Need script hotkey to fade active cues and then stop.

[Richard Holdman]

Currently I have a script set to a hot key that stops all active cues. I am looking for a script that will fade down the active audio cues in 2 seconds and then stop all active cues. Possible?

[Sam Kusnetz]

On March 17, 2014 at 1:32:21 PM, Richard Holdman (richard...@gmail.com) wrote:

Currently I have a script set to a hot key that stops all active cues. I am looking for a script that will fade down the active audio cues in 2 seconds and then stop all active cues. Possible?

If you are using QLab 3, you can set the panic duration to 2 seconds (in settings, accessed via the gear icon in the lower right corner of the workspace) and use the escape key.

Does this work for your purposes?

Cheerio

Sam

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[Richard Holdman]

Thanks. This does work and is what I can use for now. I was hoping to use a script so I can map it to a hot key and use a bluetooth device to trigger the script.

[Sam Kusnetz]

Richard

But… it already has a hotkey! The hotkey is “escape”…?

You can also use an OSC cue to send the command “/panic” to localhost (127.0.0.1), and then assign any hotkey you like to that cue.

Cheerio

Sam

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[Richard Holdman]

I have an iCade Core Bluetooth Arcade Controller that I am wanting to use and the computer sees it as a keyboard. It has large arcade style buttons on it and they are mapped to certain keystrokes. I am wanting to map certain buttons to do certain functions and I can't remap the buttons to be an ESC key. I may be able to use other software to remap a another input key to the ESC key but was hoping to not get other software involved for better stability.

[Richard Holdman]

I got it to working with the following script that uses panic in qlab.

tell application "QLab"

panic front workspace

end tell

Now I can assign the script to any key and it runs the panic feature in qlab that will fade the active cues and stop.

[Dave "luckydave" Memory]

The only issue I can see with this is that AppleScript takes over the main thread when you run it from a script cue, so you may have to wait for the panic to complete before you can do anything else. Using an OSC cue, as Sam described previously, would eliminate that issue.

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[Rich Walsh]

It's not an issue. AS send the aevt and moves on; not quite sure what the hard and fast rules are for when AS is going to wait for an application response before releasing the thread – but it doesn't in this case.

Incidentally, you don't need those tell blocks in QLab.

Rich

[Daniel Perelstein]

You can also create a fade that targets an entire cue list. If your entire show is in a single cue list, you can set the target of your 2-second fade cue to that cue list, assign your Bluetooth keyboard hotkey as a trigger for that fade, and you're set. 

If your show is on multiple cue lists, you could have a group cue with individual fades, each targeting a single list, and set your hotkey trigger for that group cue. 

Sounds like you've found a solution, but I'm chiming in anyways like the loud-ass I am. 

Dan

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