Closed acidfrost closed 3 months ago
thedist
commented
2 years ago The current selected index of a list is the variable input_X_selected, and the name of the currently selected item is input_X_selected_name.
For example, if input 5 is a list named listinput, I could use the variables:
$(vmix:input_5_selected, ${vmix:input_listinput_selected_name), etc... and those would display the index of the current thing selected, and the second variable would be the name of that.
acidfrost
commented
2 years ago Hi,
These variable don't work. It's not a list put a powerpoint input, similar to a slide show. The deprecated feature works perfectly and displays the number of the slide currently live. Your 2 variables displays $NA:
thedist
commented
2 years ago The variables input name should be lowercase, eg input_powerpoint_selected_name
acidfrost
commented
2 years ago Yes lowercase or input number has the same $NA issue.
input_powerpoint_selected_name or input_5_selected_name doesn't work.
thedist
commented
2 years ago I'll look in to this, as that should work and did during my previous testing when we deprecated that feedback.
acidfrost
commented
1 year ago Hi! The latest release of Companion 3.0 still has the same issue. Is there an update? The deprecated feedback is gone from this version, so there is no alternative. Thank you
thedist
commented
1 year ago I've put off trying to properly implementing displaying of PowerPoint and Photos input types current item as I've been hoping that vMix would properly fix their API so that it would properly give details of the items.
For example with a list input, the API provides each and every item in the list (which is why it's the recommended way to handle a series of pictures or videos) which allows Companion to easily store all of the items and the currently selected as variables.
the PowerPoint and Photos input types on the other hand don't act as a list and so don't say how many items there are, what each item is. If for some reason you MUST use these input types and can't use List I can add this to the list of feature requests for the next feature release, but it's not a high priority as vMix themselves don't fully support these input types and the List input is more commonly used.
thedist
commented
3 months ago I've added support in the latest update to the module that's currently in beta, and will soon be in Companion v3.3.0 stable, to add some more support for the currently selected item using the input_X_selected variable for photo and powerpoint input types. That being said unfortunately even after this time vMix's API itself still doesn't provide the full capabilities of what List input types to,
Under feedback, there is the option to display the slide name from a slideshow or powerpoint input. It mentions being deprecated and to use a variable instead, but no variable exist in the variable list. The deprecated feature seems to still work. Any variable planned?