patch: copy to shouldn't clear address

hey there

 

am i doing something wrong or is this by design? i have channel 1, which has part 1 for a moving light from the library and part 2 for its channel on a switchpack. both parts addressed and working. there is also channel 2 which has the same type of moving light as part 1, but no part two. it's also addressed and working too. i thought, ok, let's have the same part 2 for channel 2 (because else i can't powerOn both of them at the same time since in lampcontrol powerOn is greyed out). ch.2 p2 doesn't need an address because it doesn't exist. but that doesn't matter.

so i used "channel 1 part 2 copyTo channel 2 enter". works fine except that it clears the dmx address of ch.1 p1. ok, undo, write down the address, same procedure again and set the address again. but is there an idea behind it, that i don't get? i think it should leave the address, esp. since it's not about the same part. (actually, for me not even "channel 1 copyTo channel 2 enter" should clear the address as long as the fixture in ch.2 is the same as in ch.1)...

 

cheers from switzerland

felix

 



[edited by: felixgeiger at 3:07 PM (GMT -6) on Fri, Feb 18 2011] typo
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