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PointList Limits

Posted By Nick Huntley 05-26-2023 17:42
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Is there a 16-point limit on xpPointLists? I noticed I cannot get it to render properly over 16 points and it seems to just fail on the "addpoint" command after 16 points... Was hoping to do a line chart that is updated every 5 seconds over the course of several minutes and compresses the curves every ...

RE: Countdown Clock 'zero'

Posted By Nick Huntley 03-26-2023 10:28
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
In the widget preferences menu for that specific widget, change the format from "s" to "ss", that guarantees a second digit even if it's a zero. Depending on the style you're going for, you may want to play with mono spacing numbers in the font as well (this makes clocks extremely subtle vs the ...

Scene Object Deleted when calling Scene.Project.FontExistsByName from external API

Posted By Nick Huntley 02-24-2023 14:17
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Any idea why this call seems to force reference to the internal scene object to be lost? I'm writing an external build script for use in Developer/Studio versions of XPression and everything works flawlessly except for this random recurring issue where scene objects seem to lose reference when this specific ...

Datalinq - Looking up a key by index in a JSON

Posted By Nick Huntley 01-24-2023 16:01
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hi! We're looking for a way to access data inside a JSON datalinq source while not necessarily knowing the keys. In our case we have a datalinq that represents a team (Green on image), and each of the key objects representing a player on the team (Red boxes on image) are named after the player's ID number, ...

RE: Maintain Aspect Ratio Mode in API

Posted By Nick Huntley 12-07-2022 14:24
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
I can upgrade my Developer PC but unfortunately we are not likely to be able to upgrade all 15 or so of our Studio XPressions and 10 Designers at this time so I'll likely be figuring out a way to match the scale I'm attempting using the material transform properties instead of the best-fit system. ...

RE: Maintain Aspect Ratio Mode in API

Posted By Nick Huntley 11-29-2022 12:11
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
I've got that one figured out, I was more curious on the "mode" selector underneath, if there was any enumeration not in the SDK to help change that via API. Every other part of that menu is workable through the API but I have not found anything referencing the "mode" by which to maintain the aspect ...

Maintain Aspect Ratio Mode in API

Posted By Nick Huntley 11-28-2022 20:49
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Does anyone know if this function of the Quad Options is accessible in the 10.5 API? I don't see it anywhere in the official documentation but I suspect its possible with SetObjectPropertyString catch-all method. Does anyone happen to know what this is officially called in the back-end? --------- ...

RE: Looking for a list of supported JSON datalinq queries

Posted By Nick Huntley 09-19-2022 12:24
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Awesome! This is a great list to work off of - should help cut down the number of custom endpoint requests I make to our API support guy exponentially! One other question - may be more of a support issue - any idea how many datalinqs one can active run at once before performance becomes degraded? I ...

RE: XPression and Windows 11 for production

Posted By Nick Huntley 09-15-2022 11:22
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We use it on a few of our machines that we forgot to block from updating via group policy. It hasn't presented any issues on Studio and I've been building on W11 on Developer for nearly a year - haven't had any issues on my end when deploying shows onto W10 or W11 based Studio machines. But your mileage ...

Looking for a list of supported JSON datalinq queries

Posted By Nick Huntley 09-10-2022 13:00
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hi! Through some digging in the forum I found an awesome shortcut that allows me to search JSON files for specific key-value-pairs using this method in the "column" section on Set Datalinq Properties and then use the "row" section to search any child attributes. Was curious if there are other shortcuts ...

Datalinq Header Numeric & Alphanumeric

Posted By Nick Huntley 08-02-2022 19:27
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
I'm using a pivot table to change some team shortcodes into various other info and I'm running into an issue where if a column header is numeric (some of my team shortcodes are just numbers) I cannot use them as a column reference value. I can look up the column "RUM" and instantly reference all the ...

Acuity Rosstalk

Posted By Nick Huntley 06-14-2022 13:21
Found In Egroup: Production Switchers \ view thread
Hi all, Curious if the Ross Acuity comes with the ability to speak to other devices (mainly XPressions) over rosstalk by default or if this is an option that needs to be licensed separately. Thanks, Nick ------------------------------ Nick Huntley ------------------------------

RE: Graphics Operation

Posted By Nick Huntley 05-13-2022 12:16
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hey Graham, I started in graphics operation several years ago and quickly learned that every show is WILDLY different. I found some shows were as easy as building out a sequencer (by copying templates and filling them out) and then hitting "take next" all day long (generally product reveals or corporate ...

RE: Xpression Datalinq and Authentication Bearer tokens

Posted By Nick Huntley 04-27-2022 02:15
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Hey Sean, Two common issues to watch out for: 1. Authorization vs Authentication - the former is standard for a server side oauth, the latter is used sparingly by some servers for some reason, beats me. 2.I've had to remove the colon from the end of Authorization to get it to work before but it ...

RE: Dynamically create text with Datalinq source

Posted By Nick Huntley 04-22-2022 15:36
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hey Doug, I was afraid of that still being the case. I do like your workaround though, using a scene as, essentially, a global method to "get" data and push it (albeit static) to other scenes. I think that could work for many of our projects with some modifications. I'm still interested in seeing if ...

RE: Dynamically create text with Datalinq source

Posted By Nick Huntley 04-21-2022 22:31
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
In theory running this onKeyPress should give me the ability to take any scene object and set it to "datalinq" per the PropertySourceType enumeration: dim scene as xpScene Dim Obj as xpTextObject engine.GetFocusedScene(scene) scene.GetFocusedObject(obj) Scene.SetObjectPropertyString(obj.Name,"Prope ...

RE: Dynamically create text with Datalinq source

Posted By Nick Huntley 04-21-2022 22:22
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Sure, but that doesn't change the switch from "Static Text" to "Datalinq" at the "Select Data Source" level which is the roadblock I keep running into with this specific use case. I want to be able to create a text object, then set it to "datalinq" via API, at the moment it is stuck in "static text" ...

RE: Dynamically create text with Datalinq source

Posted By Nick Huntley 04-21-2022 13:25
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Has this changed in the last 7 years? I'm hoping to make a lot of our graphics more flexible by creating and destroying objects dynamically rather than having hundreds of invisible objects ready to handle data sources but would need to be able to create objects via the SDK that can then be datalinqed ...

Which I/O Card Is Best? Pros & Cons?

Posted By Nick Huntley 04-20-2022 18:10
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
Hey everyone, Looking to upgrade several XPressions over the course of the next few months and was wondering if anyone knows of any quirks or issues with any of the supported cards. Specifically we are looking to update the XMIO2 cards we have to gain a 3rd output (alongside replacing some of our oldest ...

RE: Trying to get a published value FROM another published value

Posted By Nick Huntley 02-25-2022 15:56
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread
This is from the same scene. I am trying to run an onSetText to get another text field by getting that relationally from the first field (self.getparent(othertext)). I believe your earlier message solved the problem, it was less of a "can't get this field" and more of a "all text is set at the same time" ...