Re: [LCtalk] user interface issues in LCedit+

[Matthijs van Duin]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:27:12AM +0200, PragmaLab wrote:
> It seems like if you patch a device on 2 DMX-addresses (range of), this 
> info (double patch) is not a property of the fixture, but a property of 
> the application. When you delete the fixture (un-patch), the info still 
> exists in the application

Well, it only seems like that because.... that's actually the case.  The 
patching is part of the LanBox globals, rather than per-fixture 
settings.  In the past, the settings available in the "Patch" tab were 
only accessible via the Patch Editor.

The problem of entries refusing to disappear has to do with how the 
ability to patch via the fixture setup has been hacked in:  It maps the 
DMX channels you request to the fixture, but anything else is left 
untouched.  This means you can only remove a mapping by overwriting it.

Note that this behaviour isn't actually harmful:  If you have no use for 
the DMX channel, then it doesn't matter how it's mapped.  Once you do 
have use for that DMX channel you'll map some other fixture to it, and 
the old mapping will be overwritten and disappear in the old fixture.

I agree though that this behaviour feels a bit odd, as if the editor is 
just ignoring or defying you.  Maybe I should detect when the user is 
trying to get rid of a mapping, and map those DMX channels to light 
channel 0 (meaning unused - fixed to value 0).

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