LOR S5 Clipboards

[dougd]

Just wondering if there will be support for S5 clipboards. The clipboards changed in S5 and was hoping to see that working again. Thanks.

[Gilrock]

Maybe if you can provide the S5 clipboard format for us.

[dougd]

Here are some clipboards. Let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks!

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApgRhyoQKfS8hspYnLb0oBtayjqXgg

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApgRhyoQKfS8hspZLcxCeY7Qy3AGCA

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApgRhyoQKfS8hspaE4fWuem4oZGpmQ

[dougd]

Not sure why the last post didnt have clickable links.

[dougd]

Here is another.

[dougd]

3rd one.

[Gilrock]

Not sure why the last post didnt have clickable links.

To get clickable links you can't just paste the link you gotta use the Insert Hyperlink button shown in this image I attached.  I posted this cause its a common thing folks miss.

[Gilrock]

The clipboards look like standard XML.  Not sure if there are many variations that don't show up in your examples.  I guess the xLights team needs to talk about whether we are going to keep trying to reverse engineer stuff to work with LOR.

[dkulp]

This doesn't look that hard to support, it's almost exactly like the old clipboard format except for color, but the question is "what is a channel" in there.   The effects on the channels in there have colors (which is different than the "v1" clipboard format we currently write).   Thus, does a "channel" in there actually reflect what we could all a node and contain a full RGB value (and thus 3 channels)?

[dougd]

Bob writes a few utilities for LOR software, he didnt seem to think there were major differences. If you all decide to do this, anything I can do to help just let me know.

[Gilrock]

It would be nice to see a clipboard that shows a single AC channel and an RGB channel to see how they are notated.   Maybe screenshot what they look like in LOR.

I haven't really kept up with the software.  I had a PRO license for S4 and at least a 24 ribbon SuperStar licence but I think they upgraded how many the license allows.  What's the deal with S5 I looked on the website and it doesn't show up on the purchase page?  Is it free or in beta?

[dougd]

S5 is still in beta. Here is the link to the page to download it.

I will get the clipboards and attach a screenshot this time.

http://forums.lightorama.com/topic/45683-light-o-rama-version-5016-released-as-an-open-beta/

[dougd]

Here you go.

[dougd]

I installed 2018.2 last night and was doing some testing. Clipboard didnt work at first, opened up the xlights clipboard and a S5 clipboard in notepad++, made a few changes to the xlights clipboard and it seemed to work. The changes I made were in the <cellDemarcations> region, I noticed the S5 clipboard only had a beginning and ending entry.

So today I thought I would get a bit more detailed information and pass it along. Unfortunately today I  cant seem to get anything to work.

Here are a few more clipboards and screenshots, I will let you genius's see what you can see, my head is hurting after playing with this all morning. Still cant believe I cant remember exactly what I did last night.

Since on export, xlights exports the entire prop to the clipboard, here are some clipboards of an entire prop in S5. The exports are of 16 candy canes with 16 pixels each. Both the xlights and s5 seqeunce is 30 seconds long. Each effect is on for 5 seconds and then off for 5 seconds.

I know you all are close. Thanks again for doing this!

[dkulp]

OK.  I did some adjustments to the export.   Can you try importing the attached to your 16x16 canes?   

Thanks for testing this... Kind of hard to do without actually having S5.