Re: [LCtalk] Working with 2 Universes

[Matthijs van Duin]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:31:21AM -0600, Philippe Amand wrote:
> - It would be great to be able to write more than 8 letters in the 
> comment window, I'm using some lines to describe next cue, so you 
> know what is going to happend. I've found that this is a good way to 
> work for theatre, but 8 letters is simply not enough to describe some 
> cues.
> Also why is it impossible to write symbols? (like % or # or ø etc...)

Every step consists of a command code and 6 data bytes.  A comment is 
just one type of command, so I have only 6 bytes available to store the 
actual comment in.  I was able to stretch that to 8 characters at 6 bits 
per char by limiting the comment to only 64 different characters: upper 
case (26 chars), lower case (26 chars), digits (10 chars) and two 
symbols, namely space and dash (-).

To really solve this, we need to be able to store arbitrarily sized data 
with any step, just like scene data is associated with scene-type steps.  
This is somewhere on the long-term planning, but I can't give any kind 
of time frame for it.

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Matthijs van Duin  --  May the Forth be with you!