I have a few questions for you lovely people which I'll post seperately to allow people to use the subject heading.
Is there a way to change the default time on a show which will then change all the times on cues already recorded as default ?
At this stage, the default time is not referenced data. So, the quick answer is ... no.
We've argued this topic a number of times. No resolution, so we've made no changes to the behavior.
Thoughts all?
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Anne Valentino
Eos Product Line Manager
I wouldn't mind a find/replace time feature for global cue time changing, but in most instances, blind updating works just fine for me.
However, I would like to see global Auto-Mark timing implemented :)
How about an "if then" macro. An example: If cue [x] thru [y] is time [5] then time [3]. Similar to McKernon's search and replace function in Lightwright.
And now I have just made an enemy of the people in charge of the code.
Oh joy...
Turn macros into a scripting language....ugh!
But seriously, it's an interesting idea which we have thought about a lot. Expanding our query functionality and recording that into a macro would be how we might go about that. A number of other ways of implementing a solution to this type of feature are out there too.
Anne hasn't put it on a feature list at this point, but keep your eyes open in the future for something.
-D
Derek Blume
Software Engineer
Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
Research & Development Controls Department
hmm..how many times would this situation ever come up? I can't see devoting more code to something like this.
I like Brian's if-then idea - but I do realise this could potentially be a massive programming nightmare!
georgeg: hmm..how many times would this situation ever come up? I can't see devoting more code to something like this.
I believe this actually came up in a plotting session just before a technical rehearsal - the LD wanted to leave the time at the default of 5 but wanted the option of changing all of the default 5s if it turned out to be too slow when it came to actually rehearsing it onstage.