Suggestion: Make a copy of a Live Page

[RoyalJenner]

Hi
unless it's possible (I may have missed it) I would like to suggest the following suggestion for an improvement:

Make a quick copy of a Live Button Board possible. Ex: I have a master board set-up that contains all my scenes for gobo's 1 through 8 for 2 moving heads, they are named gobo 1 through 8 right or left. I would like to make one quick copy of that for use where I rename the buttons on the board based on the gigs requirement for special gobos that I have already placed into the units. Building a new board is tedious.

After the gig, I could just delete the copy and make a new copy (getting back to 1 through 8) and then re-name the different slots based on the next gobo's I've loaded. It eliminates the problem of me accidentally sliding the wrong gobo in the wrong position physically. It's easier to just rename the button.

Thanks

If you have a trick or tip to make this easier, I'm open to hearing from you. Thanks

[Arjan]

If you have a trick or tip to make this easier, I'm open to hearing from you. Thanks

In principle you could edit the live.ini file for your show with a simple text editor to create a copy of an existing page (EDIT: That's probably not what you want, look further down below for a better answer). Look in the folder

C:\Users\YourWindowsUserName\TheLightingController\LightShows\YourShowName\Live

and open the file live.ini. Here you see entries like this (lines below are from demo_show):

[page]
number = 4 Change this to 5 for this example
[page1]
name = mirror
nb_buttons = 5
swap = yes
[page1_button1]
line = 2
column = 2
name = mirror4
color = 16744703
title = mirror4
[page1_button2]
line = 1
column = 1
name = mirror1
color = 16744703
title = mirror1

To make a copy of page 1 'mirrors' copy each entry/section that has a header [page1...] and rename these sections in the copy to [page5...] (for this example).

Only complication is that there is no guarantee whatsoever that the page1_button... lines are actually all under the [page1] entry. Each [.....keyname.....] entry is completely separate in .ini files. But even doing this manually this is probably still gonna be faster than doing it through the user interface. It should also be easy to write a utility that can copy a page by modifying a live.ini file.

Actually if I understand you needs correctly after re-reading your post you could simply make a copy of the entire live.ini file, modify the live.ini (either manually or through the software) and then when you're done and need your original page copy the copied .ini file back to live.ini to restore it to the original state. Make sure the Live window is closed when you make these copies.

DISCLAIMER: I've been playing around with this software for just a few weeks (total use <10 hours) so the above may be incomplete, inaccurate or just plain wrong