Re: [LCtalk] Live Edit bug - not fixed

[Matthijs van Duin]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:19:47AM +0000, Marc Thomas wrote:
> I've been running the beta LCedit+ 3.4.1 on a show this week. I had 
> several re-occurances of the "live edit bug" yesterday.

Based on your description it doesn't sound like it's the same bug, but 
we've also noticed ourselves that there are still issues in live 
editing, as usual pertaining to synchronization between the state of the 
lanbox and the contents of the cuelist editor.


> The first one happened after coming out of edit mode

That's kinda odd, since nothing happens when leaving edit mode: no Go, 
no SetChannels... it just sets the layer back into Run mode.


> The lighting state which came up appeared to be completely random, and 
> the two MAC500's reset themselves. I have not plotted in any fixture 
> resets, so I can only assume the DMX output data is getting corrupted 
> somehow, and it just so happened to affect the reset channels.

That's genuinely odd... I can't imagine any way of that happening.


> If/when it happens again, I'll make a note of the cue number & send in 
> a copy of the show.

That probably wouldn't be very useful.  If possible however, try to 
record this info when you notice the bug again:

1. what was the last action (or last few actions) you took before you 
noticed things were wrong?

2. what state is the cuelist editor in? (loaded, modified, stored)  what 
did you last do to the selected step?  is the scene data shown right?

3. what state is the layer in?  do the channels match what's supposed to 
be in the cuelist?

If you can find steps to reproduce the bug then that would be ideal of 
course, but even if not, the above information may help us pin it down.

In the mean time we'll continue working on the issues we've noticed 
ourselves in the live editor.  Hopefully we'll be able to get it right 
this time (the live editor is the trickiest part of LCedit+ currently)

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