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proelee1-Visitor
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May 24, 2007
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Running Trail files

  • May 24, 2007
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How do you loop a trail file to run for a demo? I can run one but it
seems not to loop if I cut and paste the first half of the file again.
Also how do you put in the time delay to slow it down?



Thanks for any help.



Lee McGee

Sr. Product Engineer

Recessed Lighting

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    MarcMettes1-Visitor
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    May 25, 2007
    > How do you loop a trail file to run for a demo? I can run one
    > but it seems not to loop if I cut and paste the first half of
    > the file again. Also how do you put in the time delay to slow
    > it down?

    I had to do something like this for a "family day" event. The
    trick is to combine a trail file and a mapkey.

    Create a mapkey that runs your trail file. At the end of your
    trail file, include a sequence to run the mapkey again. Mapkey
    starts trail file, trail file starts mapkey, endless loop.
    You'll have to kill the session to stop it.

    The config.pro option TRAIL_DELAY slows down trail files, but
    don't use it. You can't set the delay to less than 1 sec,
    which makes the playback painfully slow.

    I had a couple of different mapkeys to slow things down, all
    were "OS Script" mapkeys that run external programs. A couple
    ran a script that went to sleep for 1, 2 or 5 seconds. This
    would allow someone watching a drawing being created to see
    the final result, before blasting onto the next task. The
    other mapkey ran a program to display a predefined message in
    a dialog box, which usually occurred during a pause. Let's
    the user know what's going on or about to happen.

    Definitely many other ways to do it .... could just record a
    session to a movie or flash file.


    Marc
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