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    Read text from a file : I wrote a plugin

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    • jhoepffner
      jhoepffner last edited by

      Personaly, I use a quicktime text movie, you can use belle-nuit subtitle software to translate .srt to quickTime text and then QuickTime 7 pro to obtain a QT movie. You can also write the QT text yourself, using text edit.

      Played in Isadora, you can activate the text track and use text/draw actor to screen it.
      If you need to slave it to entering timecode, as MTC, you can use MTC reader. If you need to slave to another movie, you can slave it via position
      I send you a patch in Isadora (pre-release version), with subtitles in text and QT.
      A little bit easier…
      Hope that helps,
      jhoepffner

      26cf11-testsubtitles.zip

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      • DusX
        DusX Tech Staff last edited by

        @djinoui 
        Have you tested the plugin on Windows 8 or 8.1?

        I have a project that is using it that now crashes shortly after the text read.. (on all installed versions. inc, both the stable release and pre-release)
        Strangely no error report is created, just a windows prompt that its crashed and windows will try to find a solution. 
        So debugging is a little slow.

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        • Armando
          Armando Beta Gold last edited by

          Wow Jacques. Very creative solution!!!!

          As always ;-)

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          • djinoui
            djinoui last edited by

            @DusX

            Yes, I just installed Windows 8.1 on VirtualBox, I'm also getting a crash. I don't have much time these days but I'll try to install VC++ and investigate about this.

            Computer: Asus N76VZ PC, Windows 7x64, Intel I7, 6G RAM, Isadora v1.3.1f06
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            • DusX
              DusX Tech Staff last edited by

              @djinoui 
              thats good to know..  I wasn't entirely sure it was the cause.

              If you get around to it I would be very grateful.

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              • djinoui
                djinoui last edited by

                After installing 1.5.3f25 (latest pre-release) on the W8.1 virtual PC, everything seems to be back to normal again.

                Could you please tell me if you still get a crash with this version?

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                • DusX
                  DusX Tech Staff last edited by

                  Yeah.. just did a quick test, and I still crash.. 
                  I will try to create a simple version for testing.. to make sure (the patch I have thats using it is pretty complex)

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                  • DusX
                    DusX Tech Staff last edited by

                    OK, spoke to soon... some fiddling.. and it works again.. I think it has to do with the init settings for the plugin. I didn't really change anything and its working, so I think that I simply saved a happy value into an input when I updated my user actor.

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                    • djinoui
                      djinoui last edited by

                      OK, keep me updated if you manage to reproduce the bug.

                      For what it's worth, I wouldn't be surprised if it was related to file encoding. Or even special characters in the input path.

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                        hobbyte last edited by

                        pretty cool actor
                        thx

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                        • jtoenjes
                          jtoenjes last edited by

                          Thanks for this plugin. It works great, even in 2017 with the latest version of Izzy! Just what I needed.

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                          • djinoui
                            djinoui last edited by

                            Glad to read this, as I didn't test it with Isadora 2! Happy VJing!

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                            • mark_m
                              mark_m @djinoui last edited by

                              @djinoui

                              @Woland @mark 

                              This readtextfromfile plugin is one I've utilised extensively in a number of projects.
                              Sadly, it doesn't work with Isadora 3.
                              Is there an easy way to update it, or recompile it, or whatever, so that it does?

                              I realise that there are other solutions available, but I do like this one :-)

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                              • mark
                                mark last edited by mark

                                @mark_m said:

                                Sadly, it doesn't work with Isadora 3.

                                 It does now. ;-)

                                I spent a hour on Benoît's plugin this morning and recompiled it for Mac and Windows. 

                                Now, I have an "official" file reading plugin in waiting in the wings, which I've been wanting to get out. (I've been consumed by making sure Isadora 3 runs well on Catalina fixes this past week.) It does not, however, have the char/file/line/paragraph option that Benoît's plugin has.

                                One thing that for sure wouldn't have worked in the old version: if you have a fie path that included non ASCII characters liek ü, ø, ç, etc, it would not have opened the file. I've fixed that by updating Benoît's plugin to handle Unicode file paths.

                                But there's a few things that caught my eye as I examined the code. I don't quite understand why he would send output text using CR/LF line endings when the source file is CR/LF, because Isadora's going to have trouble parsing that: Isadora uses CR as a line ending internally, due to it's MacOS origins. And it seems a little ineffecient to me to read the file every time you change a char/line/paragraph number. I guess that's no big deal for small files, but what if it was huge?

                                Anyway, these critique notwithstanding, here's are the usual caveats: I didn't write it, it's not official, it may crash, blow up, or allow evil clowns to enter your living room. I do not have much time to repsond if there are bugs but hopefully it will "just work."

                                The updated source code is included.

                                Enjoy,
                                Mark

                                read-text-from-file-v1.0.zip (FOR ISADORA 3, 64 bit!)

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                                • mark_m
                                  mark_m @mark last edited by

                                  @mark said:

                                  allow evil clowns to enter your living room

                                  That bit I don't have a problem with!

                                  @mark thank you so much for that hour. Well spent, in my humble opinion! And yes, I will enjoy!

                                   

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                                  • Woland
                                    Woland Tech Staff @mark last edited by

                                    @mark said:

                                    allow evil clowns to enter your living room

                                     Gimme!

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                                      A3SH last edited by

                                      Hi everybody,

                                      A nice coincidence that I was just working on a patch that could read texts from a file and just saw this forum thread updated a couple of days ago. I first tried the old plugin on version 2.6.1 of Isadora and later moved to Isadora 3 to try the new plugin Mark compiled. When I trigger the 'read' input Isadora crashes. Not always, but most of the times. Does anyone experienced this problem? Thanks!

                                      I used Isadora 3 on a Lenovo Y520, with Core i7-7700HQ, 4 cores, Windows 10, 16 Gig Memory and a GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card

                                      Best,

                                      Adri

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                                      • mark
                                        mark @A3SH last edited by

                                        Dear @a3sh

                                        Well, at least evil clowns didn't come into your living room. ;-)

                                        Seriously, not sure what could be going wrong. Can you .zip and post the file you're trying to read.

                                        That said, I'm on macOS Catalina compatibility duty for the next several days... so I may not be able to look into this immediately.

                                        Best Wishes,
                                        Mark

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                                          A3SH last edited by

                                          Dear Mark,

                                          I was running for the evil clowns the last couple of days, but I am back and managed to grap the file. I just tried it again and now it seems to work. I didn't change a thing in my project. But anyway, here is the file I used to test it. I can imagine that it makes finding the problem a bit difficult. Thanks!

                                          Adri

                                          Text File

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