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  1. "Delete" node causes a crash. Ubuntu 64-bit

    I have had Nodebox crash on me repeatedly when trying to follow the "animation" tutorial. It always happens when I create a "delete" node (where the tutorial indicates "In order to remove the parts w…

    NodeBox 3 Kevin From the old forum

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    by Frederik

  2. Mac OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks problems

    After download NodeBox 3 from the site, after unzipped the file, the OS X 10.9.5 say: "Can not open "NodeBox" because it comes from a developer unidentified". What do I do now?.... (thanks)

    General Discussion Andrea From the old forum

    2 replies

    by Frederik

  3. Huge CSV

    Hi, I'm working on a project that has a huge CSV file (1.3 Go), and I'd love to use NodeBox, but I can't seem to make it work. I already augmented the memory in Info.plist <string-Xms512m -Xmx4096m -…

    NodeBox 3 Raymond Lanctot From the old forum

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  4. SVG manipulation?

    Is there any ways to animate a SVG import whilst changing its entire look, very new to nodebox — thanks in advance if you could give some hints or suggestions it be a big help cheers people.

    Show your Work ronaldm258 From the old forum

    1 reply

    by lucasnijs

  5. Getting the color of a shape

    Hello! I love nodebox! As far as I can tell, it's impossible to get the color of a given shape. I need to import an SVG and manipulate it. Am I missing something? Thanks, Will Urmston BFA Graphic Des…

    NodeBox 3 wurmston From the old forum

    1 reply

    by Frederik

  6. Displaying JSON

    Hi, I'm trying to get a JSON url and display the tweets contained in it ( ideally animated) . I can sort of do it, but I want to sort of create a "group" of username, tweet, date etc and then rotate…

    NodeBox 3 Tom Smith From the old forum

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    by lucasnijs

  7. Working with Animation - as far as we got..

    Today my students and I started the Working with Animation tutorial and although the result was nice we didn't made it to the end in a decent way. Is is possible that the tutorial isn't complete?

    Show your Work Bavo Van Hecke From the old forum

    3 replies

    by lucasnijs

  8. Image Quality

    My vectors in Nodebox are pristine, but whenever I export the file, I end up losing image quality. Any reason for this?

    NodeBox 3 madie From the old forum

    3 replies

    by madie

  9. Image capture questions

    Hi all, I am an absolute beginner in Python but I've been reading about pygame and such libraries, and I've dared trying to implement it as a node with no success... so I was wondering if anyone, wit…

    NodeBox 3 Rodolfo Oliveira From the old forum

    2 replies

    by Rodolfo

  10. combining pie chart with text label

    I'm trying to create pie chart that takes values from two columns in a CSV (Name, Percentage), and have the pie generated and the label rotated the degree length to match up with the pie wedge. I hav…

    NodeBox 3 chris From the old forum

    4 replies

    by chris

  11. connect the dots

    I'm working on a number of connect the dots and am trying to 'burn' in the point numbers so I wouldn't have to manually add them later. Any thoughts?

    NodeBox 3 chris From the old forum

    5 replies

    by chris

  12. basic mapping

    I picked up some xyz triplets and made a simple surface map; see samples bellow, one made with quickgrid and the other with nodebox.

    Show your Work Rodolfo Oliveira From the old forum

    6 replies

    by Rodolfo

  13. Cannot Resize Canvas

    I downloaded NB 3.0.39 for Mac and am having two related problems. When I would create an image in previous versions and export to PDF, the PDF image was cropped to the exact outer boundary of my ima…

    NodeBox 3 Charles McLane From the old forum

    5 replies

    by Charles

  14. Scale Does Not Scale Stroke (Border Width) of Rect

    In NB3 I have created a 400 x 400 rectangle with a 20 pixel stroke border. I use the Scale node to scale height and width by 50 %. The rectangle shrinks to 200 x 200 but the stroke appears to remain…

    NodeBox 3 Charles McLane From the old forum

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    by Charles

  15. re: libraries

    I made these as demo, each uses two custom libraries.

    NodeBox 1 ugajin From the old forum

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  16. calculate textsize for fixed width

    Where it is quite esay to do in nodebox 3 I have difficulties making the same behavior work in Nodebox 1: I want text blocks to have different font sizes, so that they align vertically. See the attac…

    NodeBox 1 dreerr From the old forum

    6 replies

    by Frederik

  17. linking data in an ellipse shape

    Hi, I have data containing a number of concepts and the paper (represented by a number) they appear within. For example: transparency, 15 transparency, 3 data, 15 data, 12 I am trying to visualise th…

    NodeBox 3 Judie From the old forum

    5 replies

    by lucasnijs

  18. Creating a canvas Node

    Is it possible to create a Node that uses canvasHeight & canvasWidth? I'm trying to create a background node. thanks

    NodeBox 3 MikeMike From the old forum

    1 reply

    by Frederik

  19. User Input

    All, Is there a way to get input from the user (for example to allow users to set a toggle that contols whether a list is sorted or not?

    General Discussion Jay Gill From the old forum

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    by Ruth

  20. Image from text

    I actually made this from the 1st column of the earth quick data provided in the samples.

    Show your Work Ruth Kinyanjui From the old forum

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  21. Kaleidoscope generation

    http://vimeo.com/92950693 <iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/92950693" width="500" height="500" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen</iframe <p<a href="http://v…

    Show your Work Ruth Kinyanjui From the old forum

    2 replies

    by Ruth

  22. How to automatically generate a png export from a .ndbx file in a command line (with a script)?

    Hello, I made a nodebox 3 file (.ndbx) that generates a dashboard of a production status. It is based on csv files that change every day. For the moment, I have to open each day the nodebox file manu…

    NodeBox 3 Gilbert Perrin From the old forum

    2 replies

    by Frederik

  23. Hi. I found a bug. I'm sending you my files.

    Hi! I've already posted here as JamesWlf but I lost my password and also the email I was using, so I created this new identity.Thanks again for creating these tools. They are wonderful. I've been pla…

    NodeBox 3 kenzenichinyokiai From the old forum

    3 replies

    by Frederik

  24. connect the dots

    I'm playing around with a connect the dots graphic, and want to render the point numbers onto the image... I'm figuring it has something to do with count, and then sending that to a textpath, but I h…

    NodeBox 3 chris From the old forum

    1 reply

    by Frederik

  25. Wishlist: Suggestion for showing names of nodes

    Hi Frederik, Thanks for being so active on this forum - still loving Nodebox! Is it possible to allow us to name nodes anything like the way shown in the attached illustration? There appears to be ro…

    NodeBox 3 Tim Holmes From the old forum

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    by Frederik

  26. Gallery Projects

    There are all those wonderful projects in the gallery section of the website yet there are no tutorials on how any of the work was generated. It would be a nice starting point for new learners of Nod…

    General Discussion nka From the old forum

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    by Frederik

  27. Nodebox

    Hello, I have ported 'canvas.js' from Tom to RapydScript. It's not the first time I am tryin to do this, but this time, I think it's the good one You can see the preview here. http://salvatore.python…

    General Discussion Salvatore From the old forum

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    by Salvatore

  28. movie export/ syphon support

    hi! The movie export -on osx- has a little bit mount of options - fps, usable codecs like photojpeg or png with transparent background. Ho you have plans to deal with this issues? Cos i really like y…

    NodeBox 3 vargasz From the old forum

    6 replies

    by vargasz

  29. NB1 parallel bezier curves

    Hello everybody, I’m very new to nodebox 1, I’m using it for experimental type design purposes, slowly coming to grips with the application. I’m wondering if it is possible to make a parallel path of…

    General Discussion iambobbytannam From the old forum

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    by Frederik

  30. pdf export problem

    here is what nodebox throws at me when I try to export my project to pdf: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at com.itextpdf.text.pdf.ByteBuffer.appendi(ByteBuffer.java:187) at com.itextpdf.…

    NodeBox 3 bartosz.tomczak From the old forum

    9 replies

    by Frederik