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Advanced WinScript Programming 6-23
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Label Time Event Data1 Data2 Data3 Comment
00:00.10 IfOff input3 End It must have glitched!
00:00.11 Start MainShow
End 00:00.00 Nop
Tight Control and Awareness
In some cases it is not important if a show goes down for short periods of time.
This is especially the case of exhibits or kiosks in museums and the like where
the electronics may be a small part of the overall show. For example, let’s say
your museum has a Pepper's Ghost effect that transforms a wooden cigar store
Indian into a video still of a Native American, and the effect fails during the day.
One of the janitors at closing may leave a message to the maintenance people
that “Elijah went down sometime today”, and the effect will get fixed by
morning.
Most of the time, however, inactive show elements are just not acceptable;
someone needs to be told immediately when all or part of the show fails, so that
it can be brought back up as soon as possible.
Equipment in most shows consists of a main Show Controller and other devices
connected it. With WinScript, tight control of most peripheral devices is quite
easy. If several of our Show Controllers are connected together, awareness of
what all Show Controllers are doing is just as important. If you send a
command to another box, you want to be sure it was carried out.
For example, let’s say you have a V16+ sending light cue commands to a DMX
Machine. The best way to make sure the cue was carried out (the sequence
executed) is to send a message back to the V16+ to confirm it. There are several
ways to do this, but this one seems to be the easiest.
V16+ Script
SendingLightCue
Label Time Event Data1 Data2 Data3 Comment
00:00.00 Off ConfirmFlag
00:00.00 Start Dmx Cue3 Run Cue 3
00:00.05 IfOn ConfirmFlag Confirmed
00:00.05 Start Dmx Cue3 Try Again!
00:00.10 IfOn ConfirmFlag Confirmed
Failed! 00:00.10 Start Cue3Failed No good
00:00.00 Goto End
Confirmed 00:00.00 Start Cue3Success Good
End 00:00.00
ConfirmIt
Label Time Event Data1 Data2 Data3 Comment
00:00.00 On ConfirmFlag
DMX Script
Cue3
Label Time Event Data1 Data2 Data3 Comment
00:00.00 Start v16+ ConfirmIt Turn on ConfirmedFlag