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Section 15 - User Screen
The user screen has been designed as a simple user interface for controlling a ShowMagic desk. It is
a full size screen and it utilises action buttons, but these buttons are 50% bigger on the user screen
to make it more suitable for use with touch screens.
Example:
To best explain how to use the user screen, and to introduce some other useful tips regarding using
action buttons and the scheduler, we will use a theoretical, simple application in which you have
been commissioned to install and program a ShowMagic system to run the lighting in a nightclub.
Here’s the brief:
•
The nightclub has some background lighting that needs to change automatically at different
times of day (early, mid and late evening) via the ShowMagic scheduler.
•
There is also an area that is used sometimes as a dance floor and sometimes as a stage floor
for artistes (singers, comedians etc.). Different colored par cans are used for illuminating the
stage area.
•
When the dance / stage floor is not in use the background lighting is controlled solely by the
scheduler.
•
When the floor is being used for dancing the background lighting continues to change as
scheduled.
•
When the floor is used as a stage however, the background lighting needs to drop down to a
dimmed level and stay there until the stage show has finished, and an appropriate
background scene is selected.
•
The club owner wants to be able to select the different lightshows for the floor area by
simply touching different options on a touch screen.
The user screen is ideal for this, and here is how it can be done:
1) Create the early, mid and late lighting scenes for the background lighting, drop them onto
action buttons, set their exclusive letter groups to
B
(for ‘background’), set the buttons to
On/Off
and then create your schedule using these action buttons e.g. Early Background
In
at
19:00:00
,
Mid Background
In
at
21:00:00
and so on.
Please Note:
You only need to set an
Out
time for the last of these action buttons in each scheduled day,
because as a scheduled
B
group button comes on, it automatically turns off the previous
action button set to group
B
.
2) Create a lighting scene that dims the background lighting (for when there is a stage show)
and drop this onto an action button. Set its exclusive letter group to
B
and set the button to
On/Ex
. The
On/Ex
setting means that when it is run before a stage show, it turns off any
other background scene and no background lighting scenes can then be run (even if
scheduled) until the stage show is over and this scene is manually turned off.
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