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I've created a bunch of cue files, in my example, I'll just use the 5 red pars and 5 yellow pars ignoring x-moves and all greens and blues.

Ok, so what I've done is I've created a FORWARD and BACKWARD chase for each red and yellow (and others not in this example). When I press button for the red chase, I expect it to scan one at a time left and right forever.......and it does.......and so does the yellow. My issue, say red is scanning left and right, when I go and press the yellow scan, I would expect that all "last" red that was active to "shut off" and then only the yellows scan since that is the patterns that I programmed for yellow only. However, when I directly switch from red to yellow or vice versa, whatever last par can was "on" at the time I button switch, that par remains lit and the other button color begins........

I tried to do a once shot to shut all lights off, then do the color selected scan, but that doesn't work either.......now, this is all being done in the simulator, I'm not sure how the hardware will react, but I would suspect exactly the same.

If I press the red chase on, then press red chase button again, all the reds turn off, then I can select yellow....if I press yellow again, all yellows go off and then I can select red......etc etc........

My issue is I don't want to have to press the "running" button twice (on/off) when I switch the button scene (hence the attempt at a one shot to turn all off at the beginning of the sequence).....

Can anyone offer a suggestion to how I can fix this? I want to be able to press any given button that is programmed, and have it do just that and turning off the last scene pars.

If I have to, I can make a video, but hopefully this is enough info.

Any help would be great.

Thanks!

Not sure why the images are only showing half of it in thread, if you right click and hit open image, you can see the whole thing......something wrong with image resizer in thread?????

You either need to program in static mode, or if using transparent ensure you will need to set all par cans to zero in every step.

In transparent mode, if you dont set a par can in each step it will ignore them, so if they were set to on in your other sequence it will remain on as its ignored its transparent to the current sequence.

if in doubt use static...

Matt

ah ok, I've read the wiki, but I still don't have a clear understanding of the difference of the two....but I'll do as you say.

I've always had controllers that had preprogrammed patterns and light chances so it did all the "work" for me.....freestyler is a great programming tool, I just need to understand it better.

Thank you for the guidance, I will work on it now and try it.

Hello,

Changing it to static solved my issue, thanks for the help.



Chris