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Subject: Re: Am I the only nitwit on this list ?
From: Fokko van Duin
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:12:43 +0100

At 11:27 +0100 04-12-2002, Geoffrey Dyson wrote:
Well I have to admit I'm stumped. I've been using lighting boards since 1979. I've been using computers and namely Macs since 1985. I've been using LCEdit II since 1999. So I don't really consider myself a computer nincompoop. But four times now I have installed LCEdit + to try and see how it works. And four times, after having spent hours at it, I have given up frustrated and annoyed. Not only does the manual not supply an answer when I get stuck but I can't even get past creating the first lighting effect. All the following ones just seem to erase what I created previously.
It sounds to me you do replace to the same cuelist/step, instead of add. I assume you did use v3.01 as it has a (small) section for theatre people?


Furthermore what is worse, twice I have had a hell of a time trying to reinstall LCEdit II firmware, which repeatedly and insistently refused to upload.
LCedit v3.01 should do a firmware upload without any problems. What OS and Mac are you using? Did you try another PhoneNet cable?


So what can be done? Have you entertained the idea of rewriting the manual? Or rethinking the interface to make it a tad more intuitive?
We working on both, that means we will try to make a tutorial (for theatre and normal use) and we try to improve the human interface each version. LCedit+ v3.02 (to be released soon) will have again a number of improvements.


Don't get me wrong, I love the Lanbox and am absolutely delighted with reliabillity and ease of LCEdit II and profoundly hope that LCEdit + will overcome its shortcomings but at the moment I just can't work it.
LC+ software has so many more features then LCII, but it is a bit more complex. We try to come as close as possible with the simplicity of LCeditII without loosing features which other users require.



Am I the only nitwit on this list ?
I don't think so, see previous thread <http://www.lanbox.com/support/Talk-Archive/msg-00719.html>

BTW Fixed steps and split fades are now possible with the LCX and LCM.

Regards,

Fokko van Duin,                     Creators of the LanBox-LC
CDS advanced technology bv,         DMX lighting controller.
http://www.cds.nl/                  http://www.lanbox.com/

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