Beta 9 - My bugs list

[PolDavril]

(48)
IMPROVEMENT. In Palette, Color with fan option. When the fan option is changed, the fixture colors should be updated automatically, to reflect the new type (center/left/right/sides). In the present version, a (dummy) change must be done in the color wheel before the new fan type is visible.
Same for fan options in control faders.

[PolDavril]

(49)
BUG. When a fan has been used in Palette to create a scene, the strobe effect in 2D view flashes the multiple beams with an offset, I mean not sync'd.
It seems that an unwanted parameter in "fan" alters the flash 2D effect.
This is how to reproduce it with the attached show file.
(just remove the dummy ".zip" extension).
1: Go to EDIT, select all fixtures in led-par64 tab
2: Go to Palette, click the "Advanced" icon, pick a color in the color wheel, click "Linear fan from center" in Color, click the preset "Dimmer" in the "Shutter" channel (all beams should be colored)
3: Set a fan range in the color wheel (a step is created in Scene)
4: Go to LIVE, click FADER, select a color with the 3 first faders and select the preset "Strobe" in channel 4. The beams do not flash at the same time. Set channel 4 to a value 205 to see it in a better way.
It's not a problem with the show file itself, as all is normal again after a reload.
Maybe a wrong parameter in Daslight after a previous "fan" processing.

[PolDavril]

(50)
BUG or not ? In Palette, Color. The dot indicator of DMX mapping is lit when all 3 channels (Red, Green, Blue) are selected. In the case of 1 or 2 channels only, the dot remains off.
Is this intentional ? I think more logical to have the dot lit as soon as there is at least one channel selected.
Same for MIDI.

[PolDavril]

(51)
BUG. In Palette, Pan Tilt with Fan. When a pan/tilt is applied to 5 fixtures (odd number) with an "Fan" option "from center" or "from sides", the processed fixtures are not logical.
Example with 5 fixtures, "Linear fan from center".
The first dot makes fixtures #1, #4 and #5 move. It should be #1, #2, #4 and #5 (all fixtures except the one at the center). The second dot makes fixtures #2, #3 and #5 move. It should be #2, #3 and #4 (all fixtures except the 2 outer ones).
Example with 5 fixtures, "Linear fan from sides". It's the same issue (the roles of the position buttons are just inversed).
Other remark : with "from center" and "from sides", some of the 5 fixtures move a lot when the dots are moved, as if they received conflictual DMX information.
However, it seems to work fine with 2, 3, 4 and 6 fixtures.
Maybe it works with all even numbers ? Maybe not with odd numbers 5, 7, 9, ... ? I cannot check with more than 6 moving spots.

[PolDavril]

(52)
BUG ? In some circumstances, the icon on top of some faders changes without reason, with an additional Greek mu symbol (µ). Maybe after a lot of New/Open/Save actions of show files but I'm not sure. I haven't got any logical way to reproduce it.
That channel category is "Shutter" in the ssl2.
In the picture attached, top = screen copy of the problem, bottom = as it should be (and as it is at startup).

[PolDavril]

(53)
BUG (minor). In Preferences, "Send feedback when loading a show" has no tooltip.

[PolDavril]

(54)
IMPROVEMENT. When SHOW window is in locked state, the symbols '+' and 'x' could be hidden, as they are inactive. Doing this, the labels "Page xx" could also be displayed with less space between them, so some more pages could be seen at a glance, especially for big shows. That's just a suggestion.

[Jp]

Hi

52) The micro sign should only be displayed with the lower bytes of a 16 bits channel...
We'll check the rest

[PolDavril]

(55)
Not a bug. (removed by PolDavril).

[PolDavril]

(56)
BUG & CRASH. I make the following actions.
- In EDIT, select "Basic scene"
- Click the EFFECT tab and select any effect category
- Unselect "Basic scene"
- Click on the fixture to select it
- Press "Generate" in EFFECTS and boom...
(Note that the crash report cannot be sent for now).
Maybe the "New Scene" option must be forced to ON when no current scene is selected.
Show file attached (remove the dummy ".zip").

[PolDavril]

(57)
SUGGESTION. With auto-positioning, a spacing parameter would be useful for adding a gap between the fixtures, so they do not collapse.
This feature would be useful for a better view with a bunch of multibeam fixtures.

**edit May 10, 2016**: Suggestions.
- Default spacing value(s) saved in "Preferences" -> "General" for the spacing automatically be used with all direct positioning options (square, circle, HLine and VLine).
- Additional parameter(s) in "Advanced positioning" option ("Horizontal spacing:" and "Vertical spacing:").
The spacing value(s) could also be initialized by default with the value(s) set in Preferences.

**edit May 14, 2016**: Remarks.
I've just noticed that it's possible to add space between the fixtures by expanding the selected group starting from one corner. It's also possible to overlap the fixtures by reducing the group size.

[PolDavril]

(58)
BUG. In Palette.
See the fixtures in the file attached (remove the dummy ".zip").

(58a)
BUG. In General tab, when the fixture has more than 1 dimmer channel, and when the beams are not all selected, the dimmer fader falls to zero after the value is set (sample fixtures 2 & 4).

(58b)
BUG. In General tab, when the fixture has more than 1 RGB channel, and when the beams are not all selected, the selected color is immediately reset to white. This is a real bug, because it's impossible to adjust the color intensity with the outer ring for the color that's just been chosen... (sample fixtures 3 & 4).

(58c)
BUG or ODDITY. In the fixture own tab, when there is more than 1 dimmer channel, all faders move together, whatever the beam(s) selected. When the fader is released, the faders associated to the selected beams keep the good value and the other faders (of non selected beams) go back to their initial value (see examples 2 & 4).
Although there is no real issue with this strange behavior, in my opinion, the "personal" fader of a non-selected beam should be disabled and should not move.

[PolDavril]

(59)
BUG. In EDIT, EFFECT. When a scene is selected, the option "On current step" is active (of course, it's disabled when an effect is generated from the LIVE mode).
Now, click LIVE and EDIT again : "On current step" has become inactive in EDIT, although the scene and the step are still selected.
The scene has to be clicked twice for "On current step" be active again.

[PolDavril]

(60)
BUG & CRASH.
Open the attached show file (remove the dummy ".zip").
Go to EDIT, select the first step of Scene.
Click EFFECT and "led-par64" tab.
Add a curve effect, select a channel to be processed (ex. led - Red).
If needed, click the scene twice to enable "On current step" (bug #59) and set it to ON.
Click Generate.
Be ready for the crash

[PolDavril]

(60 cont'd)
Possible cause : the options "New Scene" and "On current step" do conflit ?
It does not crash when "On current step" is off when "New Scene" is on.
See the screen copy, taken just before clicking Generate and the crash.
Maybe bugs #59 and #60 are linked (wrong init and/or mutual exclusion of options ?).