Bernat Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Hi, I started to use worksheets in Spotlight and there are a couple of issues that I'm wondering. X, Y , Z Location have just one way feedback from, Object info palette to worksheet, Is there a way to get a 2 way communication between those? What I m doing wrong? When I have an instrument with "0" dmx address, the "address filed don not accept new data, I have to fil the "universe/address" or "absolute address" first. Is this a bug or is there another reason for that. After adding data to the absolute address, or the universe/address the "dmx address" field gets its 2 way communication. /Bernat Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee jcogdell Posted November 12, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 12, 2020 Hi Bernat Welcome to the forums 4 hours ago, Bernat said: When I have an instrument with "0" dmx address, the "address filed don not accept new data, I have to fil the "universe/address" or "absolute address" first. Is this a bug or is there another reason for that. After adding data to the absolute address, or the universe/address the "dmx address" field gets its 2 way communication This is a bug, these fields are linked, along with the universe field, so that if you change one the other will update automatically. I have managed to reproduce this just now and will file a bug report. The issue seems to be that for the address to work there has to be a value in the universe field which by default is currently empty 4 hours ago, Bernat said: X, Y , Z Location have just one way feedback from, Object info palette to worksheet, Is there a way to get a 2 way communication between those? What I m doing wrong? You're not doing anything wrong, some data like an objects position data is not editable in a worksheet, and can only be edited in either object properties pane, manually moving the object in the design with the mouse or using a command or tool like the move command Quote Link to comment
Bernat Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 Hi, Thank you for your quick answer, this work perfect for me! The x,y,z position data in the worksheets looks like feature request to consider! what do you think about it? /Bernat Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee jcogdell Posted November 12, 2020 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 12, 2020 Just a word of warning, I found that the original solution (editing the default spotlight lighting device parameters) didn't work consistently, which is why I edited my original reply I will log the enhancement request regarding the X, Y, Z coords and being able to edit them in a worksheet 1 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Currently the only things that are two way between objects and worksheets are Record.Field combinations. These can be custom records or object parameter records. None of the things that are listed in the Worksheet Insert Function list are two way. Quote Link to comment
Bernat Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 That's god to know. The parameters I mention, are picked from the "Record - Lightning - Device" Menu. This is why expected to have feedback from xyz. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Can you post a small sample file for me to take a look at? As far as I know if they are Record.Field they should be two way. Perhaps those fields are somehow marked as Read Only? Can you access that data from the OIP and change them there? Quote Link to comment
Bernat Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 I 've placed 2 x lamps in a truss one with address and the other one with the default "0" address and I've pick upp the XYZ coordinates into the worksheet. Test data 2wayy.vwx Quote Link to comment
JBenghiat Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 8 hours ago, jcogdell said: 12 hours ago, Bernat said: When I have an instrument with "0" dmx address, the "address filed don not accept new data, I have to fil the "universe/address" or "absolute address" first. Is this a bug or is there another reason for that. After adding data to the absolute address, or the universe/address the "dmx address" field gets its 2 way communication This is a bug, these fields are linked, along with the universe field, so that if you change one the other will update automatically. I have managed to reproduce this just now and will file a bug report. The issue seems to be that for the address to work there has to be a value in the universe field which by default is currently empty This should be fixed in 2021 SP2 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 It appears that something in the Lighting Device code is capturing the data and writing that back to the Lighting Device record so that changes can't be made through the worksheet. None of the Location or Rot fields are marked as Read Only or NNA Do Not Change, so I don't know why they are not responding to changes in the worksheet. You might want to put a post in the Wishlist forum asking for these fields to respond to changes in the worksheet. 1 Quote Link to comment
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