How to mark cues that have been actioned/played

[Freddy Masoe]

First time poster, apologies if this is answered already - I've tried 30minutes to find the answer. 

Background: I use QLab to DJ sports matches by playing specific songs on my cue. I place all songs into a CART and click as I go when required. I have multiple carts depending on the mood of the song, moment in the match.

Problem: I need to mark which songs I have played so I don't play the same song twice. 

NB: Yes I can place audio cues in a LIST and play sequentially, but sometimes I need to play specific songs and I have less than 2 seconds to play - hence CART view.

Hope someone can help.

Thanks Team!

[micpool]

In QLab 5 

Select all cues

in the basics tab of the inspector set a color and select altercation in the pop up menu

reset with the workspace reset key

Demo screen recording attached

Mic

[micpool]

After Action (not altercation!)

[Freddy Masoe]

Thank you so much Mic. 

I've got QLAB 4 so I probably need to get 5 to use this feature. 

Cheers!

[micpool]

Sorry hit post prematurely on previous reply!

Yes, this feature was introduced in QLab5.

You can do something similar in QLab4, ot in 5 if you want to disarm the cue rather than color it, but it is quite a lot more work, so best considered for long running projects.

If you do it in a particular order it's quite straightforward

e.g to disarm played cart buttons

Lets start with a 3x3 existing cart with audio cues

Select all the cues, Cut them and paste into the Main cue list

With the cues selected make a start cue from the menus or icons, select option 2 to place each start cue after each selected cue

Now make  disarm cues in the same way

Select ALL, and then select only start cues

Drag these to the cue cart in the sidebar (If you cut and paste them to the cart the disarms will lose their targets, you must drag them to move)

Go back to the cue list, select all audio cues, and in the basics tab select auto continue

Go to the cart and play the cues, as each Cart is pressed the audio plays, and the cart button disarms

You also need a means of re-arming all cues

To do this make a timeline group and assign it a hot key trigger.

Put arm cues targeting each cart you want to reset in the group

You can change the color instead (or as well), but as there is no  color cue, you have to create  network or script cues, manually e.g

/cue/1/colorName "red"

or

set the q color of cue "1" to "red"

or you could use a script to create them ( and the start cues) automatically 

Mic

[Jason James]

Great tutorial.  A good example of features in the new version were workarounds in the old version. 

[Freddy Masoe]

Wow Mic! 

Thank you for taking the time to do this. Definitely overkill for what I need it for for now, but I've only just started using QLab, so I can definitely see value in developing something like this in my show.

Would a simple 'duplicate' CART be a workaround to rearm the cues? 

[micpool]

On Friday, April 7, 2023 at 3:40:14 AM UTC+1 fmasoe....@gmail.com wrote:

Would a simple 'duplicate' CART be a workaround to rearm the cues? 

No, the way to rearm all the cues in a cart is to make an arm cue, and drag the cart from the right hand pane onto the arm cue. Arming a cart (or cue list) arms any disarmed cues within the cart.

Mic