2.2 getting direct selects in CIA and display issue

Funny, I was just going to ask about ML Controls and here is a similar post. I really liked and used often the ML in the CIA popping up automatically when an appropriate fixture was selected or just hitting the Browser to pop it up when they are selected. Yes, I do use the MS for almost everything now and I personally never use DS any longer, but the ML controls is still a valuable thing for me so I don't have to have so many things on the MS; different gobos for different fixtures, different effects for different fixtures, different strobes for different fixtures, etc. so I am very used to using the ML controls that way. Now I just have them as a tab which I click on when I am working with an appropriate fixture but sure will miss the auto pop up feature.

This is a very new version so open to suggestions.

AND when I installed 2.2 I was afraid it would completely change how things appeared on the screens in my shows forcing me to have to learn the new ways quickly. Well, Thank You ETC for whatever you did. When I installed 2.2 and opened a show file everything still came up the same for the most part and now I can gradually learn the new ways. Happy, Happy, Happy.

I haven't pulled down 2.2 yet - it sounds like ML Controls is gone?  That's kind of unfortunate, is there anything to take its place?  I really liked using it to control VMS content and effects, for using V*L timing channels, and a few other things.  Is all that just on the encoders now?

-Jason

I haven't pulled down 2.2 yet - it sounds like ML Controls is gone?  That's kind of unfortunate, is there anything to take its place?  I really liked using it to control VMS content and effects, for using V*L timing channels, and a few other things.  Is all that just on the encoders now?

-Jason

Hi Jason,

ML Controls is very much still in the software. 

v2.2 took all of the existing modules previously listed in the 'Virtual Controls' menu of the Browser and made them accessible as a Tab when creating a new frame in layout or hitting the "+" symbol adjacent to the tabs list on each frame.

It was possible in pre-v.2.2 software to 'star' ML Controls as a 'favorite' so when Displays was pressed, ML Controls would immediately pop up in the CIA.  Since ML Controls can no longer be opened in the CIA (but can be opened as a Tab), you can no longer mark it as a favorite.

I noticed that if you have an older file with a snapshot that had the direct selects in the CIA, that they will still appear there under 2.2 if you recall that snapshot.  However, the minute you touch the "star" symbol and deselect it as your favourite, it is gone for good.