Layout with XL ver 2016.7

[rcowan]

I'll have to look into a batch file with appropriate registry entries.  Thanks!

If you do go the batch/registry file route I would actually only export the LastDir and MediaDir values. There are other values in there that look like they could be updated by the software itself at runtime and you will overwrite those every time you apply the "old" registry.

[threesizes]

I'll have to look into a batch file with appropriate registry entries.  Thanks!

If you do go the batch/registry file route I would actually only export the LastDir and MediaDir values. There are other values in there that look like they could be updated by the software itself at runtime and you will overwrite those every time you apply the "old" registry.

Instead of messing with the registry, you could just use hard links [mklink /J] (Windows) or sym links  [ln -s] (Mac/Linux) from your configured show dir to your actual show dir. The batch/script file would only need to update the link to point to the right place.

[Gilrock]

There shouldn't be a need to swap versions that often and when you do just spend 3 seconds to change your show directory.

[AussiePhil]

Lesson from the Vixen team..... you can have a default profile and any number of other profiles that can be selected at app start.
Whilst we may not change versions often, profiles would solve the issue and add functionality to have different show directories.. test, pumpkin, xmas, etc.

[Gilrock]

The Show directory basically is the profile.  You change Show directories to change profiles.  That's exactly how you're supposed to be using them.  I have folders like 2014, 2015, 2016.  Then under each one of those I have Christmas, Halloween, P10_large, P10_small.  Then I have a Users folder and a show directory for the 30-40 user's I've helped.  The issue being discussed is that we save the last active "profile" in the registry so when you change versions of the program it still defaults to the same "profile" you were using with another version.

[sean]

Lesson from the Vixen team..... you can have a default profile and any number of other profiles that can be selected at app start.
Whilst we may not change versions often, profiles would solve the issue and add functionality to have different show directories.. test, pumpkin, xmas, etc.

Phil;

I have 22 xmas profiles and 7 halloween profiles. I can pick any of them and then work them. We dont have a default profile, we remember the last profile you used.

So "add functionality to have different show directories.. test, pumpkin, xmas, etc." we have this now, or am I missing something?

We didnt give a way to have old version software and new version software and switch between them, but i didnt think that is what you were referring to?

What we dont have is the ability to have multiple profiles. For example some people are sequencing the same song for four houses. I imagine being able to see Whole House layout so it is divided in 4 parts and you see what the single sequence looks like on 4 different houses, 4 different background images or 6 or 8 or 9 .etc.. It would be nice, but i think it is a small group that is sequencing multiple houses to one song.


thanks
sean

[dkulp]

Also note that the bottom of the File menu displays the last four show directories that you used.  Thus, flipping back and forth between a couple is relatively quick and easy.

[gadgetsmith]

Personally, I much prefer the way xLights handles "profiles", simply change directory, and that is the new profile.  Easy to keep track of, easy to share.

Yes, the "issue" (if it can even be called that) is one of convenience than anything else.  When I switch between two versions of xLights, it's reading the last profile opened out of the registry, and defaulting to that.  I'm wanting each version to have their own separate registry setting, unique to the version of the software.

Dan has pointed out another way to change directory that I wasn't aware of.  Under 'file' there are the last 4 directories used, just click on one to set it.  Have to say I don't often, if ever, visit the 'file' menu up there! lol.

Anyway, I appreciate all the input on this.  If I find myself not being able to live with the way it is, I've been given the clues as to how to accomplish it.  For now, i'm just gonna keep playing with these Beta's, and i'll worry about this stuff minor stuff when I get started sequencing for the 2016 show(s).

cheers
charlie

[Phrog30]

Lesson from the Vixen team..... you can have a default profile and any number of other profiles that can be selected at app start.
Whilst we may not change versions often, profiles would solve the issue and add functionality to have different show directories.. test, pumpkin, xmas, etc.

That's not a lesson.

Xlights is better the way they have it. I've used both.

James

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[jnealand]

The problem is not in switching between show directories, that is easy enough.  I have multiple show directories like everyone else.  The issue is having two copies of xlights running at the same time.  One showing my layout and one showing the layout and sequence of a shared show that I am trying to copy/convert to my own show.

[Gilrock]

Just buy another computer Jim.

[jnealand]

I've tried two computers but then you can not copy and paste.  So many solutions to every problem I hardly know where to begin.  This week and last I am in the process of upgrading most of the family computers to Win10.  So far have done 4 laptops and 1 desktop.  Still have a netbook and three desktops to go if I even do the remaining desktops.

[Gilrock]

Yeah I'm just not sure a good way to have multiple copies of the program running that are disassociated from a common registry location.

[gadgetsmith]

Yeah I'm just not sure a good way to have multiple copies of the program running that are disassociated from a common registry location.

I'm not a programmer, so I'll ask this question, because I really don't have a clue.

Why are registry settings needed? Can't info about how a program is run just be stored in the program install directory?  Is there a benefit of one vs another?

[Phrog30]

Would it be silly to have the sequence path part of the sequence?

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