New release of xlights/nutcracker 3.3.3 AND Tutorial Thursday, Apr 3 at 7pm MST

[smeighan]

Well it has been two months since the last nutcracker release! Wow, normally we have been averaging 4 per month.

So, I better get busy.

Release 3.3.3. Download new version from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

LSP Export now works!! A big thanks to Tom Langley for helping me reverse engineer the Patterns file for LSP 2.8.
The Text effect now has 4 lines of text instead of 2. If you put text in both Effect 1 and 2 you could have 8 different text strings, each going a different direction, each with their own font.

3.3.3   -Enhancement, requested (djulien): add Copy Effect Across Row menu item; copies selected cell (random effect) into other cells on the same row
      -Enhancement, (sean) Added two more lines of text to text effect. Now you can have 4 lines of text.
      -Bug fix (sean). Fixed LSP export. Yeah!
      -Enhancement, requested (djulien): allow user-specified format string with Countdown Text effect; format is <delim>target-date<delim>format-string
         for example: #4/1/2014 12:00:00#only %S seconds until noon on April 1!
         NOTE: don't use "," within Text; there is an XML parsing bug in xLights when the file is reloaded
      -Enhancement, requested (djulien): copy same random effect to all unlocked cells horizontally when Shift key used with Create Random Events button
      -Enhancement (djulien): write playback checkpoints to file for crash monitoring
      -Enhancement (djulien): add flag waving option to Pictures (useful for 4th of July, Memorial Day, etc)


I will give a tutorial covering this release on Thursday, April 3rd.
Topic: content of 3.3.3 release. Focus on exporting to LSP.
When: Thursday, Apr 3rd. 7pm MST, 9pm EST

We will be using teamviewer. Ill start session at 6:45pm MST

Please join the meeting, by clicking on this link:
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Meeting ID: m93-271-823

If you have a headphone click on the "Voice over IP" on the Teamviewer menu and unmute your headphone to be able to ask questions.

A BIG thanks to Don Julien. Don added 5 items into this release,, I added only 2.

thanks
sean

[smeighan]

Tom :Langley has made an excellent video tutorial for how to export a LSP sequence and paste it into LSP.

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great job tom!

sean

[drlucas]

Very nice additions Sean and team!! Looking forward to finishing my matrix build and testing out all the new features as they are exactly what I'm looking for!!