Digital Workshop

Working on a big project over the last couple of weeks with Opus 6, a couple of niggles have come up that might be an easy fix:

- I'd like to be able to QuickBuild / Paste Text style to a number of text boxes at once, instead of having to do one at a time.

- Within a timeline, if I use the Change Text Colour attribute, the custom colour picker doesn't work to choose a colour to change to.

- Could the Change Text Colour work over a period of time (like a fade from one colour to another)?

- Setting up the action "Disable an object": unlike other actions the objects are listed alphabetically, and I can't see which frames the objects are in. So it's difficult to find the object I want to disable.

- When setting up Show and Hide actions, it'd be easier to find what I'm trying to show or hide if I could choose whether to close the frame listings down (as it is, the contents of frames are opened up automatically, and cannot be closed)

- Fit to contents - this often leaves a text box at an odd number of horizontal pixels. Yet the text animations only work smoothly if the text box is an even number.

- Fit to contents on png files is often 1 pixel out.

- Text kerning. PLEASE.

Linda

Also, as I often have more than one project open at once, it'd make more sense to me if the undo/redo function was specific to each project.

Currently I can switch projects and decide to undo the last thing I did to it, only to find later I undid something on the other project instead.

Argghhh.... Linda

QuickBuild is extremely useful, if it was possible to copy/paste actions through this it would be even more useful.

I also noticed that text styles are not copied/pasted across.

Linda,

Don't know if this will help, but I use this to fade text colours. Can't see why it couldn't be adapted to take the start and end RGBs and fade between the two.

Mack

Mack --

I downloaded your example which appears to make a single Text Object fade from white text to black text. Why not just use Black text color and a Transition Fade of Simple? You can set the Transition speed to 3 seconds to make it fade in slowly. You must like to write Script. You could use a Timeline to make the Text Object Show, then Hide if you want it to come on screen then off if you want it to repeat, otherwise just tick the "Display for..." option and set the length you want.

OPUS offers a variety of ways to accomplish similar functions. That's one of its many strengths. I'm not fond of writing script, so I prefer using the built-in features of OPUS whenever possible. I'd really be interested in your use of this example.

Cheers Fred,

I would also use fade if the effect was simple but was trying to illustrate that you could achieve colour shading effects with text. I too love Opus because you can achieve many things in different ways - a sign I believe of a good program - but having programming since i was knee high to a grass hopper tend to look at solutions from a scripting perspective first

My use / experience of using this isn't with text but graphics for a Special Needs programme developing a piece of software that is based on that old kids game of hot and cold but the colour slides responded to position rather than time.

Having seen how effectively Linda uses timelines in her demos that she's uploaded - I can understand why she'd want this feature but thought that in the meantime this might be of use.

Mack