Variable information can be displayed on the screen via text or ticker objects. Basically, all types of variables are available for this purpose, but text and value variable are suited best. See also Using variables for control purposes.
Add a text object to a picture track or a ticker object to a ticker track. See also Displaying text via a ticker object.
Note: Text objects offer more design options and display text better but ticker objects have the benefit of making changed variable information immediately visible on the screen. Text objects are only updated when the text object is reloaded into the graphics memory, which might take a few minutes depending on the complexity of the show and the size of the graphics memory used for the images. The updated variable information of text objects should at least be available by the time the show is stopped and played again.
Right-click a text or a ticker object and select Properties.
In field Text you can enter the required text and add the variable information. For this purpose the variable name must be surrounded by curly braces, Example:
{Service Interval} hours until the next lamp change is due!
When value 28 appears for the Value In variable Service Interval the following information is displayed on the screen:
28 hours until the next service is due!
Instead of the curly braces containing the variable name always the information of the corresponding variable will be displayed.
Variable values can also be rounded. For this purpose the variable name is followed by a semicolon and the required number of decimal places. Examples: {Variable;2} causes the variable to be rounded to two decimal places. {Variable;-1} is rounded to the nearest ten, i.e. 10, 20, 30 etc. and {Variable;0} is rounded to the nearest whole number.
A Text In Variable can be connected to an RSS Feed in Avio Manager and this information be displayed on the screen. Before you can do that, however, you need to send the RSS feed to the Avio System using Avio Service Reading and displaying RSS feeds.