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Widget Control via scripting

Posted By Brian Bell 01-24-2025 11:19
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I have two projects loaded, and I have widgets attached to a base project while another project is active. Is there a method via scripting to control the widgets in the non-active project? ------------------------------ Brian Bell Senior Real-Time Developer ESPN INC. Charlotte United States ...

RE: Display Image(s) in Panel

Posted By Brian Bell 03-07-2024 11:00
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Thanks Altaz - that's what I ended up doing with some help from Chat GPT... ------------------------------ Brian Bell Senior Real-Time Developer ESPN INC. Charlotte United States ------------------------------

RE: Display Image(s) in Panel

Posted By Brian Bell 03-04-2024 13:51
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Is there a method I can use that will remove the file:/ portion of the filename ? ------------------------------ Brian Bell Senior Real-Time Developer ESPN INC. Charlotte United States ------------------------------

Display Image(s) in Panel

Posted By Brian Bell 02-27-2024 09:39
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I would like to display a sponsor (PNG) image in my panel. I have a file picker parameter and I can see the file path of the image. I was hoping that once I selected an image, I could use the setStyle command to change the background image of a Dropspot area (or something else) to display this PNG file. ...

RE: baseball score bug using Xpression only.

Posted By Brian Bell 01-22-2023 20:49
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Malcolm, I have mine set up for 2 different scenarios. 1. You can do a simple visible on/off and link those to dashboard (I used checkboxes for the bases);the buttons can be set to perform multiple on/off scenarios. 2. If you want to remain XPression only, I have a text list widget set up with ...

RE: Converting color material to white

Posted By Brian Bell 08-16-2022 09:20
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Thanks James - fortunately I don't need to animate in this case. I'll try Red's suggestion as well and see what works best. ------------------------------ Brian Bell Coordinating Designer ESPN INC. Charlotte United States ------------------------------

RE: Converting color material to white

Posted By Brian Bell 08-15-2022 18:13
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I may have found a solution - but if anyone has something better, please post. Structure the Image and Color like this: And set the blending mode for "LayerObject2" to this: The color can technically be anything - in my case I needed white. ------------------------------ Brian Bell Coordinating ...

Converting color material to white

Posted By Brian Bell 08-15-2022 13:21
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has a creative way to make a full color asset output as white - or even output just the alpha channel might work. I tried the color correct effect and can get black - but I can't colorize that (aka make it white). Another potential wrinkle is these assets will be volatile ...

RE: Xpression - Center Concatenated text - different font sizes

Posted By Brian Bell 03-03-2022 18:11
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So I found this while I was looking for something else. An interesting way to handle this. One question though - do you have a method to control the text autosqueeze? So maybe for example each text element can vary but the totality would be constrained - perhaps by the width of the base quad? --- ...

Dashboard - Clear Cache?

Posted By Brian Bell 01-14-2021 22:18
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Is there a method to clear the data received by the Datalinq Server from Dashboard? We use a lot of panels for different sports, and more often than not you'll see data from multiple grid files appear in the data stream - even after we've closed out a panel. Or - is there a way to force a ...

RE: XLSX Spreadsheets and Datalinq

Posted By Brian Bell 11-11-2019 15:40
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This was mainly to correct an issue where when testing the connection to the spreadsheets, it would fail with a driver warning message. Be aware that there is a build of 8.5 that was buggy as well with regards to xlsx spreadsheets. Support is aware (I don't know what build it was), and newer builds of ...

XLSX Spreadsheets and Datalinq

Posted By Brian Bell 11-04-2019 19:06
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I've had a lot of questions / issues regarding XLSX formatted spreadsheets recently, but here's what normally seems to work: Download both the 32-bit and 64-bit drivers from this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920 The issue seems to be XPression wanting the ...

XPression Desktop Preview in Dashboard Question

Posted By Brian Bell 07-23-2019 20:05
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I was experimenting with the Desktop Preview. Is it possible to: 1. Have a button push send the scene into the preview (perhaps a CUE / preview state?) and a second push take the scene to air? 2. Can the XPression sequence remain untouched (as opposed to using SEQI which moves all over the ...

RE: NCAA Basketball & Genius

Posted By Brian Bell 07-10-2019 17:13
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I also posted asking when this becomes native in datalinq. Waiting for a response. #XPression

RE: NCAA Basketball & Genius

Posted By Brian Bell 07-10-2019 15:59
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Genius has a utility that makes their data format just like the statcrew xml. But it's a temporary fix. Note: single digit jerseys will appear that way while statcrew has a leading zero. #XPression

RE: Image/Video masking

Posted By Brian Bell 06-19-2019 16:07
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In this case, yes. These are simple black/white images. They came from an image sequence that I know I can use in After Effects. I was hoping to do the same in XPression but it looks like they are not processed in the same manner. #XPression

Image/Video masking

Posted By Brian Bell 06-12-2019 18:21
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Hi, I have a PNG image sequence that I'd like to use as a mask, but I've been unable to get either a single image or video clip I've created do do what it's supposed to be doing. I've done plenty of masks with other items in the past but this one has me stumped. I've tried playing with the various ...

RE: Center 4 Text Objects Visual Logic

Posted By Brian Bell 05-29-2019 03:49
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Paul - I tried my simple example on 8.5 b 4571 (one step newer than yours) and it seems to be working. There is an alternate method that uses scripting, but the same principle. It's what I used to do before Visual Logic became available. As you can see below, it's doing the same basic thing - getting ...

RE: Center 4 Text Objects Visual Logic

Posted By Brian Bell 05-24-2019 14:33
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Paul, Looks like you're only using 2 fonts, right? One for first name and one for last name? You can reuse those blocks in Visual logic - connect them to as many of the concatenate blocks you need. Otherwise, the only thing I can think of is to make sure you have spelled the font name correctly ...

RE: Center 4 Text Objects Visual Logic

Posted By Brian Bell 05-23-2019 16:27
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What I do is combine the text into a 5th text group (that is unpublished) using visual logic. In this manner, you can also manage the Auto Squeeze width of a single text line regardless of how long the names are. You can even build in functionality to change the delimiter if you only needed one name... ...