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RE: Shared Excel Workbooks

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-10-2020 14:40
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We've tried both, and we've tried both new and old style sharing, tried sharing on OneDrive, and it's not the sheet - this happens all the time. I believe it has more to do with how Excel/Windows is doing sharing. #XPression

RE: Shared Excel Workbooks

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-07-2020 14:27
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Nope. We just have to make sure everything is saved, and occasionally the PA needs to close the workbook. #XPression

Shared Excel Workbooks

Posted By Frederick Haab 09-18-2019 13:31
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I realize this is more of failing with excel and not Xpression/Datalinq, but we have a master spreadsheet with sports data in it, teams, matchups, the usual. Our production assistant fills in most of the data; operators may fill in certain fields that have, for example, the name of image files, ...

RE: datalinq and updating datalinq keys

Posted By Frederick Haab 08-08-2019 17:24
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Because then I have to do that for like 600 players, and there's a rule for when there's no first name given that is easy in VB Scripting, but a pain in Excel formula. But whatever. I just put the OnSetText script on both; the first one just fails, the second one works, it doesn't matter which order ...

RE: datalinq and updating datalinq keys

Posted By Frederick Haab 08-08-2019 02:01
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Ok, so here's an example of trying to keep everything in sync; I have a first name text field, and a last name text field, and I set a texture based on both (last_first.png); I put the OnSetText event on the last name, but sometimes it works, and sometimes, when it runs, it runs before the first name ...

datalinq and updating datalinq keys

Posted By Frederick Haab 08-07-2019 22:16
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I have 3 datalinq keys: MATCH, TEAM1, and TEAM2 Using an Excel workbook as a datasource, MATCH selects the desired match up on one sheet, where two Text objects are set to team1 and team2 (text from the spreadsheet); those objects have an onSetText that sets the TEAM1 and TEAM2 (datalinq keys) to ...

RE: Set Font Material

Posted By Frederick Haab 07-31-2019 05:16
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I figured it out.... it would be nice to select a material from the library, but this works... you need to get the face attribute (the color is coming in as a comma separated list of RGB values): dim values() = split(Text, ",") if Engine.GetFontByName("Team" & item & "Font", font) then if font ...

Set Font Material

Posted By Frederick Haab 07-31-2019 04:41
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I need to change font materials, and can't seem to figure out how to do it. I have two team fonts: Team1Font, Team2Font. I get that I can use tags, so when I'm setting something for team 1, I can use: textObject.TextWithTags = "(Team1Font)" & my_text_value That changes the font; however, ...

RE: XPression 8.5 Officially Released Today!

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-15-2019 15:48
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Hey, I'm a developer with developer dongle. Our production systems are currently 8.7, and I need to work on a project - but I don't have that version. The current download page has 9.0 - but I need developer 8.7. Is there somewhere to go for older downloads? #XPression

RE: XPression Version 8.0 Official Release

Posted By Frederick Haab 09-24-2018 18:16
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Will this change the way I can use the dongle? If I update it when I'm working at home, will I still be able to use it on my office system? #XPression

RE: Trigger GPI through Scene Director or Script

Posted By Frederick Haab 09-04-2018 16:59
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I have no way to test this, but from the API Documentation: Dim board As xpGPIBoard engine.GetGPIBoard(0, board) board.TriggerAction(PinID.Value) The board would need to be defined in Xpression, I'd assume. Put in OnOnline and OnOffline events. #XPression

RE: When and where can I set a text field material macro?

Posted By Frederick Haab 06-20-2018 04:05
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Thanks, Brian! #XPression

When and where can I set a text field material macro?

Posted By Frederick Haab 06-19-2018 19:02
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I'm trying to write a script to highlight a column of values (all separate text fields) based on a control value. I have two materials, WHITE and GOLD. Obviously, you can enter "(m:WHITE)SOMETHING" or "(m:GOLD)SOMETHING" in the take item data, and it's all good. I need the scene ...

RE: AR Camera Question

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-19-2018 18:51
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Yes, the offset settings - but what effect does CCD width and height have? I understand the offset values are center of zoom shifts, and are really important, but manually setting them (instead of allowing VCC to do it), and keeping the CCD width and height at 0 doesn't seem to negatively affect tracking. ...

RE: text

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-18-2018 01:08
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Good question. I was going to suggest making a superscript font that you could tag, but I see no way to vertically shift or top align it. Even this website editor allows[SUP]superscript.[/SUP] #XPression

RE: How to calculate square root in Xpression Visual Logic

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-17-2018 23:15
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I think there's really no simple way to do it except fall back to scripting. Would be interesting to be able to define global functions that were callable from visual logic, but that's a pretty tall order. You could try setting a a hidden text object's text value to the number you want the square ...

AR Camera Question

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-17-2018 22:25
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Wondering what effect the camera CCD height and width actually have on rendering. When we are done tracking, and go back into our scene to do some work, the perspective camera we've created is way off somewhere, so we: 1. Put the object we want to look at on the origin (0, 0, 0) ...

RE: need VBscript help for sorting script

Posted By Frederick Haab 04-17-2018 22:06
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Sorry, I could really look into doing it the way you want, but it would take a little while. If you're using datalinq to get the data, though, some basic SQL should help - something like SELECT * WHERE Party IN ("GRN", "LIB", "PC", "NDP") ORDER BY Votes. Let Xpression do the work for you if it can. ...

RE: RossTalk and GPI Triggers

Posted By Frederick Haab 01-27-2018 12:51
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I've reworked code to maintain a constantly open socket, which seems to be working so far. #XPression

RossTalk and GPI Triggers

Posted By Frederick Haab 01-24-2018 22:11
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I seem to be having a problem opening a serial connection to Xpression and triggering multiple GPIs. So I am obtaining live data, and have 10 possible GPI triggers based on the live data; if the updates come in slowly, it seems to work OK, but if they happen too fast, I seem to lose some triggers. ...