Operate/Edit Suggestion
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:14 pm
As I was using QLC+ this weekend, an idea occurred to me which I thought I would share. It may very well be that this would be too difficult to implement because it does shift the paradigm of the program quite a bit, but I thought I would at least mention it just in case it might be helpful.
QLC+ has come a LONG way in being able to edit stuff on the fly which is HUGE for me. Just this past week, I was able to edit things during a show on two different systems which saved me a bunch of time, however there are still a few things that can't be done in operate mode. For example, editing the virtual console. Like I said, that's not a huge problem, but if I'm going to do serious programming during a show, I generally have to make a bunch of buttons, assign them to collections which act as placeholders until I edit them and then I assign MIDI commands to the newly made buttons. If I need to drop out of operate mode, I can do that by overriding everything with the simple desk, but only as long as everything is on a static scene (which works sometimes and does not other times). What I can't do is make a new button or assign a function to a button.
However, it occurred to me that it might be possible to change the paradigm of QLC+ so that the default was essentially to be in operate mode and then have something like an edit mode that would essentially hold the currently running functions until the edit mode was exited. Obviously, I realize that this might have some significant implications on the program, so I can completely understand if it's not feasible to do that. Nevertheless, QLC+ is very close to a point where just about everything can be done during a live show and it would be awesome if it could get to the point where the last few things (excluding stuff like adding fixtures, which I don't think is really something that is necessary) could be done live as well.
QLC+ has come a LONG way in being able to edit stuff on the fly which is HUGE for me. Just this past week, I was able to edit things during a show on two different systems which saved me a bunch of time, however there are still a few things that can't be done in operate mode. For example, editing the virtual console. Like I said, that's not a huge problem, but if I'm going to do serious programming during a show, I generally have to make a bunch of buttons, assign them to collections which act as placeholders until I edit them and then I assign MIDI commands to the newly made buttons. If I need to drop out of operate mode, I can do that by overriding everything with the simple desk, but only as long as everything is on a static scene (which works sometimes and does not other times). What I can't do is make a new button or assign a function to a button.
However, it occurred to me that it might be possible to change the paradigm of QLC+ so that the default was essentially to be in operate mode and then have something like an edit mode that would essentially hold the currently running functions until the edit mode was exited. Obviously, I realize that this might have some significant implications on the program, so I can completely understand if it's not feasible to do that. Nevertheless, QLC+ is very close to a point where just about everything can be done during a live show and it would be awesome if it could get to the point where the last few things (excluding stuff like adding fixtures, which I don't think is really something that is necessary) could be done live as well.
