Copy fixture definitions to another computer

[Xonxoff]

Hey team,

I'm sure this must've been asked before but I searched the forum and didn't find the answer.

What's the easiest way to move fixture definitions to another computer?

Background: I tend to use a laptop at home to program the lights and then take to project to a machine to use live. I have a Dropbox share between both machines with the Qlcplus project file and that works fine.

It's just that there's no automatic way to get the fixtures across that I know of.

I'm worried that I'll get to the live computer and have forgotten to manually copy across a fixture definition.

Am I missing something obvious? Is there a way to get fixtures to automatically copy? Would it be a good feature request to have fixtures saved in the project file?

Cheers!

Mark

[mcallegari]

https://www.qlcplus.org/docs/html_en_EN ... swers.html

Number #4

[Xonxoff]

Yeah, thanks, I know about this, but I'm wondering if there's a better/automatic way to keep definitions up to date across multiple computers. I guess, there isn't

Cheers

[GGGss]

I use dropbox for that reason and before setting up - copy all contents to user files.
After the show -> copy all to dropbox and all my current and future computers will sync.
It's a good way to keep versions and backups.

[jlgtx]

Is there a way to set a custom path for the user files?

[janosvitok]

Is there a way to set a custom path for the user files?

I don't think there is.

On windows you may replace the fixture dir with junction to another place if that helps.
See for example: https://mywindowshub.com/how-to-create- ... indows-10/

Jano

[GGGss]

to add to this ... in the latest version, fixture definitions may be included in the project directory...
ehhm .. wait for a second .. gone first try that before making this statement.

-edit- No! The above statement of mine is false.
@massimo, wasn't this on the roadmap?

[mcallegari]

From version 4.12.5 changelog:
engine: fixture definitions are now searched in the project folder too

[GGGss]

From version 4.12.5 changelog:
engine: fixture definitions are now searched in the project folder too

And somehow this does not work.
Renamed the users/x/qlc+/fixtures to fixtures.bak
Created a new Fixtures folder (empty) inside users/x/qlc+/
Created a folder. Copied one (1) custom fixture definition in that folder and copied a project inside that folder also.
Restarted QLC+, open the project inside that folder.
Try to add that custom fixture to the project.
No avail.

...unless the project does need a reference to the custom fixture __before__ putting it inside the project folder...
Let's try this.
NO : No fixture definition found for #customFixture

I'm sorry

[mcallegari]

The workflow is:
- create your project as usual, even with custom fixtures
- save
- copy custom qxf fixtures in the same location of the project
- move the project folder on another PC that doesn't have custom fixtures

Custom fixtures are loaded from the project folder.

For "adding" fixtures you need to copy the custom fixtures to the usual system/user folders

[pandas]

Is there a way to set a custom path for the user files?

Yes use filesystem links. It works well.