Editing Artist Help:Control Shortcuts

Shortcuts are quick select values. In an implemented fixture template, the box underneath the slider provides a dropdown list that can display the decimal, percentage or hex value of the slider, or a color, a bitmap or a label. Whenever the slider is moved, the box displays the sliders value. If you select an item from the dropdown list, the item's color, bitmap or label is displayed.

 It is very important that you set these values for color and gobo channels in particular, since the palettes depend on these to determine what levels to set for a particular color or gobo

=== To create a shortcut ===

* first select Label, Bitmap or Color from the Combobox 
* then click on the dropdown arrow of the Multibutton control. This will display either an edit box (for labels), a bitmap list (for bitmaps) or the Window color dialog (for colors) 
* select or edit the required display item 
* set the value in the spin-edit control required for this item. If a fixture is connected to the DMX line, you can observe its behavour to the set value. 
* click store. The range will appear in the list 

In most fixtures the color select channel (for example) has a specific value to select a color. You can create a slider control with a dropdown list containing these selectable colors.

=== Show Slider ===

When this value is checked a slider will be permanently visible to adjust the parameter values. Even if this box is not checked, you can see a slider by right-clicking within the control area.

=== Label Display ===

Select the output value representation.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Caption text
|-
| Decimal || 8 bit - values 0-255; 16 bit - values 0-65535 
|-
| Percentage || displays parameter level as a percentage of the maximum level
|-
| Fraction || displays parameter level as a fraction of the maximum value
|-
| Hexadecimal || 8 bit - value 00-FF; 16 bit - values 0000-FFFF 
|}