Qlab /go{cue_number} problem

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I am having a Devil of a time understanding why a certain type of OSC message is not working.
I am trying to trigger a cue in Qlab. I have two machines and I use one as a master and one as a slave. When I press a go button in my TD network, it reads the current cue from the master and sends a go cue to the master.

The problem has to do with sending the cue to the slave.
If I send the command explicitly, op('oscout2').sendOSC('/go',['4']), it works perfectly. However, when I get the current cue from the master and try to send the command to the slave in any other way, as in, op('oscout2').sendOSC('/go',[cueNumber]), nothing happens. cueNumber is a string I pull from a select like this, cueNumber = op('select1').text.

I can print this to the console and I know I am getting the right cue number. I have tried a number of things like cueNumber = "'"+op('select1').text+"'" to get a string with literal quotes. No matter how I format the string, Qlab will not respond when the cue number is anything other than a string literal in the list.

Is there something I’m missing? I mean, there must be. I cannot see how you couldn’t use a string variable rather than a string literal.

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Hi @geofgibson,

could it be that there are newline characters or spaces or tabs in that string? .text will fetch everything.

Can you try:

cueNumber = op('select1').text.strip()
op('oscout2').sendOSC('/go',[cueNumber])

to remove any of these?

cheers
Markus

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Brilliant! text.strip() did the trick. Thank you so much.