Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 606)

606 Chapter 22 Shake-Generated Images
Examples 1:
To get special characters, such as umlauts, copyright symbols, and so on, use octal and
hexadecimal codes preceded by a \ (backslash). These codes can be found in UNIX with
the main page for “printf” in its special characters section. The following example was
provided by Thomas Kumlehn, at Double Negative. Copy and paste it into the Text node:
Auml=\xC4, Ouml=\xD6, Uuml=\xDC, \n auml=\xE4, ouml=\xF6, uuml=\xFC
\n Szett=\xDF \ntm=\x99, Dot=\x95, (R)=\xAE, (C)=\xA9
A good reference website for characters can be found at www.asciitable.com . (Thanks
to Christer Dahl for this tip.)
To use expressions, preface the text with “a :” (but without the enclosing quotation
marks).
All printed commands must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example, if you want
to print “Hell” from frames 1 to 10 and “o World” from frames 11 onward, enter:
:time<11?”Hell”:”o World”
Finally, you can also use full C formatting for your strings. This is initialized with “a : “at
the start of the text string as well:
: stringf(
“Red = %4.2f at Frame %03f”,
Grad1.red1, time
)
To append strings from another parameter, use something like:
in Text1.text: Hello
in Text2.text: : Text1.text + “ World”
%N Locale’s full month name: November
%x,%X Full date representation: mm/dd/yy
%y Year without century: 00-99
%Y Year as ccyy
Text Shortcut Writes
Text String Writes
My name is Peter My name is Peter
My name is %U If login = Dufus:
My name is Dufus
My name is %U.\nToday is %M.
%d My name is Dufus.
Today is Nov. 12
Mult red = {Mult1.red} Assuming the node Mult1 exists, and the red value is .46:
Mult red = .46