run all fade cues up to selected targeting a running audio cue

[Paul]

for Rebecca from Facebook

Sometimes in theatre it is useful to be able to (easily) run all the fade cues targeting a particular audio cue, so as to get to the "current level" in rehearsals.

Here is a script which does this, this version handles fades in groups, has better error checking and gives info about previous fades to the user. May not for Object audio.

hope this is useful to some people.

-- run all fade cues up to currently selected cue for running audio cue

-- put this on a hotkey (or OSC/MIDI) trigger

-- may break if more than 1 audio cue running

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.5" to tell front workspace

set LevelDetails to 0 -- maximum number of audio col levels to report, set to 0 for only "main" fade level 

-- get the cue Id of the currently selected cue

set selCue to last item of (selected as list)

-- if group selected get the first fade cue inside

if q type of selCue is "Group" then

set currentFade to first cue whose q type is "Fade" and parent is selCue

else

set currentFade to last item of (selected as list)

end if

-- sanity that we actually got a fade cue!

if q type of currentFade is not "Fade" then

display dialog "you did not select a Fade cue!"

return

end if

-- keep this for later

set selFadeName to (q number of currentFade) & space & (q display name of currentFade) as string

-- get the cue Id for the selected fade cue; this is how we know when to stop

set ccId to uniqueID of currentFade -- last item of (selected as list)

-- find running audio cue

try

set audiocue to first cue whose (running is true or paused is true) and q type is "Audio"

on error errMesg

display dialog errMesg with title "No running audio cue"

return

end try

-- get a list of the fade cues which target this audio cue

set fadeCues to every cue whose cue target is audiocue

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space

set results to {}

repeat with fadeCue in fadeCues

if uniqueID of fadeCue is equal to ccId then

-- we have reached the selected fade so we're done

exit repeat

else

-- run the fade and wait for it to finish

start fadeCue

-- comment the delay if you don't mind the auditing fades overlapping (may not be what is wanted)

delay (duration of fadeCue)

-- rest of this is getting about info about fades to give to the user

if LevelDetails is greater than 0 then

set newLevels to {}

-- this is possible too much information!

repeat with col from 0 to LevelDetails

set newLevel to (getLevel fadeCue row 0 column col) as integer

if newLevel > -60 then -- don't include non-set levels which have default of -60

-- set end of newLevels to col & "=" & ((getLevel fadeCue row 0 column col) as integer) as string

set end of newLevels to col & "=" & newLevel as string

end if

end repeat

-- joint all the level details together

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ", "

set newLevelsInfo to (newLevels as text)

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space

set end of results to (audio fade mode of fadeCue) & " fade " & (q number of fadeCue) & space & (q display name of fadeCue) & linefeed & tab & newLevelsInfo as string

else

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space

set newLevelsInfo to ((getLevel fadeCue row 0 column 0) as integer) as string

set end of results to (audio fade mode of fadeCue as string) & " fade " & space & ((getLevel fadeCue row 0 column 0) as integer) & space & (q number of fadeCue) & space & (q display name of fadeCue) as string

end if

end if

end repeat

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to linefeed

display dialog "now ready to run " & (q display name of fadeCue) & linefeed & "Previous fades" & linefeed & (results as text) as string with title (q display name of audiocue as string)

end tell