Artist Help:Real-time View
Real-time events occur at specific times of the day based on the clock on the computer. An event has an associated time, a day of the week selection and a System command that will fire when the event occurs.
The list of Real-time Events that you create will fire in chronological order starting 00:00 hours (midnight) for 24 hours and then start again. You can select any of the 7 days of the week that an event can fire on. Sometimes you may not wish to fire the event on a Sunday for example, you can in that case disable Sunday for that event.
The time of the event can be made relative to the time of sunrise or sunset. This function is sometimes called Astronomical for reasons we are not clear on since these times have nothing to do with stars.
By default, Artist defines sunrise as 6:00am and sunset as 6:00pm. These values are strictly arbitrary. To get accurate time you should install the Sunrise application supplied with Artist. This runs in the system task tray and provides Artist with accurate time for sunset and sunrise.
With this function, you can make your events fire relative to these times. For example, an event can be made to fire 1hr 30mins before sunrise.
The Scheduler application is also supplied with Artist. After installation, this provides Artist with a new set of 365-day calendar events.
The view displays the real-time events in the currently loaded RTC file.
| Time | the time the event fires. |
| Calendar | the days of the week the event fires on. |
| Command | the System Command to trigger. |
| Command details | extra details of the system command. |
When the Real-time transport is put into Play mode a flag will appear in the Time column that will be triggered next. The last triggered event is signified by a red dot.
| File name | this box displays the name of the loaded RTC file. |
| Previous | when the real-time Control is in Stop mode this button fires the event previous to the last event fired. |
| Next | when the real-time Control is in Stop mode this button fires the event after the last fired event. |
| Close | close the RTC file. |
| Wizard | insert events with the Wizard |
| Creating a Show | creating a real time event driven show |
| Sunrise/Sunset | Sunset and Sunrise time of day events |
| Scheduler | calendar events |