Adding Hardware to Panels , etc, etc, etc.

[nnyerges]

Hellow Russel,

1. It’s wonderful that you can create your own instruments and hardware scripts, even save export them for backup or editing, but when the times come to design a panel, you can only add instruments to a panel in “Create/Edit”, no hardware. A lot of instruments have physical hardware involved and adding them just in the “Home” tab without any backup is sometimes a really hard work if you are designing multiple panels and setups.

This throws our first suggestion: Include a “hardware” tab to the panel information window in "Create/Edit".

By now, we program all hardware scripts the same way like instruments, so they can be added in the panel information window in "Create/Edit", like instruments (incongruent but it work).

Actually, this method we use throws a interesting question: Is there any difference on memory/cpu payload between programming a script and saving it like an instrument or hardware script? I suppose not!

2. Add the same export capability to the “Home" tab, called BACKUP or SAVE. Is not really an export thing, but is a backup thing. We figured out to save the folder, but it will be nice have this in just one click.

Have a nice day.

[Sling]

All what you propose here is already possible just not in the way you propose. The community has discussed the 2 places to create panels before and I think the general thoughts were it’s not intuitive. The current Home tab used to be called the Panel tab which added to the confusion but at least that is now not a concern. The graphical instrument adding combined in the create/edit tab with the existing panel creation tools is the ideal in my eyes and others. The Home tab should simply be like a Air Player tab that just handles the displaying of panels and their settings.

I’ve said all this before but for what it’s worth my 2 cents on the matter.