do besides rebuilding parts of the scene which will bring it out of parity with the crawls ...

RE: Graphic Freezes, Inactive Framebuffer, Different Error Messages

Posted By Mike DeMarco 03-22-2023 22:09
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Yep, that makes sense. That could very well be the problem; maybe the randomness of the breaks can just be bad timing of when the data comes in. Most of the time it's okay, but sometimes it just isn't. The issue I think I'm having is I really only have 1 child scene, that displays the one string, ...

RE: Graphic Freezes, Inactive Framebuffer, Different Error Messages

Posted By Mike DeMarco 03-20-2023 20:04
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Ah, that explains it. Thanks Garner. That's always been the difficult part; I can share the project files and everything, but so many of the errors like this seem related to when live data is running through the project, and that makes it very difficult to both recreate myself (since everything ...

Graphic Freezes, Inactive Framebuffer, Different Error Messages

Posted By Mike DeMarco 03-16-2023 23:33
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Hey all, hoping I can get some direction with one, but it's a pretty difficult issue to explain. I've had this problem basically crop up with each new project I've made lately that are utilizing similar bones to each other. The issue seems related specifically to a crawl system (scene group with ...

RE: Global Constraints / External Constraints

Posted By Mike DeMarco 10-26-2022 11:42
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​Hey @James Peltzer (wow it's hard to find you in a huge list of James'es) New development on this today that maybe you or somebody else could offer a quick fix on. So, we've been successfully updating constraints using external .txt files for quite a long time now. My main use case is to have a ...

RE: Data Pop-In When Taking a Scene

Posted By Mike DeMarco 09-22-2022 09:33
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Hey Garner, I've tried that with Dynamic URLs and while it seemed better, I still had to develop that slow mask transition to more reliably hide pop-in. I'll try it again on this newer Static URL project today and see if it helps. Is there a common practice for using Cue'ing for take items? We ...

Data Pop-In When Taking a Scene

Posted By Mike DeMarco 09-21-2022 17:05
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Hey all, Has anyone dealt with this issue? In theory, I understood it when I was playing around with Dynamic URLs for my RSS Datalinqs, but now that we can use Table Presets with Static URLs in XPression 11, I've been experimenting and hoping I wouldn't see this anymore. Again in theory, I can understand ...

RE: Datalinq Default URL Macros

Posted By Mike DeMarco 09-20-2022 10:35
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Hey Simon, You're hitting on something I've been confused about for a long time. With a Static URL, you're allowed to use %macroname%, but when you look at Default Macro URLs, they are for url "macros that would normally be set by Datalinq Keys in a scene", but Static datalinqs can't use %datalinqkeys%... ...

RE: Subtracting time in visual logic or script

Posted By Mike DeMarco 07-21-2022 10:33
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Ha, 10-4. Thanks for the reply about it. Also, noticed that you're a Freelancer (and very active on the Boards!); any chance I might be able to reach out and pick your brain a little about that? Absolutely no worries, if not! ------------------------------ Mike DeMarco Video Production Engineer ...

RE: Subtracting time in visual logic or script

Posted By Mike DeMarco 07-21-2022 10:05
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Hey Mal, Curious about the second Encoder for the seconds; is there a specific reason for it that I might be missing? ------------------------------ Mike DeMarco Video Production Engineer Las Vegas United States ------------------------------

RE: Subtracting time in visual logic or script

Posted By Mike DeMarco 07-19-2022 11:45
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Hey Jarod, I imagine you're going to be looking for something like this: The Time Delta block under DateTime will output data based on two Date Time data points entering into it, which you'll need to use Encode Date Time blocks to turn the data you need into DateTime types by declaring what parts ...

RE: Questions about Efficiency

Posted By Mike DeMarco 07-07-2022 10:49
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Hey Red! Hope you're doing well! That's right. That's where my thinking was heading; to instead point to something like C:\projects\images\Track_[#]\[asset] so in order to change the material, I just need to replace assets in each track folder (A, B, C, D). I guess the real question I was having ...

RE: Questions about Efficiency

Posted By Mike DeMarco 07-06-2022 17:32
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Hey Michelle, Thanks, I honestly never expected a reply on this one, lol. That's mostly how I've seen others use dynamic materials; for team switching and such, which makes a ton of sense! In my case, I'm looking at backgrounds elements which different color scenes. We usually build for up ...

RE: Xpression Datalinq and Authentication Bearer tokens

Posted By Mike DeMarco 04-28-2022 13:30
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Glad I could help! ------------------------------ Mike DeMarco Video Production Engineer Las Vegas United States ------------------------------

RE: Xpression Datalinq and Authentication Bearer tokens

Posted By Mike DeMarco 04-28-2022 11:02
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If I'm reading that right, you have the entire "Authentication: Bearer " as a value when it might need to be separated as a key/value. I'm a novice at this kind of stuff for sure, but I have API with similar auth I do in Postman that is set up similar to this. So, as your key, your would put "Authentication" ...

RE: Datalinq Server Data Outside of XPression

Posted By Mike DeMarco 03-16-2022 16:40
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Thanks Garner. That's a bit disappointing. Not the end of the world though, guess I'll just have to tie into our data engineer's database instead. And thanks for the suggestions, but I don't think that's really what I'm looking for. In XPression, it's not really a preview that I want to see, it's ...

Datalinq Server Data Outside of XPression

Posted By Mike DeMarco 03-16-2022 12:25
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Hey all, I'm still very much a beginner in the web app development realm, but barring any specific built-in roadblocks I think my theory is sound. We deal with live Horse Racing data and I want to build a web site/app that serves as a visual resource for our operators. We currently use virtual scenes ...

Questions about Efficiency

Posted By Mike DeMarco 01-07-2022 11:44
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With some new XPression features and new ideas for how to do things, I have a few instances where I'm questioning if a new process is better/more efficient, or just change for the sake of change, which I want to avoid. I'm sure there aren't really perfect answers, and everything is very dependent on ...