Patching -display follows selection, replace

Just a couple of observations from someone who does mostly theatrical shows:

It would be great to have the patch window scroll to display the fixtures you have just patched or modified. This would eliminate scrolling through long lists of desk channels or scrollers to find the last thing you patched.

Also, it would save some patching time if you could explicitly replace a fixture patch point- for example if you know that your Source 4 with scroller was moved and plugged in to a different dimmer- then you could replace the intensity patch point with the new dimmer number. Currently, you would either have to unpatch the whole fixture and then repatch both fixture and intensity patch points, or patch the new intensity patch point, switch to "view by DP", find the correct DP and universe and then "unpatch @" the old dimmer.

And another nudge to please have the ability to bring up a dimmer without patching it to a channel.

-Todd
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  • Also, it would save some patching time if you could explicitly replace a fixture patch point- for example if you know that your Source 4 with scroller was moved and plugged in to a different dimmer- then you could replace the intensity patch point with the new dimmer number. Currently, you would either have to unpatch the whole fixture and then repatch both fixture and intensity patch points, or patch the new intensity patch point, switch to "view by DP", find the correct DP and universe and then "unpatch @" the old dimmer.


    - If you try "unpatch@universeA/dmxAAA >> fix. intens.@universeB/dmxBBB" do you still have to repatch the scroller?

    - In the fixture-patch-window you can see to what universes everything is patched, even if it's patched to more than 1 universe. So why bother to go to "view by DP" ?

    And another nudge to please have the ability to bring up a dimmer without patching it to a channel.


    Second that! Will save a lot of time searching for correct dimmerchannels in every new theater you visit
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  • Also, it would save some patching time if you could explicitly replace a fixture patch point- for example if you know that your Source 4 with scroller was moved and plugged in to a different dimmer- then you could replace the intensity patch point with the new dimmer number. Currently, you would either have to unpatch the whole fixture and then repatch both fixture and intensity patch points, or patch the new intensity patch point, switch to "view by DP", find the correct DP and universe and then "unpatch @" the old dimmer.


    - If you try "unpatch@universeA/dmxAAA >> fix. intens.@universeB/dmxBBB" do you still have to repatch the scroller?

    - In the fixture-patch-window you can see to what universes everything is patched, even if it's patched to more than 1 universe. So why bother to go to "view by DP" ?

    And another nudge to please have the ability to bring up a dimmer without patching it to a channel.


    Second that! Will save a lot of time searching for correct dimmerchannels in every new theater you visit
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