Clarity
Desktop Clarity
Operator Manual
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instant control but you can hold the Flash button down to 'scoot' the fader. See section
34.1 for User Preferences.
3.22
PROGRAMMING WITH THE VX20 WING
The VX20's programmer section assists programming by providing hard controls for the main
programming functions.
3.22.1
Trackball
The trackball is multi-purpose and can be used for Programming and as a computer mouse.
Pressing either
Intens
(Intensity),
Position
,
Colour
or
Beam
turns the track ball blue
and causes the trackball to vary the Intensity, Position, Colour or Beam values of the
selected fixtures in the current programming session.
Pressing the
(mouse) button turns the trackball green and causes it to act as a mouse
for the computer running Clarity. When
(mouse) is selected the
Ortho
and
Fine
buttons act as the
Left
and
Right
mouse buttons respectively.
The Intensity, Position, Colour, Beam and Mouse buttons are all interlocked so that selecting
any one button deselects the previous button.
3.22.2
Programmer Buttons
The programmer buttons have the following functions:
Next, All, Prev, None, HiLit
(Highlight)
, Blind, Clear All, Release All
: Perform
identical functions to the same buttons on the Programmer window's toolbar in the GUI
(Graphical User Interface). See section 21 for details.
o
The
Clr All
button lights when any attributes have been grabbed in either
programmer.
o
The
Rel All
button lights when any playbacks are active on the output.
Hint: Inadvertently pressing
Rel All
will blackout all Playback. To prevent this you
can set a “User Preference” to require both
Function
and
Rel All
to be pressed
together to release all playbacks.
Ortho
: (Orthogonal) Holding
Ortho
whilst moving the
trackball
restricts the trackball
output to only horizontal or vertical movements, whichever occurs first. When in mouse
mode (above) it acts as a
Left
mouse button.
Fan
: When multiple fixtures are selected, holding
Fan
whilst moving the trackball will
fan the values of those attributes. (The same as holding [Ctrl] (PC) or [Cmd] (Mac)
when dragging with the mouse in the GUI).
Fine
: Holding
Fine
whilst moving the
trackball
gives finer control. (The same as
holding Shift when dragging with the mouse in the GUI).
When in mouse mode (above) it acts as a
Right
mouse button.
Clear All
Beam
Release All
Fine /
Right Mouse Button
HiLite
Intensity
Position
Trackball
Fan
Ortho /
Left Mouse Button
None
Al
l
Prev
Next
Mouse Mode
Colour
Blind