Alcorn Mcbride V+ series, User Manual

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WinScript User’s Guide
Communicating with Alcorn McBride Show
Controllers
When configuring ports to communicate with other Alcorn McBride Show
Controllers, you can use AMI Product Wizard to gain access to resource names
in the external unit. Alternatively, you can access external resources by their
index number. See the
Event Reference later in this manual for more
information on events you can execute in a remote unit.
To configure a port to communicate with another Alcorn McBride Show
Controller, choose
Resources | Ports…
, right-click on the desired port, and
choose AMI Product Wizard . Then, choose the script for the desired external
Show Controller from currently open scripts or choose another one by clicking
on
Browse…
Entering LCD Strings
Strings of text that can be displayed on the LCD Display of your Show
Controller can either be entered manually in the appropriate Data column of a
Display event or as an “LCD String”. An LCD String can be addressed by its
name in a
Display
event, but a manually entered string must be retyped in a
Data column every time you wish to use it. For more information on manually
entering strings into an Event, see S
equence Editing .
To delete a desired string, press F5 , or CTRL+D .
To insert a desired string, press
F6
,
CTRL+Y
, or select the
Insert
key.
To move from cell to cell, press the
Tab
key or
Enter
, or the arrow keys.