Show script possibility

[Carl.]

was showing a tech around Qlab yesterday. He mentioned that a great addition would be the facility to load in a physical copy of the show script into it and have qlab cues jump to that part of the script.

Is this likely to be possible. I guess it's a kind of Addition to the notes field.

Carl

[micpool]

Open a pdf of your script in QuickTime Player 7

Use this script

-- page number required must be the only thing in notes for this cue

tell front workspace

try

set thecue to last item of (active cues as list)

set thepage to the notes of thecue

set thepagetime to (thepage * 75) - 75

end try

end tell

tell application "QuickTime Player 7"

try

set current time of front document to thepagetime

end try

end tell

Workspace, demo video and screenshot attached

Mic

[Sam Kusnetz]

I believe the only proper response to this is: hot damn, Mic.

Best
Sam

micpool

April 4, 2015 at 11:04 AM

Open a pdf of your script in QuickTime Player 7

Use this script

-- page number required must be the only thing in notes for this cue

tell front workspace

try

set thecue to last item of (active cues as list)

set thepage to the notes of thecue

set thepagetime to (thepage * 75) - 75

end try

end tell

tell application "QuickTime Player 7"

try

set current time of front document to thepagetime

end try

end tell

Workspace, demo video and screenshot attached

Mic

On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 2:20:59 PM UTC+1, Carl. wrote:

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Carl.

April 4, 2015 at 9:20 AM

was showing a tech around Qlab yesterday. He mentioned that a great addition would be the facility to load in a physical copy of the show script into it and have qlab cues jump to that part of the script.

Is this likely to be possible. I guess it's a kind of Addition to the notes field.

Carl

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[Steve Lalonde]

+1

[Carl.]

I second Sam!

HOT DAMN!!!!

Mic you da man!

[Carl.]

Do you load this script into qLab direct? 

When i try opening either your attachment or cut and pasting your script into my existing workspace I'm getting an "ERROR: A property can't go after this identifier"

Carl

On Saturday, 4 April 2015 14:20:59 UTC+1, Carl. wrote:

[micpool]

That's odd

I've just tried it on 3 machines with 3 different operating systems and it' fine.

Do you mean if you open the example  .cues file I attached to the post it decompiles with the error straight away?

Mic

[Carl.]

Seems so,

This is what I get when trying to open your cue file directly.

Carl.

On Saturday, 4 April 2015 14:20:59 UTC+1, Carl. wrote:

[micpool]

The only way I can get that error is by changing the application j name of QuickTime Player 7

Can you open a pdf in Quicktime player.

Is the application name of Quicktime Player 7, as shown on the left of the menu bar,  on your machine exactly the same  as the application name in the script?

Mic

[Carl.]

Yep.

Can open the script in Quicktime Player 7. It also seems to be named correctly (see screenshot).

Im wondering if anything is blocked (script wise) on my mac here.

Carl.

On Saturday, 4 April 2015 14:20:59 UTC+1, Carl. wrote:

[micpool]

Curiouser and curioser,

Try this in applescript editor and you might get a clue as to what is happening

tell application "QuickTime Player 7"

set current time of front document to 750


end tell

[micpool]

Carl

I have now replicated your problem on a machine that has never had QuickTime Player 7 installed on it before.

To get it working i copied QuickTime Player 7 from it's default installation in applications/utilities to the normal applications folder.

It now works wherever QuickTime player is located.

Don't know why that sorted it.

let me know if it worked for you

Mic

[micpool]

And just to complete the thread.

Although the  current QuickTime Player will not open pdf's, if you open them in QuickTime Player 7 with a Pro License, you can save them as self contained  movies that will open in current QuickTime Player. (All pdf documents, in either version are 8fps movies, with each frame being a pdf image.)

However, 'current time' in applescript returns completely different values in each version, so to use it with current versions of QuickTime Player, the script becomes:

-- page number required must be the only thing in notes for this cue

tell front workspace

try

set thecue to last item of (active cues as list)

set thepage to the notes of thecue

set thepagetime to (thepage * 0.125) - 0.125

end try

end tell

tell application "QuickTime Player"

try

set current time of front document to thepagetime

end try

end tell

The ideal app for your requirements would be a full pdf editor with comprehensive scripting. I haven't found one, but if one existed you could do neat things like press a hotkey in QLab and have QLab insert the current cue number and name, with a yellow highlight, in the script, at the text cursor position.

Mic

[Dave "luckydave" Memory]

On Apr 5, 2015 11:04 AM, "micpool" <m...@micpool.com> wrote:

> The ideal app for your requirements would be a full pdf editor with comprehensive scripting. I haven't found one, but if one existed you could do neat things like press a hotkey in QLab and have QLab insert the current cue number and name, with a yellow highlight, in the script, at the text cursor position.

You're looking for Skim:

http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

[Chris Ashworth]

Saw this thread over the weekend and wondered how hard it would be to hack together a little PDF viewer that responds to OSC commands.

Here is the result of perhaps about 45 minutes of work (plus more for making stupid Xcode compile some older code properly):

https://github.com/Figure53/QView

Direct download link here:

http://figure53.com/downloads/QView.zip

It’s as simple as it sounds, and don’t expect polish, but it’s a fun proof of concept.

Usage:

1. Drag a PDF on to the window to view it.

2. Send OSC messages to port 60000.  Use this format:

/goto/page/number

Might be useful?

-C

[micpool]

Fantastic, but is there any reason it needs to be compiled for  OS 10.9 and above?

Mic

[Chris Ashworth]

Ah, you know, I don’t think so. Just recompiled targeting 10.8 and updated the pre-built version. I haven’t tested it outside of 10.10, but, it… *should* work...

[micpool]

Thanks, that build works fine in 10.8

Mic

[micpool]

On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 8:33:00 PM UTC+1, luckydave wrote:

You're looking for Skim:

http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the tip.

The page displayed in Skim can be controlled from Qlab  with:

tell application id "com.figure53.qlab.3" to tell front workspace

set thecue to last item of (active cues as list)

set thepage to notes of thecue as integer

end tell

tell application "Skim"

select first word of page thepage of front document

end tell

And you can put a box ready for a text note where you want to position a note for a cue and use something like this to type the q number, q name and "GO" into it using something like this on a hotkey.

tell application id "com.figure53.qlab.3" to tell front workspace

try

set thecue to last item of (selected as list)

set theqnumber to the q number of thecue

set theqname to the q name of thecue

set thetext to "Q" & theqnumber & " " & theqname & " GO"

end try

end tell

tell application "Skim"

activate

end tell

tell application "System Events"

keystroke thetext

end tell

tell application "QLab"

activate

end tell

Obviously, if you are going to be regularly having a pdf editor as the front application for adding notes, and therefore the focus for keyboard input, it's really important you have a MIDI or OSC remote for QLab control, as you can't rely on space etc. always being directed to QLab.

So lots of scope for controlling displaying and marking up scripts with Qlab control  with this and Chris's QView app.

And the QuickTime Player 7 method might sometimes be the best way, if you don't want to have a text editor open, but you want to automate the opening and closing of the text file from within Qlab. 

Mic

[Pierre-Luc Brunet]

Works fine in 10.9.

Fun stuff! :)

[Jeremy Lee]

Wow. Amazing idea! I’ll check it out!  Is it possible for it to receive “next” and “previous” page commands as well?

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