ArtNet Input AND Output possibly not working

[siegmund]

Are you able to compile QLC+ from sources ?

Yes.

If you want to test it, the code is available on the master branch

It works gently now

Thank you for all of your help! You're all doing a great job. Is there already a date when the new version is expected to be released?

At the end I may have two suggestions on the ArtNet plugin.
First, bringing up the settings window is mostly a bit frustrating for me. I always do this be double clicking the ArtNet line in the input/output tab. 8 out of 10 times I do a click to much. That brings the QLC+ main window to the front. So I often end up click the ArtNet plugin maybe about a hundred times (not overdoing here! ) until I realize the window has already been opened and I just need to switch the windows. That's a bit annoying. My suggestion is to implement some sort of "toggling": When double clicking the plugin the settings window opens and another double click causes the settings window to close and afresh.

And second while I read into the ArtNet protocol I realized that also the configuration of the nodes could be done over this protocol. For configuring my nodes I had to boot windows so far because there is no config tool for linux at the moment (or I didn't found it yet). This was very frustrating and especially is really time-killing when preparing for a show in the location. So maybe we could discuss, whether it's possible and a good idea to integrate some basic configuration options for ArtNet in QLC+. Just a suggestion that would be really helpful, I think.
If you consider that helpful too and someone is willing to give me some hints on plugin programming in QLC+ I'm definitely disposed to contribute to such a feature.

Thanks for this great software

[plugz]

It works gently now

Nice

Is there already a date when the new version is expected to be released?

This is not known.

First, bringing up the settings window is mostly a bit frustrating for me. I always do this be double clicking the ArtNet line in the input/output tab. 8 out of 10 times I do a click to much. That brings the QLC+ main window to the front. So I often end up click the ArtNet plugin maybe about a hundred times (not overdoing here! ) until I realize the window has already been opened and I just need to switch the windows. That's a bit annoying. My suggestion is to implement some sort of "toggling": When double clicking the plugin the settings window opens and another double click causes the settings window to close and afresh.

The plugin parameter window is supposed to be put on front of the main window and forbid the main window to be focused. I've never encountered this issue. What's your window manager ? Once the parameter window is open, are you sure you're able to click on things in the main window ? Can you select another tab for example ?

And second while I read into the ArtNet protocol I realized that also the configuration of the nodes could be done over this protocol. For configuring my nodes I had to boot windows so far because there is no config tool for linux at the moment (or I didn't found it yet). This was very frustrating and especially is really time-killing when preparing for a show in the location. So maybe we could discuss, whether it's possible and a good idea to integrate some basic configuration options for ArtNet in QLC+. Just a suggestion that would be really helpful, I think.
If you consider that helpful too and someone is willing to give me some hints on plugin programming in QLC+ I'm definitely disposed to contribute to such a feature.

This is an interesting thing to do. What's the tool you use under Windows ? Are you sure it's using ArtNet messages to configure the nodes ?

[janosvitok]

And second while I read into the ArtNet protocol I realized that also the configuration of the nodes could be done over this protocol. For configuring my nodes I had to boot windows so far because there is no config tool for linux at the moment (or I didn't found it yet). This was very frustrating and especially is really time-killing when preparing for a show in the location. So maybe we could discuss, whether it's possible and a good idea to integrate some basic configuration options for ArtNet in QLC+. Just a suggestion that would be really helpful, I think.
If you consider that helpful too and someone is willing to give me some hints on plugin programming in QLC+ I'm definitely disposed to contribute to such a feature.

This is an interesting thing to do. What's the tool you use under Windows ? Are you sure it's using ArtNet messages to configure the nodes ?

One case is eDMX1 (and I suppose the other variants from DMXking as well). I expect that not all settings are documented in ArtNet standard, but some are.

[siegmund]

First, bringing up the settings window is mostly a bit frustrating for me. I always do this be double clicking the ArtNet line in the input/output tab. 8 out of 10 times I do a click to much. That brings the QLC+ main window to the front. So I often end up click the ArtNet plugin maybe about a hundred times (not overdoing here! ) until I realize the window has already been opened and I just need to switch the windows. That's a bit annoying. My suggestion is to implement some sort of "toggling": When double clicking the plugin the settings window opens and another double click causes the settings window to close and afresh.

The plugin parameter window is supposed to be put on front of the main window and forbid the main window to be focused. I've never encountered this issue. What's your window manager ? Once the parameter window is open, are you sure you're able to click on things in the main window ? Can you select another tab for example ?

I did not know it's supposed to stay in front. But it definitely does not in my case. Trying it again shows that I'm not able to click anything in the main window, but the settings window is definitely behind the main window.
My window manager is Xfwm (Xubuntu 14.04 64Bit)

And second while I read into the ArtNet protocol I realized that also the configuration of the nodes could be done over this protocol. For configuring my nodes I had to boot windows so far because there is no config tool for linux at the moment (or I didn't found it yet). This was very frustrating and especially is really time-killing when preparing for a show in the location. So maybe we could discuss, whether it's possible and a good idea to integrate some basic configuration options for ArtNet in QLC+. Just a suggestion that would be really helpful, I think.
If you consider that helpful too and someone is willing to give me some hints on plugin programming in QLC+ I'm definitely disposed to contribute to such a feature.

This is an interesting thing to do. What's the tool you use under Windows ? Are you sure it's using ArtNet messages to configure the nodes ?

For Enttec devices it is recommended to use "node management utility" http://www.enttec.com/index.php?main_me ... s&pn=79001
For the other interface I'm using DMX-Workshop, this also works for the Enttec device. (DMX-Workshop unfortunately is not working with wine in linux) http://www.artisticlicence.com/index.ph ... uct_id=351
But I see that this is worth opening a new thread for discussion. I don't know if it really uses the ArtNet protocol but it could be done with this according to the specs. I'm going to check this out and write results in the new thread.