Strand Files

hi..

we get strand files all the time, we use showport, from the strand website too, it runs fine on our windows xp, we put the floppy disk with the strand file into the computer, then convert it in showport to asci, then we save it to usb, then put the usb into th congo, and it really doenst take that long either.. about 5mins to do. you should try to get it working.

it reads presets and used to only read up times, but now with software getting better its reading more things from files. some plotting will need to be done still depending on the size of the show, but we find it a big help!

claire

northern stage. newcastle

Claire,

did you do any thing different to get it to run on XP? when I tried it the program seemed to work but just stopped at analising (or equivalent) but when I put it into the (old, I could say steam powered) laptop it seems to have worked OK. I have yet to try it in anger as we have a show running and I don't want to spoil it

Matt 

unfortunatly i didnt do anything different! i dont know why it wont run on xp?! i did just download and it worked, i didnt fiddle with any settings or anything! so im sorry i cant help there!

claire

Riggwalker:

did you do any thing different to get it to run on XP? when I tried it the program seemed to work but just stopped at analising (or equivalent) but when I put it into the (old, I could say steam powered) laptop it seems to have worked OK.

Matt 

It works fine for me, one thing I learned, the program needs to be in your root directory e.g. c:\showport\showport.exe
I hope that helps....

Florian  

Riggwalker:

did you do any thing different to get it to run on XP? when I tried it the program seemed to work but just stopped at analising (or equivalent) but when I put it into the (old, I could say steam powered) laptop it seems to have worked OK.

Matt 

It works fine for me, one thing I learned, the program needs to be in your root directory e.g. c:\showport\showport.exe
I hope that helps....

Florian  

Flo is right. The key here is to make sure you put showport in a folder on the root drive then copy the .ssf to that folder. The resulting .ALQ file will be written to the same folder.

Copy this to a USB stick and OPEN in the console. The console does the .ALQ to .ASC convertion. With movers it will create new templates and all pallettes for the devices.

The things you won't get currently are Macros' as these are console specific and Effects as these are built differently in the 500 series consoles however we hope to have thihs sorted with a future release. 

 If you come across any thing that doesn't come across please let the development team know.