ASCII and the Congo

Hi all,

I am wondering if someone can help me out with an ASCII transfer question. I am very familiar with ASCII transfer of cues and other data on many consoles. I work for a dance company and we keep most of our road cues in ASCII because of the ease of cutting and pasting a show together. The last two times that I have tried to import a ASCII cue file into a Congo (once a Congo and once a Jr.) I have lost the end of the cue list. The first time it dropped about 15 cues (on the Jr), and this last time we lost 2. Are there space limitations (seems unlikely)? Being that we were on the road and I didnt have a lot of experimentation time we just typed in the cues and moved on with life, but I wondered what the real answer was.. or if anyone else had encountered such a thing.

One other question.. when I import I lose all of my zero count cue times. Is it because there is nothing listed as a time in the ASCII file and the Congo doesnt translate it to a zero? Im sure that there is a good reason, Im just not sure what it is.

Thanks for the help.

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Anders Ekvall over 15 years ago

There should be no space limitations and I cannot imagine why all cues aren't read.
Do you have a show file where I can test this (and the 0 time issue)? Please send it to me and I will have a look.
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CSCLD over 15 years ago in reply to Anders Ekvall

Here is the Congo ASC file for Mexico. If I can find the NJ file for the Junior I will send it along
thanks
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Mexico Congo.asc
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Anders Ekvall over 15 years ago in reply to CSCLD

I have tested with your show file and it seems to load fine. All cues are included.
However, it isn't a valid ASCII light cues file since it is missing all the header information as just starts with cues directly.
From which console do you get this file?

About the zero times: Since the Congo doesn't know which console the file comes from (since there is no header), it cannot handle zero times.
For example, if it was a Strand console, zero times would be translated to 0.1 times to be preserved. This is because in Congo, a zero time means that the default GO time should be used.
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CSCLD over 15 years ago in reply to Anders Ekvall

OK...

Good start. The file was created the Expression 3.1 OLE. The header is missing because the show had already been patced and i was expecting to add the Congo patch in place of the Expression.

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CSCLD over 15 years ago in reply to Anders Ekvall

OK...

Good start. The file was created the Expression 3.1 OLE. The header is missing because the show had already been patced and i was expecting to add the Congo patch in place of the Expression.

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Anders Ekvall over 15 years ago in reply to CSCLD

If you have a complete show file that doesn't load properly, please send it to me so that I can check it.
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