Mutually Exclusive in Device Array

alexsquared

Ok gurus, got another question.
I've got a project here at our coporate office. We are part of the TP Control Beta team, and as such wanted to quickly duplicate our panel for testing purposes (without duplicating code of course). Due to previous negative experiences with Define_combine (page flips in code didn't always hit both panels), and due to a suggestion by AMX tech support, I just created a Dev Array for my (2) panels. all worked well. I have now wanted to add a little bit of feedback to the source selection pages as opposed to doing the momentary feedback for button presses. When I express the mutually exclusive table citing the Array as the panel, it doesn't work. The buttons light up, but they don't exclude each other so every button can get lit up. If I do a mutually exclusive of the actual panel page, things work, but the source selection bogs down for some reason. The command takes about 1-2 seconds to go to the Extron switcher vs being pretty instant.
Any thoughts?

mpullin

alexsquared wrote: »

Ok gurus, got another question.
I've got a project here at our coporate office. We are part of the TP Control Beta team, and as such wanted to quickly duplicate our panel for testing purposes (without duplicating code of course). Due to previous negative experiences with Define_combine (page flips in code didn't always hit both panels), and due to a suggestion by AMX tech support, I just created a Dev Array for my (2) panels. all worked well. I have now wanted to add a little bit of feedback to the source selection pages as opposed to doing the momentary feedback for button presses. When I express the mutually exclusive table citing the Array as the panel, it doesn't work. The buttons light up, but they don't exclude each other so every button can get lit up. If I do a mutually exclusive of the actual panel page, things work, but the source selection bogs down for some reason. The command takes about 1-2 seconds to go to the Extron switcher vs being pretty instant.
Any thoughts?

Yes, do away with the Mutually Exclusive. You should be able to decide in code what the currently selected source is, and only highlight the appropriate button if that source is active, not if otherwise, e.g.

[arrayTP,butSrc[1]] = (nCurrentlyActiveSource == 1);
[arrayTP,butSrc[2]] = (nCurrentlyActiveSource == 2);
[arrayTP,butSrc[3]] = (nCurrentlyActiveSource == 3);
[arrayTP,butSrc[4]] = (nCurrentlyActiveSource == 4);
[arrayTP,butRoomOff] = (nCurrentlyActiveSource == 0);

Joe Hebert

alexsquared wrote:

When I express the mutually exclusive table citing the Array as the panel, it doesn't work.

Assuming you have something like this:

DEFINE_DEVICE

dvTP1 = 10001:1:0
dvTP2 = 10002:1:0

DEFINE_VARIABLE

DEV	dvTPs[] = {dvTP1,dvTP2}

You can’t do this:

DEFINE_MUTUALLY_EXCLUSIVE

//You can't do this:
([dvTPs,1]..[dvTPs,8])

You have to do this instead:

DEFINE_MUTUALLY_EXCLUSIVE

([dvTP1,1]..[dvTP1,8])
([dvTP2,1]..[dvTP2,8])

Or this:

DEFINE_MUTUALLY_EXCLUSIVE

([dvTPs[1],1]..[dvTPs[1],8])
([dvTPs[2],1]..[dvTPs[2],8])

Or get rid of mutually exclusive all together as Matt suggested.

alexsquared

Problem is...I did this

Joe Hebert wrote: »

You have to do this instead:

DEFINE_MUTUALLY_EXCLUSIVE

([dvTP1,1]..[dvTP1,8])
([dvTP2,1]..[dvTP2,8])

And this is what bogged down the source switching.

Joe Hebert

Without seeing any relevant code makes it difficult to figure out your problem. To quote Jerry Maguire, “Help me…help you”, and post some code if you can.

DHawthorne

I don't use DEFINE_MUTUALLY_EXCLUSIVE for anything but relay output. There are too many quirks and hidden behaviors in buttons ... I think if I knew everything that went on under the hood in button feedback I could make them work, but I've decided it's not worth the effort. So I do what "mpullin" suggested, and put a stack of simple conditionals for button feedback.

the8thst

You could also do manual feedback like so:

define_variable

nSourceBtns[] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
dvTPs[] = {dvTP1,dvTP2,dvTP3,dvTP4}

define_event
button_event [dvTPs,nSourceBtns]
{
	push: {
		stack_var integer nSource
		
		nSource = get_last(nSourceBtns)
		
		off[dvTPs,nSourceBtns]                      // turn off all source buttons on all touch panels
		on[dvTPs,nSourceBtns[nSource]]        // turn on selected source button on all touch panels
		
		// do source switching here
	}
}