Attribute Wheels And Palette Windows

adb.attributewheelsandpalettes.xml

Every button of those highlighted in the groups window in the picture basically does the following things:

• open a window (mostly palette but also the attribute editor or shape library)
• sets the right page in the window (like in the Gobos and Beams window in the picture)
• set the wheels to the corresponding attribute (it also cycles the attributes when there are more than 3 like the attribute bank button does to)

The code below is an example for one attribute type (Position). The file contains macros for all attribute types.

• Windows.SetWindowProperty.X
• Windows.SetWindowProperty.Y
• Windows.SetWindowProperty.Width
• Windows.SetWindowProperty.Height
• Windows.Scrolling.Vertical.Scroll

• Windows.windowId.ButtonSize
• Windows.windowId.TextSize
• Windows.windowId.FixedColumns
• Windows.windowId.FixedRows
• Windows.windowId.Pages
• Windows.windowId.CurrentPage

attributewheelsandbuttons.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<avolites.macros>
  <macro id="adb.Macros.POS" name="Position">
    <sequence>
      <step>Menu.InjectInput("OnSelect","AttributeGroup","NoGroup",2)</step>
      <step pause="0.001">
        <menuLink id="Windows.Positions" stack="mainWindowStack" behaviour="PushOrRaise" maximised="True" regionId="secondary" />
      </step>
      <step>Windows.SetWindowProperty.X("Windows.Positions", 0)</step>
      <step>Windows.SetWindowProperty.Y("Windows.Positions", 1)</step>
      <step>Windows.SetWindowProperty.Width("Windows.Positions", 2)</step>
      <step>Windows.SetWindowProperty.Height("Windows.Positions", 1)</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Enum("Windows.Positions.ButtonSize", "Fixed")</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Enum("Windows.Positions.TextSize", "Global")</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Integer("Windows.Positions.FixedColumns", 12)</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Integer("Windows.Positions.FixedRows", 5)</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Boolean("Windows.Positions.Pages", true)</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty.Integer("Windows.Positions.CurrentPage", 0)</step>
      <step>Windows.Scrolling.Vertical.Scroll(-100000)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
</avolites.macros>

This explains the functional steps within the sequence. For all the other XML details please refer to Formats and syntax

Set Times

• Menu.InjectInput(“OnSelect”,“AttributeGroup”,“NoGroup”,2) selects the attribute on the wheels (1=Intensity, 2=Position, 4=Colour, 8=Gobo, 16=Beam, 32=Effects, 64=Special, 128=Shapes)
• <menuLink id=“Windows.Positions” stack=“mainWindowStack” behaviour=“PushOrRaise” maximised=“True” regionId=“secondary” /> opens the positions palette window
• Windows.SetWindowProperty is used to define position and size of the palette window
• ActionScript.SetProperty.x() is used to set other window properties

• make this macro available