Hello! I purchased a copy of G-Force Professional for use with my church, and I'm trying to write a script that will display a slideshow of images in a particular order. The idea is to overlay the lyrics that our praise band is singing onto G-Force's visualization and project that up front instead of the boring PowerPoint slides we're using now. I tried using the StartTextOverlay function, but I don't think that's going to offer me fine enough control over the appearance of my text, so for now I'm making the images in Photoshop and using StartImageOverlay instead.
Anyway, the tricky part is this: how would one manually control when G-Force transitions from one image to the next? There's no way to know exactly how long it will take the praise band to sing a particular verse, so I can't go with pre-timed image sequences, like G-Force scripts prefer. I'm thinking I'm going to have to bind a key to a custom function or script. Can I just throw all the images in a folder and have G-Force iterate through them alphabetically, or am I going to have to make an ordered list of the intended images in a script? Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Manually stepping through a slideshow of images
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Manually stepping through a slideshow of images
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How many images will you need? You can make one script for each image up to about 36, Control 0-9, A-Z. With the standalone version there are a few others too like Contol-Space and some of the arrow keys.
Beyond that I don't know. The scripts do use timing for each thing displayed. So if the time varies between verses I don't see how more than one item per script would work.
I was just trying Shift-Y to bring up the next image but it doesn't seem to be in alphabetic order.
Beyond that I don't know. The scripts do use timing for each thing displayed. So if the time varies between verses I don't see how more than one item per script would work.
I was just trying Shift-Y to bring up the next image but it doesn't seem to be in alphabetic order.
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There are two other ways of naming/calling scripts. One is to start from another script. But without a wait for keypress command that won't help you. The other way is for the script name to match a song name. This won't be much fun but you could copy an MP3 file to a number of new names like song01_01, song01_02 etc By using G-Force with say WinAmp you can use the play next song key to move to the next mp3 and cooresponding script. Now you wouldn't need to actually play the songs thru any speakers, the idea is just to get the matching script name to run.
If G-Force could show the toolbar on one monitor and show full screen on the other on a two monitor system then you could use the toolbar to cycle thru the images directly with the toolbar. But G-Force can't do that as far as I know. Maybe using a large window for G-Force instead of full screen might work.
If G-Force could show the toolbar on one monitor and show full screen on the other on a two monitor system then you could use the toolbar to cycle thru the images directly with the toolbar. But G-Force can't do that as far as I know. Maybe using a large window for G-Force instead of full screen might work.
chkman wrote:There are two other ways of naming/calling scripts. One is to start from another script. But without a wait for keypress command that won't help you. The other way is for the script name to match a song name. This won't be much fun but you could copy an MP3 file to a number of new names like song01_01, song01_02 etc By using G-Force with say WinAmp you can use the play next song key to move to the next mp3 and cooresponding script. Now you wouldn't need to actually play the songs thru any speakers, the idea is just to get the matching script name to run.
If G-Force could show the toolbar on one monitor and show full screen on the other on a two monitor system then you could use the toolbar to cycle thru the images directly with the toolbar. But G-Force can't do that as far as I know. Maybe using a large window for G-Force instead of full screen might work.
I use my TV as a second monitor and the toolbar works just fine from my computer monitor. I cannot get GF to go fullscreen on my tv ( what I do is to stretch the window to fit ) but if I wanted too I could set GF to fullscreen on my computer monitor and use the toolbar from my tv.
GF looks exactly the same whether you stretch the window to fit an overscanned monitor ( like mine is, my ati card allows overscanning ) or have it set to fullscreen. it can be done
over scanning allows me to hide the border of the GF wondow beyond the edge of the screen so GF looks fullscreen.juxtiphi wrote:
GF looks exactly the same whether you stretch the window to fit an overscanned monitor ( like mine is, my ati card allows overscanning ) or have it set to fullscreen. it can be done
Hello! This is my first post here!chkman wrote:If G-Force could show the toolbar on one monitor and show full screen on the other on a two monitor system then you could use the toolbar to cycle thru the images directly with the toolbar. But G-Force can't do that as far as I know. Maybe using a large window for G-Force instead of full screen might work.
I have my laptop setup with dual monitors, an external (a proyector, my 46" plasma tv, or a Pc monitor) and the laptop monitor. I enable the second monitor as extended desktop and play Gforce full screen on it. On my laptop screen I use the toolbar and it works great. I have my visuals for everyone to see on the screen and I control the music and the toolbar from my computer without it interfering with my visuals, I guess the ability to use two screens depends on your graphics card, but Gforce does work fine with two monitors
Hello! This is my first post here!chkman wrote:If G-Force could show the toolbar on one monitor and show full screen on the other on a two monitor system then you could use the toolbar to cycle thru the images directly with the toolbar. But G-Force can't do that as far as I know. Maybe using a large window for G-Force instead of full screen might work.
I have my laptop setup with dual monitors, an external (a proyector, my 46" plasma tv, or a Pc monitor) and the laptop monitor. I enable the second monitor as extended desktop and play Gforce full screen on it. On my laptop screen I use the toolbar and it works great. I have my visuals for everyone to see on the screen and I control the music and the toolbar from my computer without it interfering with my visuals, I guess the ability to use two screens depends on your graphics card, but Gforce does work fine with two monitors