Seeking "kinetic typography" capability in au3

[qwert]

Whiteboard videos—also known as kinetic typography—have been popular for years, and there are online services and costly software for creating them. ( video example )

I’ve often thought AutoIt3 would be a good basis for implementing a simple, table-driven, ”moving text” sequence. Plus, it would be easy to have a graphic as a backdrop, which is also popular.

But I haven’t been able to locate anyone’s attempt at this, although I did locate two 8-year-old scripts that provide some foundation elements for it:

But before I start trying to build something, I’d like to ask: does anyone happen to know of a better starting point that these two scripts?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[scintilla4evr]

Challenge accepted.

I wrote an UDF, that may "fit": Motion Graphics UDF (it's still in development)

Edited July 11, 2016 by scintilla4evr

[qwert]

Thanks for posting.  It looks very promising.  But in my attempt to run the basic example, I get syntax errors with the ()() elements like ($oObject.x)($iTime).

It's probably due to an oversight on my part, but I can't see it.

[scintilla4evr]

50 minutes ago, qwert said:

Thanks for posting.  It looks very promising.  But in my attempt to run the basic example, I get syntax errors with the ()() elements like ($oObject.x)($iTime).

It's probably due to an oversight on my part, but I can't see it.

What version of AutoIt you used to run the example?

[qwert]

v3.3.14.2

[scintilla4evr]

I think it's the problem with Au3Check. I'll add #AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_AU3Check=n to all examples, when I'll post an update (in a few minutes)

[qwert]

Can someone clear this up for me?

I've downloaded the 0.0.4 version from the example library.  The examples DO run properly.  And I can compile any of them without errors.

But whenever I run SyntaxCheck, I get all the original errors.  I'm not at all familiar with the ()() syntax for objects.  I've never seen such a thing.  Can someone point out where documentation can be found?  And are the Au3 Wrapper features just a little behind the times?

Thanks for any help.

 

 

[scintilla4evr]

4 hours ago, qwert said:

I'm not at all familiar with the ()() syntax for objects.  I've never seen such a thing.  Can someone point out where documentation can be found?  And are the Au3 Wrapper features just a little behind the times?

The ()() syntax can be used for COM objects. Some of them have a 'default' method, which can be called by writing ($oObject)(arguments...), where $oObject is your COM object. In AutoItObject , a library used by MoGraph UDF, you can declare a "__default__" method, which can be called using the ()() syntax. Actually, you can write:

($oObject1.object2)($a, $b, $c)

like this:

$oObject1.object2.__default__($a, $b, $c)

 

[qwert]

Thanks for the explanation.  I do follow what you're saying, yet I'm unsure of how to resolve the error detections.  Or should I just use the functions and leave it to a future version of SyntaxCheck to catch up with current technology?

Either way, thanks for the UDF.  I think I'll be able to build something useful with it.

[BrewManNH]

Just ignore the syntax errors unless they're happening when you're running the script. Or, disable using Au3Check when you run the script.