Alcorn Mcbride V+ series, User Manual

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Event Reference 5-17
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Built-In Serial Events
Built-In Serial Events send a custom message or a specially formatted value of a
State Variable out a Serial Port.
To Do This… Use This Event…
Send a custom serial message out a port MessageOut
Send the value of a State Variable formatted as an
ASCII Decimal out a port
SendAsciiDec
Send the value of a State Variable formatted as an
ASCII Hexadecimal out a port
SendAsciiHex
Send the value of a State Variable formatted as an
ASCII Octal out a port
SendAsciiOct
Send the value of a State Variable out a port as one
binary byte
SendVar
Set the value of a State Variable in another Show
Controller equal to the value of a local State Variable
PutVar
Ramp a DMX Channel DMXRamp
Generate a Break level on a serial port
Break
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MessageOut
Sends a custom serial message out one of the serial ports. The message is sent
in the protocol defined for that port, but the Show Controller will not wait for an
ACK or other response.
Important
Extra bytes may be added by the Show Controller to the front
and/or rear of the message depending on the protocol selected for that port.
Event Syntax
Event Data1 Data2
MessageOut Name of Port Name of Data String or Literal Message*
*See “Entering Data Strings” in Section 4-8.
Example #1
Event Data1 Data2
MessageOut Port3 DataMsg
Sends:
h4C h56 h00 h0D
If DataMsg is:
h4C h56 h00 h0D