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RE: How To Text alignment Horizontally Center when typed?

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 05-18-2021 12:51
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hello, You can either script it. The number 540 is a variable number. Change this to change the location on the screen. Dim text as xpTextObject dim height as integer Self.GetObjectByName("Text1", text) height = text.boundingbox.height text.posY = height / 2 + 540 Or use visual logic to reposition ...

RE: Script to call other scene directors

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 09-14-2018 18:17
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Hello! This is a script in a scene director. There is a copy prior to this that works but it doesn't seem to run this script even when I simply the scene. The idea when the scene director plays it will decided which other scene director to play. I can't use transition logic as the program ...

RE: Script to call other scene directors

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 09-13-2018 16:40
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hello! Thanks! I've tried that as well. I'm not sure if I need to reset the scene directors? It doesn't seem to consistently play. Any other ideas? #XPression

Script to call other scene directors

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 09-13-2018 15:13
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Hello, I'm trying to write a script to play other scene directors based upon the bounding box height but it doesn't seem to be working. Does anyone have any ideas? dim MessageIN as xpTextObject Dim Box0to1 as xpSceneDirector Dim Box0to2 as xpSceneDirector Dim Box0to3 as xpSceneDirector ...

RE: Pausing a video at frame 1

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 10-17-2016 15:23
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
We just did something like this. Created a quad with a video material that was set to play once. No auto start. The Material was published to be changed. In the scene director, create an animation controller was as long as the longest material would be, a pause event at the beginning and a script ...

RE: How do you Mask a Crawl??

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 10-06-2016 17:28
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Thanks! #XPression

RE: How do you Mask a Crawl??

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 10-06-2016 15:40
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hello, Could you please reactivate the sample links? They have expired. Thank you! #XPression

RE: Smart Quotes within Xpression

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 09-17-2015 15:02
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Interesting. I can do it from the MOS plugin, the layout, can copy and paste them in but it doesn't work to type it in the sequence template data. Strange. You could leave the character map open and copy and paste from it? (window button all programs>accessories>system tool>character map). ...

RE: Smart Quotes within Xpression

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 09-17-2015 13:08
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Are you referring to " " vs " "? Here's the shortcuts: http://smartquotesforsmartpeople.com/ #XPression

RE: MOS bugs and things that could be better

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 04-30-2015 14:07
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
We're on using V5.7 Build 3064. We copy and paste without problems and we can tab between fields. We've only had problems with the euro symbol not work but figured out it was the chosen font didn't have the symbol in it. We haven't had any problems copying keys from one story to another. Yes, ...

RE: Script to a scene to call up a group and add another scene to the sequencer when created

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 03-04-2015 13:16
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Thank you for your help! #XPression

Script to a scene to call up a group and add another scene to the sequencer when created

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 03-02-2015 20:24
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
I'm trying to have a scene that will it is put into the sequencer it will create a group in that location and add another scene to that group. To go further, it will look at a text field in its scene to determine the number of scenes to create while changing their datalinq keys. But first, I have ...

RE: Formatting text to remain within boundary of L3rd Bar

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 03-02-2015 19:59
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Hello, I'm wondering if it's getting confused by having a set of coordinates and wordwrap and then you get an if statement. What are the first set of coordinates for? textobject.PosY = 325 textobject.ScaleX = 1.0 textobject.ScaleY = 1.0 textobject.WordWrapWidth = 1720.00 Is the ...

RE: Auto center text when importing text from file.

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 11-27-2014 14:07
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
I'm not sure if what Xpression Prime version can or can't do but if it can't do visual logic, here is a script that does the same thing. This will put the centre of the text box in the centre of the page. Change the + 540 to adjust the position. Dim text as xpTextObject dim height ...

RE: Changing font material based upon information in a text field

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 11-04-2014 21:12
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Thank you! I will try this out! #XPression

Changing font material based upon information in a text field

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 11-03-2014 15:17
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Hello! I'm trying to create a page that changes the colour of two text fields based upon the information of one. I've tried two different ways of approaching this - change the material and change the font with a material on the font. Both ways will work locally but neither seem to update through an ...

RE: font install with Project Server & iNews MOS

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 10-27-2014 20:10
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Ok thanks! I can't do it until it's off air and tonight's the election. Thank you! #XPression

font install with Project Server & iNews MOS

Posted By Lesley Mitchell 10-27-2014 20:01
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Hello, I'm trying to install a new font across our Xpression network that has a number of designer Xpressions, a couple of control rooms and uses the iNews MOS to modify the keys. I am trying it out small over our test connection but am losing the font at iNews. I'm not sure if I'm missing a piece ...