focus widget designer input

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focus widget designer input

Postby jsormani » Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:40 am

Hi Is there a list of input nodes )and other input) of widget designer that need focus ( WD as foreground application)?
This would make it easier to decide whether WD can be on a pc together with player or not

For instance Keyboard input needs focus, artnet input also functions when wd is the background application.
So what about xkeys, serial, udp etc?

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Re: focus widget designer input

Postby Markus Zeppenfeld » Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:00 pm

Hi John,

all nodes are running in the background. So do all external inputs like fader boards or other midi controllers.
The only thing which needs focus on the widget is the keyboard input as you will never transmit the keyboard strokes when the Widget is not active.

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Re: focus widget designer input

Postby jsormani » Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:12 pm

Hi Markus
Good to hear that all the external input is being processed in the background. It's a pity that the keyboard and mouse strokes are not. I regularly use HID controllers that simulate keyboard input but the front end of it might be a contact closure but more often a capacitive touch button set. For fixed installations this would be a nice control setup (start show ,standby) but to use it with WD i would need to use an extra pc just for that which makes it too expensive

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