Cues embedded in text

[michaelkpierce]

I work in community theater and the recent show had a lot of lighting cues. We mark up the script and follow it and then hit the next cue button. We have to look at the script and then back to the cue list. What about being able to embed a cue play button in a text document. The idea is to put the script into a text file and then embed buttons to active the cue. So we can be following the script and then see the button in the script and click it to activate the scene.

[GGGss]

QLC+ has a mechanism where external signal can advance the cue list. https://www.qlcplus.org/Test_Web_API.html
Now, the question is, how do I integrate this inside a text editor? Should I call a script or something? You can accomplish something like this depending on the text editors' possibilities.

[Rhinesel]

I work in community theater and the recent show had a lot of lighting cues. We mark up the script and follow it and then hit the next cue button. We have to look at the script and then back to the cue list. What about being able to embed a cue play button in a text document. The idea is to put the script into a text file and then embed buttons to active the cue. So we can be following the script and then see the button in the script and click it to activate the scene.

Map the next cue button to the spacebar. You just keep your finger on the bar and tap it. No need to even look at the screen.

Or are you doing this on the same pc and having to tab between the two or running them side by side and QLC+ isn't the focus program?

Too much for me. Give me a printout and I just press my finger on the spacebar.

[edogawa]

I've been running sound cues from a text edit program on a Mac, but I don't remember details, it was set up by the director of that solo, who didn't join the actress and me on tour, but thought that this would be an efficient way of working. This was about 13 years ago for a show I was travelling through half Europe (and once even to Manhattan), for 2 seasons and maybe a dozen performances in total. I do remember that there were visual cues / icons at the right places in the text, an embedded quicktime player for each sound cue. The program probably was MS Word or Pages.

I hated it. All the scrolling, and clicking in the right moment on that small spot, with a touchpad or a fiddly mouse... and had to run the lights (not QLC+ yet at that time) as well (or call cues to the light operator)...
I don't recall but probably I quickly changed to a prined text book.

I'm all with Rhinesel in that regard. In live situations, remove anything that could confuse or distract you, from your workflow.

[sbenejam]

I work in community theater and the recent show had a lot of lighting cues. We mark up the script and follow it and then hit the next cue button. We have to look at the script and then back to the cue list. What about being able to embed a cue play button in a text document. The idea is to put the script into a text file and then embed buttons to active the cue. So we can be following the script and then see the button in the script and click it to activate the scene.

In our community theater I use cue lists with annotations of the script text or actions that the actors do. So when you have to advance to the next step looking at the annotation you know exactly when to make the change to the next scene.

[thibaultphil]

Hello,
I posted this feature request: https://www.qlcplus.org/forum/viewtopic ... 635#p70635 to help with fire plan tracking. It might be possible to update it.