No problem, glad it's helpful!

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We're so glad to hear that! Sounds like a really cool (and timesaving!) application of the technique :)

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Our pleasure! A little bit of Python goes a long way!

Haha there's always one more thing to add! It wouldn't be hard to use another Timer CHOP using a similar technique but with a faster cycle time that could be turning on a line or similar.

@@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ I have added a blinking cursor. Let me know if I can sent the file.

I mean to be able to type the sentences line by line, when hitting the start button

@@corlangerak4310 Great question! You could try in the Timer CHOP callbacks, after the equal sign, you can change the right side of equal sign to: op('text1').par.text + op('source').text[cycle]

Try something like that and let me know. It should get close because it will already start by taking the existing text from the Text TOP and then it will only add the current new letter of the cycle you're on. It might need some tweaking but it's a good start

It is possible to achieve this effect, however it is more complex! You can specify the alpha of a text string independently using a Specification DAT with the Text COMP. Each letter will have to be treated as a separate string (meaning it will have its own row in the DAT) and manually positioned via the x and y columns.

Great question! I should have mentioned it in passing, if you have an operator selected you can hit A on your keyboard to toggle the viewer between active and not active state. You can also click on the + button in the bottom right corner of the operator to get the same effect!

If you're looking to reveal columns of text one by one, you might be better off following a different approach. The Select DAT along with the Timer CHOP should give you the functionality you're looking for. In the Select DAT's parameters, if you set the Select Cols parameter to "by Index", the End Col Index parameter can be used to sequentially add/remove columns of the original data. Controlling this parameter with the timer's timer_fraction channel (with the range adjusted by a Math CHOP) could allow you to add more columns of data over time. Hope that helps!

@@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ thank you very much, and is it ok to have rows typed in turn for each column? or is it just for the columns to appear in turn?

Sounds like you could use the Evaluate DAT for this. It has a handy feature of being able to take a second input table into it with expressions. In the second table if you only give it 1 row and 2 columns, it will copy that expression for all other rows, which is cool. So in the first cell you could put something like me.inputCell.val and then in the second column cell put len(me.inputTable[me.inputRow, 0].val)

This should then make the output of the evaluate pass everything in the first column to the output while in the 2nd column it counts the number of characters in the first row!

You can find a lot of the tricks like that about how you can get the me.inputTable and me.inputRow on the wiki about Evaluate DAT here: docs.derivative.ca/Evaluate_DAT

@@TheInteractiveImmersiveHQ thank you so much! I'm looking forward to trying these out first thing in the morning tomorrow! I love the tutorials by the way, great work, keep it up!

@@maxmainio7762 Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching :)

Can you tell us what kind of error it is? If you use Alt + T you might be able to see the error in the textport, if not you can click on the red circle with the X on the top right corner of operator with the error. It will have a message written in the middle.

Can you let me know what error you're seeing? Make sure you have all the write brackets and colons and similar to not throw any errors from spelling mistakes.

The first things I like to check for are the most simple (which are often very easy to overlook - everyone's been there): are you hitting start on the Timer CHOP? Is the Play toggle switch parameter on the Timer set to On? Is the Cue switch on the Timer set to off? Have you set the Length parameter on the Timer to 0.5? Are you receiving any errors? You can bring up the Textport with Alt + T, most errors will pop up there. From there, double check that you have renamed your Text DAT to _source_ and added some text to it. Then I'd check for spelling errors in the Python expressions/code. Make sure you've set the Timer's _Cycles_ parameter to On and the _Maximum Cycles_ parameter to the expression _len(op('source').text)._ Within the Timer CHOP callbacks, the line of code under the *onCycle()* function should read _op('text1').par.text = op('source').text[0:cycle]_ Another thing to make sure of is the alignment of the line of code in the callbacks. It should be directly aligned on the left with the return function on the following line (1 tab over from the left edge). Python has very specific requirements about spacing. Take a look at these first and let us know whether any of them solve it (or if you're still running into issues)! Hope that helps :)