Colour Changing Buttons on Magic Sheets

Question

Hi All, 
 
 Just a quick one, working on a Gio - I have a 'control' style magic sheet with buttons to lamp on, turn midi receive on all the usual stuff. Is it possible, that for example when I hit the 'midi receive on' macro button on the MS, it changes colour to signify that is turned on for the operator during the run? I'm sure I have seen this done before I just can't seem to find a way to do it. 
 
 Thanks in advance, Matt.

ueliriegg · Accepted Answer

there are two workarounds (second one probably preferred) 
 
- a dummy channel that get's moved to 100 or to 0 in your macro. next to the macro button in magic sheet you have another object that is linked to that channels intensity. 
 
- create two color palettes, one has a dummy channel in red, the other one has the same channel in green. let's say they are CP 901 and 902. in your switch on macro you copy the green CP to CP 900, in your switch off macro you copy the red CP to CP 900. in your magic sheet you add an object that shows CP 900 and is linked to color. 
 
the advantage of the second workaournd is that youw will not create channel level that could mistakenly be recorded into cues and then when played back would cause false readings on your indicator.

Mike A · Answer

The other thing you can do if you can live with just the label on the button changing eg from "Midi On" to "Midi Off" is record two macros on for On lets say macro 101 and one for Off macro 102 and at the end of the ON macro put the command "Copy Macro 102 to 100" and at the end of the Off macro put "Copy Macro 101 to 100" and then on the magic sheet put a button for Macro 100 and set it to display its label rather than you typing in its text. Then each time you press the button its label will change from ON to OFF etc. (you obviously need to copy macro 101 to 100 the first time so 100 is set to something). 
 
I use this to run alternate setups, where I need a block of fixtures patched differently and want it obvious what mode my show is in. Click the button and it swaps over some pan/tilts and focus palettes and changes the label at the top of the sheet so the operator knows they are in the correct mode for that stage layout.