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• Font: Click 

  • Select Browse to locate and select a font for the text. You can use any TrueType or OpenType font. When selecting a font file, you cannot browse to the font files in the Windows fonts folder. You will need to copy the font

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  • file to your Desktop or another location and then select it using the Browse button in BrightAuthor.

  • Select Reset to System Font to reset the font to the default

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Important

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  Font size:

  • Select Automatic to fit the text to the height of the text field, or select Fixed point size to enter a value for the font size (1 - 500).  

Note that the default parameters of a text item will differ depending on how it is created:

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Clearing the Background Image removes the image from the zone. The text fields will appear directly over the video. By temporarily including a Background Image taken from the video, you can better position the text fields in relation to the video playing behind the Images zone.

Examples

Live Text Menu Board

This presentation uses a Live Text State linked to a Live Data feed to display the pricing for a menu board. The feed will update prices and changes you make to it will be shown within moments.

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Installation and Configuration

1. Log in to your BrightSign Network Account via the Web UI.

2. Go to the Create tab and select Live Data.

3. Select Add a new feed and give it a name. 

4. Enter the data below, using one set of Title/Description fields for each item/price pair. 

   1. Download the Baxter_MenuBoard_Demo.zip file from the link below and unzip it to a location on your PC.

   2. Open the project file named baxterburger720_v2.bpf

   3. Go to File > Presentation Properties > Data Feeds and Add Data Feed.

   4. Specify a Feed name.

5. Select Live Data Feed  and choose the Live Text feed created in Step 4.

6. Adjust the Update Interval to 30 seconds and click OK.

7. Select the "Live Text" zone and double click on the Live Text state.

8. Under the Data Feed Name field, select the name of the Live Text feed you created in Step 4. Repeat this process for all 19 text items in the Live Text state. You can use the Next button to advance through all the Live Text items quickly. Once all 19 fields are associated with your Live Text Feed, select OK to close the Live Text window.

9. Save the presentation and publish it your player using any publishing method. The presentation will begin running and download the dynamic data from the Live Data feed.

Updating the Live Text

To edit the Live Text pricing:

1. Log in to your BrightSign Network account via the Web UI.

2. Go to the Create Tab and select Live Data.

3. Select the Live Data feed linked to the presentation.

4. Edit the pricing of any of the fields and select Save. The pricing on the display will update within 30 seconds.

Using UDP messages with Live Text

Displaying/updating Live Text fields using UDP messages

1. To create the required number of User Variables, go to the File > Presentation Properties > Variables tab and click the Add Variable button to create each user variable. Then click OK.

2. Drag and drop a Live Text state onto an interactive playlist.

3. Select User variable for the item Type, then select the corresponding User Variable(“cell1” in this example).

4. Click Add Item to add more text widgets to the Live Text canvas, and then assign the remaining User Variables to these widgets. Click OK when you’ve added all the required widgets.

5. Under the Media Library > events tab, drag and drop the UDP Input event onto the Live Text widget.

6. In the UDP Input Event window, enter "<any>” (without the quotation marks) into the Specify UDP input field.

7. Select Transition to new state.

8. Under the Advanced tab for the UDP Input event, select the Assign input to variable? option and make sure that the Input specifies variable option is selected. Click OK to publish the presentation to the player.

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Sending UDP messages

You can use any application capable of sending UDP messages to display your UDP messages on screen. This example uses Hercules to send UDP messages to the networked player(s) playing the above presentation.

1. Open Hercules and go to the UDP tab.

2. Under Module IP, enter the player IP address and port 5000 (the default UDP sender and receiver port).

3. Under the server settings make sure to deselect Server echo, Redirect to TCP Server, and Redirect to TCP client.

4. Under Send, enter “cell1:new message” and click Send to display “new message” on the player. The string consists of "User Variable:the message".

5. You can also use one UDP string to update multiple Live Text items at the same time. To do so, you need to separate each message with a “!!”. For example, you can enter “cell1:my message!!cell2:my other message!!cell3:yet another message” and click Send.

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