DAT information in Movie-in TOP

Hey there,

One simple question.
Is it possible to import the DAT information (in these example the root-mapping off the movie file) to as Movie-in TOP.

The idea is to create a switch thats change the rootmapping off the moviefile in the File input from the Movie-IN TOP.

Ive put a example file in the attachment.

Thanks :smiley:


movie select.toe (28.4 KB)

Looks like you’re in 077, so you would use this:

tab("path_to_operator_here", 0, 0)

Things to note:

Make sure you start and end with BACK TICKS and NOT single quotations, that messed me up for a while.

As well, tab() looks at tables, and by setting 0, 0, it looks at point 0, 0 on the table, or in the case of a text dat, it grabs the text.

In your case you would put:

tab("null1", 0, 0)

From wiki:
derivative.ca/wiki077/index.php?title=Tab(

Happy scripting!

Hi Elburz,

Thanks for the feedback.
Iam working whit TD 88. Make that à different?

Is It possible to make à small example so I can see what you are meaning.
You can use the example TOX in the attachment.

That would be great. Working whit DAT is à new level of working whit TD for me :confused:

Example below:
dat_example.toe (3.82 KB)

Thank you so much for these information and example.
It works :wink:

Do you no where I can find some tutorials ore documentation about these expresions :stuck_out_tongue:

For tscript look here:

derivative.ca/wiki077/index. … :Scripting

But I highly recommend just jumping into learning Python and checking the wiki here:

derivative.ca/wiki088/index. … ory:Python

If you want to learn Python, I found this great:

codecademy.com/tracks/python