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HOG – Version 3.20
It will automatically record a
Load View
into the first cue, so that when a macro is run the windows
are set up in the correct places for palette buttons and mouse clicks. This does mean that the windows
that are currently onscreen will be lost. If the macro does not contain any palette button presses or
mouse clicks then the
Load View
cue can be removed. If additional key presses are appended then
another
Load
View
cue will be recorded at the point where appending started. The
Don’t Store
View
option in the control panel window can be used to disable the automatic recording of desktop
views.
Wait For, Empty…
cues are added after key presses which initiate complex tasks, eg, a load view
operation, or a record operation. The complex tasks take a small amount of time to complete. The
Wait
For
command waits for the task to complete before proceeding with the next cue in the cuelist. The
subsequent cue in the cuelist will automatically be set to a halt cue.
Extra cues may also be added at the end of the cuelist to release any keys which were still being pushed
when recording stopped. Typically this is the
Pig
key since the
Pig
key has to be held in order to stop
recording.
Additional Functions
Load View
displays a desktop view. When editing the
Load View
cue you are presented with a
menu containing currently stored views. The view that is selected is copied into the cue, so it remains
the same even if the original desktop view is re-recorded.
Load Menu
updates the contents of the menu banks. This is captured at the point at which recording
was started. There is currently no method of editing the contents of this type of cue.
Wait For
is used to wait for a process that takes a substantial period of time, for example
Beacon
.
The Wait For cue adds the cuelist to a list of cuelists that are waiting, and once the process that is being
waited for has finished a ‘
Go
’ press is sent to the cuelist. The macro recording cue automatically sets up
the subsequent cue to be a ‘
Halt
’ cue, although there is no reason why the immediately subsequent cue
has to be the ‘
Halt
’ cue. If the
Go
button is pressed at any time then the cuelist proceeds as normal, and
is removed from the waiting list.
Message
pops up a warning box. The text used in the warning box is taken from the comment field of
the cue.
Beep
Not implemented.
Warnings On The Use Of Macros
Whilst macros provide users with increased functionality, they can also cause severe problems if misused,
possibly to the extent of causing the console to lock up. It is therefore recommended that you have a recent
backup of the show at all times.
Avoid recording key press sequences which leave the desk in an unstable state when replayed. For
example:
Consider the sequence
RECORD
,
Macro
, xx,
ENTER
. Whilst this does nothing when recording (you
can’t record another macro whilst recording), when run it will start a macro recording and leave it
recording once the macro has completed. The user may not notice that there is a macro recording for
quite a while, and all the time it is recording every key press made.
Macros have no intelligence; avoid recording sequences that access items that are likely to be moved or
deleted. For example:
Consider the sequence where a cuelist is opened by holding
Pig
and selecting an entry in the cuelist
director. Some edit operations are then performed on this cuelist. The cuelist is then deleted from the
cuelist directory, and the macro replayed. No cuelist window will be created since the cuelist no longer
exists, and all of the subsequent edit operations will occur on whatever it was below, possibly altering
the contents.
Users may also find that macro cuelists run faster than the desk can keep up with; this problem tends to
manifest itself as keypresses being missed out when replaying the macro cuelist. Adding a short wait time
in place of the “
Follow
On
” command will solve this problem. The size of the wait required varies
depending upon the number of things the desk is trying to do at once, and the complexity of the task
initiated by the preceeding keypress, but times of no more than half a second usually suffice.
Saving Macros
Since macros mimic user inputs and input devices vary between hardware platforms, ie. The HOG 1000
and 500 don’t have touchscreens whereas the WHOLE HOG II does, the HOG 1000 has more faders that
the HOG 500 etc, macros are not portable across the different hardware platforms. Macro cues that are
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