Livetime – NewTek LiveText User Manual
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This works as follows:
Assign a custom control key name and value that can be detected by either the TXT
Linker or Database Linker, as discussed earlier – let’s say you that a key named
mytitlepic01 is given the value D:\PlayerPics\Joe Gamestar.jpg. In this case, as you can
see, the value is the full file path for a specific image.
In LiveText, add an image to the current page (in the canvas pane), right-click it, and
select the key “mytitlepic01” from the drop-down menu – just as you would assign any
DataLink key to an object.
That’s all that’s required to configure the page for realtime image updates. Afterward, whenever
the Database Linker module returns a new value for mytitlepic01, the image displayed in the title
page will automatically be updated. For example, if the value for mytitlepic01 is changed to
D:\PlayerPics\Suzy Q. Champion.jpg, that new file will immediately replace Joe Gamestar.jpg.
Many of the default title page templates pages supplied with LiveText have stand-in (or
‘placeholder’) images all ready for you to replace with imagery of your own. These too can have
image keys assigned to them.
If you look at the entry for a stand-in image in LiveText’s Layers tab, you can determine which of
the several default files is used in a given title page.
You may find it useful to note the resolution for those images (to prepare images that will fit
perfectly). The file resolutions for the common placeholder images in LiveText 2 are as follows:
PLandscape_placeholder.png (936x586)
PLargePortrait_placeholder.png (521x578)
Portrait_placeholder.png (406x441)
4.6 LIVETIME™
Whether or not you have an external scoreboard system connected (and regardless of whether
you are using TXT Linker or Database Linker or not), a number of time-related options appear in
LiveText’s key insertion drop-down menu. Examples of these key names are Time, Date, and
variants on these – such as Date (YYYY). These keys are courtesy of LiveTime which allows you to
place clock and date objects that are updated in realtime on your title pages. When LiveTime
keys are displayed, the corresponding values are derived from the LiveText host’s system clock.
This provides many useful and creative possibilities.