Re: [LCtalk] Lanbox questions

[Marc Thomas]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Fokko van Duin wrote:
> At 17:28 +0000 11-02-2007, Marc Thomas wrote:
> > 1) How to you grab a scene if you're not in edit mode?
>
> Not, I thinks it's disabled in the single line Editor on purpose, as when 
> values are still changing (e.g a fade, or next step), it could store very 
> wrong values.
>
>
> > Can you grab the DMX output values, and paste them into a cue?
>
> No.

Any chance of this being added as a feature, on the understanding that if 
you grab while a fade is running you get what you deserve? Perhaps 
allowing cut & paste from the DMX output monitor window could be one way 
to implement it.


> > I see there's a "Grab DMX Data" option on the Layers menu, but its always 
> > greyed out (and what's it for, if not this?)
>
> It's for the very old LCII with grabber firmware.

Fair enough!


> > 2) Colour Scrollers
> >
> > I have 16 frames on each scroller (0 to 15), and have created an LCedit+ 
> > profile for them with correctly coloured pannel buttons. However, using the 
> > buttons doesn't work reliably. If I click on frame 0, the DMX value 
> > generated is 15 which is part way through frame 0. I need it to output 0.
>
> If you want a single value you must create a button -only- for a single 
> value. The in-between values can be set to no button.

Ok - this is probably my misunderstanding of the profile editor. I'll 
experiment a bit more.


> > 3) Edit bug?
> >
> > When you live edit a cue step and then Store the cue list, the box seems to 
> > re-run the cue, which is fine.
>
> ??? No, it should not do that. What kind of connection (USB or TCP), and what 
> computer type are you using?

I'm glad you pinned this one down. For the record I'm using a Dell laptop 
running Windows 2000 SP4, connected to LCX via ethernet.


Best Regards,
Marc