Right Click in X-Y Take Window crash Beta

[RichterMC]

Hi,

when I right click in a X-Y Take Window of a Moving-Light the Beta crash and close.
It occur every time.


Best
Gernot

[simonB]

Thankyou Gernot, this will be fixed in the next release

[RichterMC]

I´m now using Beta "9 Jun 2010" and this bug is fixed,
Right-Click now opens the "Take setting".

With the Beta "9 Jun 2010" I found a new problem in the "Take-Window".
When I "take" a moving light to the upper half of the grid and release it I can´t "take" it again to
change the position.

[simonB]

I can't reproduce this one. Just to verify:
1. You select one of the take buttons
2. you drag the target to the top of the xy grid
3. You select a different take button and adjust the position
4. You go back and select the original take button and you can no longer adjust the position

[RichterMC]

Yes Simon you got that right.
You don´t even have to selcet a differend "take button", just put the target in the upper half of the grid and release it.
Now try to move it again...

I also have some new findings to this problem.
After I resize the "Take Window" the Problem went away.
From time to time the issue returns, then I resize again and it will work again.
Unfortunately I can´t see any pattern, if I have new infos on it I will post them here.

I have a other question to the "Take Window".

Is it possible to put the "Take Window" in some kind of live mode ? Like this :
The "Targets" in the grid of the "Take Window" move like the X/Y of the Moving Lights they belong to, so the position of the light beam is alway updated in the Take Window.
When I like to move a Moving Light manually by Hand I select it and this Lamp will no longer follow x/y commands from Scenes or Switches but only react to the Take Window.

Best Gernot

[simonB]

I will keep a look out for the XY window bug.

Regarding the live use of the XY grid. The generated take scenes are set to LTP which means hat the will take priority over any other movement channels. Another option would be to go into the button settings and change it to ADD are SUB so that the position you select on the grid will always be relative to the current position of fixture. this would be useful if you had a moving pattern and wanted to manually raise the lights towards the audience whilest the pattern is still playing.

The live update of a target will not be possible using the page panels, however a live XY panel could be a good idea for the future.

[RichterMC]

O.K. , now I found a way to reproduce this, I used latest Beta from "Jun21 2010" :

- Open a new blank show
- Patch, let say, 4 Moving Heads "Geni OBY-5"
- Don´t change anything in the wizard, kept it default
- Open Dimmer and Iris of all four Fixtures
- Now open the preprogrammed Take Window (don´t resize this Window!)
- "Take" Fixture 1 to the upper half of the grid
- "Take" Fixture 2 to the upper half of the grid
- Go back to Fixture 1 and try to "Take" it.

Regarding the live use of the XY grid. The generated take scenes are set to LTP which means hat the will take priority over any other movement channels. Another option would be to go into the button settings and change it to ADD are SUB so that the position you select on the grid will always be relative to the current position of fixture. this would be useful if you had a moving pattern and wanted to manually raise the lights towards the audience whilest the pattern is still playing.

Yes, I tried that, but it´s not what I´m looking for.
I want to "pick up" the lightbeam of the Fixture in the real world from it´s current position.
When I use a "Take button" the lightbeam of the fixture will immediately jump to the position of the "Target" in the Software or when I use ADD or SUB it jumps relative.

The live update of a target will not be possible using the page panels, however a live XY panel could be a good idea for the future.

Yes, would like to see it in the future.

[simonB]

good find! it will be sorted in the next release