PICED beta sugestion

Have had a good play with the new beta software over the last few days.
Logic engine is great well done.
I have a few sugestions to make pages a lot easier to create.

1. I would like to be able to select, copy and paste multiple objects through holding down the shift key, as it is a lot quicker in making pages up without selecting all objects.

2. Also could the keyboard arrows be used to inch the objects around the page to make lining up buttons and objects a lot easier.

I use Crestron a lot and find I use these functions all the time.

Again great job keep up the good work.

 

Hi Rossco,

Thanks for the great feedback. Your suggestions certainly sound good. I'm pretty sure Darren has these feature requersts logged, but I'll check and add them if they aren't already there.

 

"1. I would like to be able to select, copy and paste multiple objects through holding down the shift key, as it is a lot quicker in making pages up without selecting all objects."

This can be done with the Ctl key.

"2. Also could the keyboard arrows be used to inch the objects around the page to make lining up buttons and objects a lot easier."

This can be done with Ctl + arrow keys. If small movements are required, you should also set the grid snap to 1mm.

 

johnl

Problem with crl key is you have to hold down to move objects with arrow keys.
If you let it go and push a arrow key, the next time you left mouse click you get a shape on the page.
It is not the same.

 

It isn't exactly the same, but it is a very standard way of doing things in various software packages.

If you read the help file topic on keyboard shortcuts, you may find a whole lot of other stuff you weren't aware of.

 

Some rulers or show grid options would be nice too (aka Adobe Illustrator).
Cheers.

 

More sugestions

1. It would be great if PICED could also be able to read current from professional series output units.
I can only find Temperature, Light level and Voltage

2. I see a timer in the logic only counts up, is there any way I can have a variable counter counting down. EG: select 5mins on a variable then have that count down showing time remaining.

Keep up the good work.

 

If you have timer 1 counting up to 300 seconds (5 minutes), then you can get a counting down value with :

300 - TimerTime(1)

 

Darren

I am trying to put in a interger of time in there to show the count down in hr, min & seconds.
KitchenTimerTime is a Integer of Time
KitchenTimer is a Integer of Time
Eg.
once (GetBoolSystemIO("Kitchen Timer Start") = true) then
begin
TimerSet(2 ,0);
end;

if TimerTime(2) > 0 then
begin
SetIntSystemIO("Kitchen Timer", GetIntSystemIO("Kitchen TimerTime" - TimerTime(2)));
end;

I get a Logic runtime error
Error R007 Invalid system I/O Type
I thought since times are a intergers so would the timers.
any help on this would be great.

Also is there any future thought of allowing logic engine to have a link to HTML for allowing typing in of URL's.
Regards,
Rossco

 

The code should be :

SetIntSystemIO("Kitchen Timer", GetIntSystemIO("Kitchen TimerTime") - TimerTime(2));

One of your closing brackets was in the wrong place.

No. Why would you want to do this ?