Re: [LCtalk] Wing / programmable keys

[Jason Brameld]

> When used properly this is indeed a big enhancement, when the jogwheel 
> is assigned to the arrow keys it makes it ideal for positioning 
> movingheads and setting statics. And in combination with the shift key 
> it speeds it up as it would with normal arrow keys.
> With the arrow keys assigned to the jogwheel it also makes it a lot 
> easier to scroll through long lists (as the mouse scrollwheel doesn't 
> work in LCedit)

I really like this idea


> The only mistake I made was to create the macro's using the Xkeys 
> program, instead of creating macro's in LCedit and assigning them to a 
> key. I ended up with long keystrokes in the xkeys program with a few 
> going wrong causing an exeptional error in LCedit, not nice!
> I worked around those 'wrong keys' during the show so everything went 
> well.  For the futur I know now to use LCedit more instead of the Xkeys 
> keystrokes.
>
> What I found to be a boundary in this setup is a short-key to things in 
> the advanced panel, for example to manually set the transparency I 
> needed to use the mouse to click the field first, and than jog to the 
> wanted position.

Maybe some consideration could be given to expanding the keyboard 
shortcuts in future versions to make this more powerful - If this 
included some degree of 'standardisation' of presents for moving lights, 
colours , position, gobos etc in the definition files then you could end 
up with something that is as powerful as a hog or Strand 520 (which the 
lanbox is - almost) and as easy to use (which the lanbox certainly 
isn't).


> Live I had the frontlights under a key so I could manually set the 
> frontlights as needed. I made it to select the frontlights layer and 
> select the fixtures acordingly. So one press on a button and I could 
> immediatly jog to the desired value.
>
> I think there is much more conveniance with this.
> Does anyone use a similar setup, and if so, how do you use it?

I would be very interested to hear of anyone else who has tried this, 
and how they got on.

Jason