update to QDisplay

[Chris Ashworth]

Thanks to Mathias Halén for submitting an update to QDisplay, which now allows you to set the font size and font color via AppleScript.

You can find an updated pre-built binary linked on the project page here:

https://github.com/Figure53/QDisplay

Thanks Mathias!

-Chris

[nizer]

Is there a way to have time remaining also be part of the text color and size.

This…

tell application "QDisplay"

set timeRemaining to 60

set message to "Showtime in..." & timeRemaining

set messageSize to 50

set messageColor to "red"

end tell

Produces this… (with the red text static and the small white text counting down).

(see attached) 

[Waschfeld, Maik]

Hi Team,

 

And:

>set messageColor to ““

 

produces an AppleScript-error “-609”, as text: “Connection not allowed. (?)”  and a full breakdown of QDisplay.

I assumed, it would reset the color to a default setting.

 

 

Regards…

 

…Maik Waschfeld

[Chris Ashworth]

Nope! It doesn’t. :-)

Feel free to submit a pull request on github ;-)

[nizer]

I got this from Mathias Halén via email. Great work around.

But you can use a AppleScript countdown/alarm I Created to make it look like this where the text change color depending on the current time is <= alarmTime.

Is it something what you can use?

tell application "QDisplay"

set alarmHour to 16

set alarmMinute to 0

set messageSize to 80

set messageString to "Put your text here...."

repeat

set theDate to the current date

set the hours of theDate to alarmHour

set the minutes of theDate to alarmMinute

set the seconds of theDate to 0

theDate

set countdown to (current date) - theDate

set ss to countdown mod 60

if (current date) > theDate then

set mm to round (countdown / 60) mod 60 rounding down

set hh to round (countdown / 3600) rounding down

else

set mm to round (countdown / 60) mod 60 rounding up

set hh to round (countdown / 3600) rounding up

end if

-- If Current Date is > theDate

if (current date) > theDate then

set messageColor to "red"

if hh < 10 then

set hh to "+" & 0 & hh

else

set hh to "+" & hh

end if

if mm < 10 then

set mm to 0 & mm

else

set mm to mm

end if

if ss < 10 then

set ss to 0 & ss

else

set ss to ss

end if

else

set messageColor to "white"

if hh < 0 then

set hh to (hh * -1)

end if

if mm < 0 then

set mm to (mm * -1)

end if

if ss < 0 then

set ss to (ss * -1)

end if

if hh < 10 then

set hh to "-" & 0 & hh

else

set hh to "-" & hh

end if

if mm < 10 then

set mm to 0 & mm

else

set mm to mm

end if

if ss < 10 then

set ss to 0 & ss

else

set ss to ss

end if

end if

set countDownString to hh & ":" & mm & ":" & ss

set message to messageString & "

" & countDownString as string

end repeat

end tell

 

[mathias halén]

At this point you can just use

set messageColor to "black"

set messageColor to "white"

set messageColor to "red"

set messageColor to "green"

set messageColor to "blue"

set messageColor to "cyan"

set messageColor to "magenta"

set messageColor to "yellow"

and the color name must all be in lowcap with "". So to set it to default use set messageColor to "white"

// Mathias

[Rich Walsh]

This runs up 3 of my 8 cores to 100% when I test it in AppleScript Editor!

Can't you just use a Titles Cue with a 1s loop in QLab to do a countdown: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qlab/sSj7JCeOvYs/discussion?

Rich

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[mathias halén]

Add a delay just above the 

end repeat

and this should be much easier on our core.

[Rich Walsh]

On 22 Jan 2016, at 21:57, mathias halén <mathia...@gmail.com> wrote:

Add a delay just above the 

end repeat

and this should be much easier on our core.

I wondered if I could fix it by tidying up the code, but actually a small delay makes it hardly register on the processor:

-- NB: this script loops indefinitely; you need to implement it in such a way that you can stop it!

-- Declarations

set userAlarmTime to "19:30:00" -- Time format subject to localisation settings

set userMessageString to "Time to alarm…"

set userTextDelimiter to return -- What should go between the userMessageString and the countdown, eg: space, return

set userBeforeColour to item 2 of availableColours -- Colour of message before alarm

set userAfterColour to item 3 of availableColours -- Colour of message after alarm

set userMessageSize to 48

property availableColours : {"black", "white", "red", "green", "blue", "cyan", "magenta", "yellow"} -- All colours in QDisplay

-- Main routine

set alarmTime to date userAlarmTime of (current date) -- Asking for current date inside a tell block adds overhead (error -10004)

tell application "QDisplay"

set messageSize to userMessageSize

set messageColor to userBeforeColour

end tell

set colourChanged to false

repeat

set secondsRemaining to alarmTime - (current date)

if secondsRemaining > 0 then

set timeString to "-" & my makeHHMMSS(secondsRemaining)

else

set timeString to "+" & my makeHHMMSS(-secondsRemaining)

if not colourChanged then

tell application "QDisplay" to set messageColor to userAfterColour

set colourChanged to true

end if

end if

tell application "QDisplay" to set message to userMessageString & userTextDelimiter & timeString

delay 0.5 -- Less than 1 second allows the counter to get closer to realtime

end repeat

-- Subroutines

on makeHHMMSS(howLong)

set howManyHours to howLong div 3600

set howManyMinutes to howLong mod 3600 div 60

set howManySeconds to howLong mod 60 div 1

return padNumber(howManyHours, 2) & ":" & padNumber(howManyMinutes, 2) & ":" & padNumber(howManySeconds, 2)

end makeHHMMSS

on padNumber(theNumber, minimumDigits)

set paddedNumber to theNumber as text

repeat while (count paddedNumber) < minimumDigits

set paddedNumber to "0" & paddedNumber

end repeat

return paddedNumber

end padNumber

Hopefully there's some useful methods in there that can be extrapolated to any kind of time string manipulation…

I haven't tested it beyond proving it basically works, I think.

Rich