Using Radio Buttons but would like to return to different points in a Main loop

[HoneyBearUK]

Hi Ken, Hopefully you can give me some pointers for the below :-

I'm using the current version of PiPresents - 1.3.5c

My program has been working fine for some months. It consists of a RadioButtonShow (10 buttons) and a 'Main_Loop of some 200 + images. Currently when returning from any of the '10' selections (Sel_1 to Sel_10) the 'Main_Loop' starts at slid one.

I would like to remodel my solution so when returning from 1 of the 10 selections i start at a different point in the 200 images.

My thoughts are:-

1. Split the 200 images into 10 sets of 20 images i.e. 'Main_Loop_1 to Main_loop_10' and at the end of a Sel_x the program would go to one of the 'Loops' and then continue to the next loop and the next loop (like the loop was never broken) until another Sel_x button is pressed.

2. Leave the 'Main_Loop' in tack and when returning from one of the Sel_x's go to a specified slide number. i.e. Come out of Sel_2 then open Main_Loop play Slide 40.

Any guidance would be much appreciated, I've tried many combinations but with no success.

Keep up the good work with the marvelous program. Many thanks, Stewart

[KenT2]

Hi I think this will work, you need the very latest version of gapless which you have. You need 10 radiobuttonshows, they are identical except that each has one tenth of the images in the main loop. Each track played from the main show must be a show and 'Allow controls in subshows' needs to be enabled in the radiobuttonshow In the shows played from the radiobuttonshow use the 'show control on event' field to define pp-stop to be 'openexclusive show-x' where show-x is one of the other radiobuttonshows.

[HoneyBearUK]

Hi Ken, Thanks, I think i understand. I will give it a try in the next few evenings and let you know how it goes.

[HoneyBearUK]

Hi Ken,

I’ve been trying to get this going for a few hours now with little success.

To keep my testing simple to start with, I have 3 RadioButtonShows, Radio_Test_1, Radio_Test_2 and Radio_Test_3, each with 4 tacks as Shows in them. Track one is mapped to the a media file containing 1/10 of the images (well just four at the moment) named Loop_1, Loop_2 and Loop_3. The other 3 tracks in each RadioButtonShow are mapped to Show_1, Show_2 and Show_3. These 3 shows just contain some Message slides to tell me where I am. In each RadioButtonShow in ‘Controls’ I have the links for Show_1, Show_2 and Show_3.

At this stage I can test each RadioButtonShows as a separate unit and they play the Loop_x and will play the Show_x’s on demand.

If I now set ‘Show – Controls in Subshow’ to ‘Yes’ the Shows no longer start. The program I’ve been using for some time is also set on ‘No’ and the Show_x’s work fine, so I have left it set to ‘No’ for now.

Now the next bit I’m not convinced I’m doing what you are suggested.

radiobuttonshow use the 'show control on event' field to define pp-stop to be 'openexclusive show-x'

By ‘Show Control on Event’ do you mean ‘Show Control at beginning’ –

   Ken -  In E mail reply there is a picture in here

I have tried entering ‘openexclusive Radio_Test_x’ in the indicated box and the whole programme just starts and finishes in a spit second as it runs through the shows showing just a blank (black) screen.

If I place the above string in the ‘Show Control at End’ box the program will loop through each Loop_x as expected but the Shows no longer Start on demand I just get a frozen Black screen.

Have I just total misinterpreted the last part of your mail?

Hopefully the above will make some sense to you.

Many thanks. Best regards, Stewart

p.s. At least I understand the program and it working a lot better know, it’s surprising what six hours of trying things can do 😊

[KenT2]

My mistake, you need Version 1.4.1 of PP (pipresents-beep) to get show control on event. I have prepared a little profile that should do what you want. Its different to my description in the previous reply as I realised there is a simpler way to do it. honey.zip

[HoneyBearUK]

Hi Ken,

Thank you for your help so far, the new feature ‘show control on event’ is great.

I started working with the RadioButtonShow and after getting to understand the ‘show control on event’ function I felt the RadioButtonShow layer was not needed, I also didn’t get it fully functioning.

  Working with the radio button I could get most of it to work, let me try and explain the set up –
  3 x RadioButtonShow s
  3 x Shows
  3 x loops 

  RB1 has Show_1, Loop_1, Loop_2 and Loop_3
  RB2 has Show_2, Loop_1, Loop_2 and Loop_3
  RB3 has Show_3, Loop_1, Loop_2 and Loop_3

  The loops would continually cycle through 1 to 3 then back to 1 etc – OK
  While in the ‘Loops’ I could openexclusive RB_x showing Show_x from the assigned buttons.
  If I tried to select while in the Show_x the screen would just go Blank/Black.

Moving on I now have a full working unit without using RadioButtonShow

  3 x Loops
  3 x Shows

  The Loops have in the ‘Show Control on Event’ field - show_x openexclusive Show_x  (x = 1 to 3). The 
  last track in the Loop_x is an OpenShow looping to the next ‘Loop’. Shows are set to ‘Single-run’

  The Shows have in the ‘Show Control on Event’ field - show_x openexclusive Show_x  (x = 1 to 3). The 
  last track in the Show_x is an OpenShow  start the appriate Loop_x

  Now from anywhere in a Loop or Show I can select any Show to view and at the end of that show the 
  appropriate Loop will start and then continue through the loops until another show is selected.

Sample program attached

Stewart_Sample.zip

[KenT2]

Show Control on Event was added almost by mistake. It was a failed attempt to implement beeps but was too slow for that purpose. However now it's there I can see it's a potentially very powerful feature to make all sorts of exotic applications