Sending text from Izzy to an iPad

simon

I'd like to send text from Isadora to an iPad so that a performer can read the lines having searched the forum it sounds like Lemur OSC might allow me to do this... has anyone done this and if so what do you recommend?

bonemap

@simon said:

text from Isadora to an iPad

This is possible using TouchOSC and the following patch with Javascript

loadjs2.6.1.izz

You might find @eight post on this forum last year interesting:

best wishes,

bonemap

Skulpture

Yeah OSC is really easy to set up and works great.

gapworks

@bonemap what would receive the text on the iPad then? there is no text fields in touch osc. because i would need the same thing for a project. black BG on iPad receiving text for an actor to read

Michel

@gapworks

The label v or label h can receive text.

bonemap

@gapworks said:

receive the text on the iPad

Hi,

I have taken a screengrab of the TouchOSC editor window next to an 'OSC transmit' actor in Isadora. The transmitter is targeting the address of 'label1' in TouchOSC. In this patch the "Get Scene Name' output is being sent to the iOS device and appears at 'Label1' when the Isadora scene changes. On the iOS device the text that reads 'BRAINWAVE' in the touchOSC layout is addressed (Brainwave 1/label1/) and will change to the text sent via Isadora's 'OSC Transmit'. I hope this helps.

Best Wishes

bonemap

simon

@bonemap thank you this, it is working great for me with TouchOSC. I couldn't get the Javascript patch to work but have got it working with the data array actor.

bonemap

@simon said:

got it working with the data array actor.

Great! It is much the same principle.

Best wishes

Bonemap

barneybroomer

I like to work the other way around, getting text from "a device"(laptop/mobile phone) into Isadora. So far that is not working with the OSC listener. See text , but can't use it further down the line with Text Draw or something

Michel

@barneybroomer

it does definitely work the other way around. If you set the OSC Listener type to text you can then pass it to the text draw actor.

barneybroomer

Hi Michel,

Thanks for the post. I ended up with a second Izzy on a windows laptop (ooooh if some people read this hahaha) and got it working with 45 OSC streams. I don't get it to work with multi transmit, maybe text can't be send with that.

Michel

@barneybroomer

You are right, just tested and it does not work with OSC multi transmit. Not sure if this is a bug or meant to be. @Mark?

Best Michel

tomthebom

@barneybroomer said:

So far that is not working with the OSC listener. See text , but can't use it further

Not much luck here seeing any text from my iPhone... Communication works, I can send text to an OSC element as "label1", but I can not read the text back into Isadora, since "label1" can not be triggered into the stream setup of Isadora and therefore does not get a channel number. What is the trick to communicate with a "label" element? Best regards, Tom

Michel

@tomthebom

Well is this not more a problem of TouchOSC If you can't trigger a text element?

Best Michel

tomthebom

Usually I let Isadora detect OSC inputs automatically.
Any slider or button does work, because I can adjust them and they get recognized by Isadora.

Since I can not "adjust" a label, I tried to add a channel manually for "/1/label1".
But without luck… What is the trick here? What am I doing wrong?

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Michel

@tomthebom

You are not doing anything wrong. A label in touch OSC is static and does not send anything.

Best Michel

tomthebom

@michel said:

A label in touch OSC is static and does not send anything.

I thought so. But are there actually any options to get text of of OSC?

Michel

@tomthebom

Not as far as I know TouchOSC only receives strings but can't send them. I guess what you want to do is send a prepared text with a button press, right?

if you use the free software from Bitfocus called Companion (https://bitfocus.io). When you launch the app you select the ip address of the GUI interface don't use the localhost if you want to use your tablet or smartphone. Now you can add a new instance by category "Generic-->Generic OSC". You then configure the IP address and port of the software you want to control. If Isadora is on the same computer use 127.0.0.1 and the default port would be 1234. Then you go to buttons and click on one of them. You can now labe the button (button text) and add a "add key down/on action". Choose osc: Send String. Now you can set the OSC path (or leave the default) and the string you want to send. Do this for all buttons. Then take your smartphone or tablet and type your ip 192.xxx.xxx.xx:8000/tablet.html. There you go.

Best Michel

tomthebom

@michel

Wow! That is quite an answer! Thanks a lot. I will try to look into this.

Best regards and a good weekend ;o)

Tom