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Gonda

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  1. Thanks! Never thought to look at the top level of the scripting link on the developer site. Only looked at the Funciton Reference. Cheers!
  2. Hey Folks, Does anyone know if there is any central documentation for new/updated/deprecated functions in VW2024? I've been looking around and haven't found anything short of clicking on every single function in the function reference. Cheers, -g
  3. As someone who works on a lot of projects that are shared with others, but where the built-in collaboration features are lacking/don't work: When a file is saved create a checksum. Before a file is saved, re-read the file and see if the checksum of the current file matches the checksum from when you opened it. If it matches, save as normal, if it doesn't match, at least alert the user that the original file has changed and make them either confirm the save or give the option to do a "Save As..." We have run into a number of instances where User A opens a file, then User B opens a file, User B then saves and closes the file followed by User A. As a result of this, User B's changes are obliterated but there is no indication that this has happened. This is mostly an issue when files are being shared via cloud service that integrates into a local machine (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc)
  4. Did you ever get to the bottom of this problem? Cheers
  5. Hey All, So, installed the Dialog Builder through the Partner Products section... Once I restarted VW, I did see the DB Floating Tool Palette but it only has 4 items: A. Test Run B. Tools C. Renumberer D. Static Text I've poked around the workspace editor to see if I was missing something (menu, adding tools to the palette, etc), but for the life of me I can't find the tools to actually layout things in DB (buttons, text boxes, popup's, etc)... Am I just missing something incredibly obvious? Is DB broken? Running VW2023 SP4 on MacOS Ventura on Apple Silicon. Cheers, -g
  6. Hi All, So...was just working on a drawing with a bunch of truss and fixtures. When I went to move the truss, VW decided it was smarter than me and moved all of my fixtures as well. Now, I can understand it doing this if the truss had been converted to a lighting position, but given that it wasn't, the truss and fixtures were on seperate layers... I guess my question ultimately is, is there a way to basically have VW ONLY do what I tell it to as opposed to it randomly adding objects to a selection? Cheers, -gonda
  7. As an update...I created a new label legend and tried to apply it to a unit that had succesfully had a label legend applied. Applying the new label legend via the context menu ONLY changed the legend for the first cell of the unit regardless of which cell I had selected or if All were selected... Clearly, broken... Cheers, -gonda
  8. Well...ballz....just tried this again... So...I finally got it to work. At least for me, the only way it works is to make the label legend active. But specifically, selecting 'Make Active' from the Resource Browser doesn't seem to work. I had to go into the Label Legend Manager and make it active there. After doing that, when I inserted a new instance of the zipstrip, the label legend did the right thing for all the cells. If the label legend was not active upon insertion, even applying the label legend failed to get it to do the right thing. Chalk one more half-broken thing up for VW2021..... Cheers, -gonda
  9. @Jesse Cogswell So, I've tried applying the legend with individual cell's selected via the 'Edit Cell' dropdown as well as to the <All> option...same result both ways... @JBenghiat I am trying this with the standard Altman ZS-3 Symbol from the standard Vectorworks Library. If I edit the symbol, it contains three symbols: the L, C, and R parts of the light. I've looked inside each of those symbols and they only contain either groups or extrudes... Any other ideas? Silly question...are y'all on Windows or MacOS? Cheers, -gonda
  10. So, I've tried creating a Label Legend base on the full Altman ZS-3 Symbol: I also created one based on just the Center Sub-Symbol: When I apply either legend I get the following: If it helps, I'm running 2021SP3.1 on Windows...also, as far as I can tell, there is no way to select an individual 'cell'. Cheers, -gonda
  11. Hey All, So, maybe I'm missing something obvious, but with the changes to the way multi-cell units are handled, how does one deal with label legends for these changes? When I have tried to create a label legend for a fixture, it only seems to give me the option for a single 'channel' field. In the VW2021 docs, there is a picture showing multiple channels/dimmers for an instrument, but all of the references in the documentation that I can find only seems to deal with single cell units as opposed to multi cell... FWIW, I'm trying to set up a label legend for a 6' Ministrip...for now, I'm using the Altman 6' Zipstrip symbol since the L&E Ministrip symbol seems to be borked as far as multi-cell implementation. Cheers, -gonda
  12. Hi All, Has anyone noticed that beam drawing is funky with 2021? In an top view the edge of the beam lands at ~x=20'. When I switch to a left/right view, the edge of the beam is being drawn at ~x=21'9". Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Also, beam drawing for a side light unit is fine for a straight side shot but as soon as I try to tip it upwards by anything more than % degrees, the beam drawing goes crazy and projects the beam several hundred feet with an artifical top cut. Thoughts? Cheers, -gonda
  13. I understand that but this is a desktop machine that ONLY has a 5700XT. The processor does not have onboard graphics available. When setting graphics options the only option given is for the 5700XT Cheers, -g
  14. Hey All, Has anyone else encountered VW hanging on 'Resetting Bounds' when opening a backup file? Several times now, after VW crashes, when I attempt to open a backup file, it takes VW ~20 minutes to open the file. Currently running VW2021 with SP1 on Windows 10 with all updates & driver updates applied. AMD Processor, 5700XT video card & 32 gigs of RAM. Cheers, -gonda
  15. Yup. There's only 1 GPU and it's driver is updated. Cheers, -g
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