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xLights is a sequencer for Lights. xLights has usb and E1.31 drivers. You can create sequences in this object oriented program. You can create playlists, schedule them, test your hardware, convert between different sequencers.
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Add Aliases to Export Models Spreadsheet #4566

Closed ItsFitz closed 2 months ago

ItsFitz commented 2 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This is not related to a problem.

Describe the solution you'd like Please add a field in the Export Models spreadsheet containing a list of Aliases associated with each Model and Model Group.

Why do I want this? Using the "Add Aliases" button on the Import Effects window could add a lot of possibly unwanted aliases to the models. Looking at a complete list of aliases will help review aliases quicker than clicking the aliases button for each model or model group. You could create a new pop-up window to manage aliases; but that is more effort. I think reviewing aliases in a spreadsheet is good enough for me.

Describe alternatives you've considered Clicking Aliases on every individual model and model group. This takes a long time.

This is not a recommended alternative; but I could view/parse the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file. Keith says "Don't do it!"

Additional context The alias list could be it's own tab in the exported spreadsheet and formatted similar to the Models column in the Groups tab.

Thanks for considering this enhancement. Fitz

cybercop23 commented 2 months ago

Yup... this is something that we are considering. We now have aliases at all levels, groups, models and submodels. so we need to find out if/how we should handle groups and submodels.

cybercop23 commented 2 months ago

Will be available in the nightly build and next version.Will be available in the nightly build and next version.