OSC to Text

[Clay Benning]

Hi all,

We’ve been using QDisplay to show us the status of some console cues, but find it would be great to have QDisplay run on another Mac on our network (that isn’t running QLab) The cue status is then visible to others, in the pit for example. 

I’m sure smarter people than me could get AppleScript to trigger remotely over the network, but in the meantime, I hacked together a solution that allows you to send text via OSC to a remote floating window. The window runs as a stand-alone app on the remote machine.

I’ve include the app and an example QLab workspace in the the download link below. Hope someone else finds this useful.

https://bit.ly/3OjTylc

Clay

[micpool]

I couldn't get your  app to run. It reports as damaged

You can get QDisplay to work on a second computer.

First enable remote apple events in system preferences sharing

tell application "QDisplay" of machine "eppc://username:pass...@computernameAsShowninPreferencesSharingPane.local" --e.g my-computer.local (hyphens replace spaces)
    set message to "hurrah"
    set messageSize to 100
    set messageColor to "yellow"
    set timeRemaining to 10
end tell

There is a delay, presumably caused by the authentication handshake, so it's not suitable for tight cueing purposes, but for general info should be fine.

Mic

[micpool]

Here's a beta of an app, OSCDisplay  which is functionally identical  to QDisplay but is controlled by OSC

 

Download here:

https://we.tl/t-ZkX8OaBt5f

Port 8383

/message "Put Your Message Here"
/messageRGBA 1 1 1 1
/messageSize 50
/timeRemaining 10 

Right Click on App the first time you run it to clear security in the normal way.

Test thoroughly before using in a show critical environment etc.

There are a couple of differences. 

Message text can be any color, defined by /messageRGBA with  4 arguments, Red Green Blue and alpha, with values between 0 and 1.

Resizing the window scales the text, rather than cropping, so you can run the window full screen with smooth text outlines.

Mic

On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 1:09:20 AM UTC micpool wrote:

I couldn't get your  app to run. It reports as damaged.

[micpool]

Screen recording attached

[micpool]

This version uses even less CPU

https://we.tl/t-Ewl7dZb2HB

Mic

[Clay Benning]

Hmmm, sorry about that. Looking deeper, it appears to be an issue with Gatekeeper, and the fact that you need to code sign the app from a Developer account (which I don’t have) when it doesn't copy to the system over a local network. 

I’ve attached the Vuo project file for anyone who want to go to the extra step of compiling it to an app on their own system.

As usual, Mic has done a more elegant and faster solution that 99% of us could have achieved. Thanks Mic!

Clay

[micpool]

Mine was created in Vuo as well. It wasn't code signed either, which means that you have to show in finder and then right click to confirm you want to open it.

The problem with your download was different, as the pop up reported it as damaged.

Mic

[micpool]

Hi Clay

I made an app from your Vuo file (not code signed) and uploaded it to my server. It downloaded and  opened  fine 

It's here if anyone wants to try it

https://we.tl/t-JeOgvf8K0k

Best

 Mic