Here's a script to preview light cues

[Tomas Lindén]

Hi

I recently bumped into a problem where Qlab didn't behave like I expected.

To be able to do what I wanted I made a script cue.

Reason:

During the programming phase of the production I want to quickly jump between the different light cues to make sure that everything behaves correctly and also to go back and fix things that I noticed during a run.

The quick way to do this was in my mind to activate "Collate effects of previous light cues" on all light cues within the timeline group. That way I could go to whatever light cue I wanted to, using the preview function. I was also able to play the timeline group cues and everything worked as expected.

However, this turned out to be a problem during rehearsal when the performers wanted to rehearse a specific section. I used "Load to time" and Qlab took sometimes up to 12 seconds before it started playing when I pressed GO.

Now I've only set the first light cue in each timeline group to "Collate..." and left the others without that setting. This way the "Load to time" function works as expected.

My workaround:

With a hotkey I can test any light cue in any order and get the expected artnet output.

I'm not used to applescript so it might not be optimal but it seems to work.

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.4" to tell front workspace

  repeat with eachCue in (selected as list)

    if q type of eachCue is "light" then

      if always collate of eachCue is true then

        preview eachCue

      else

        set always collate of eachCue to true

        preview eachCue

        set always collate of eachCue to false

      end if

    else

      preview eachCue

    end if

  end repeat

end tell

Hope this can be helpful to someone else as well

/Tomas Lindén

[ABDELLATIF]

merci c'est super

peux tu envoyer le fichier Qlab 

car je ne sais pas comment le faire marcher, fonctionner .

Merci encore