Remote controlling G Force Toolbar

[samcheri]

Any one tried remote controlling the toolbar?
I would like to be able to activate random particles, snapshot and random picture (the three buttons under the large logo you press to get to the GF website); anyone know any keyboard shortcuts for these three buttons? I looked at the available documentation but there is no info re: keyboard shortcuts

[MEM]

Yes I use it! But you have to buy a commercial lic. to activate and use. It was well worth for me. Now to have the music in 5.1 and G-force running on the 42' screen and to sit back and control from my laptop. Very nice work of Andy's.

[samcheri]

do you mean you can actually do the random particles, take snapshots and do photos and video by wireless remote control? using g force by wireless remote control is easy; how does one control the functions of the toolbar by remote control- without using a mouse or keyboard? any help will be highly appreciated.
thank you

[MEM]

Yes all wireless though the network. You have a seperate remote toolbar on the laptop that is controling your g-force on anouther pc. So, you are never are touching the mouse or keyboard on the main PC. I have had alot of fun with it snappingpic's of people who come over and then sending them to the background folder of g-force and as it goes and them they find themselves being part of the visulasion of the large screen.

[BeatFreqDC]

I just purchased a commercial license and I can't find any documentation on using the remote toolbar to control G-Force over a network. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Matt

[MEM]

You mush download Rendezvous from the apple website. this is a zero network program. Install on both machines. Open music player , G-force and toolbar on one PC. set toolbar setting for remote network. open toolbar on other PC set for remote network & control in ( this will be set to your other PC. all these settings are in toolbar pulldown menu underpreferences.

Good Luck
Let Me know how you make out.

Michael

[hopla]

So how can I start scripts from the remote computer?

[MEM]

Images and Video in the pull down menu. If there is a corasponding txt file to it then the text file will be run for it with your progammed config for it.

[beeblebrox]

The only issue with remote control may be that the G-Force toolbar doesn't fit on a 1024x768 screen (such as found on an iBook or 12" PB.).

Maybe the final version of the toolbar could go fullscreen (by going wider rather than taller) so that a small laptop could be used as a remote control?

[MEM]

Not sure about Apple, Sorry. I am a windows user and the toolbar works well on my Laptop w/ 14" Screen. can have toolbar and top 2 drop down menus open at once on screen.

[beeblebrox]

Not sure about Apple, Sorry. I am a windows user and the toolbar works well on my Laptop w/ 14" Screen. can have toolbar and top 2 drop down menus open at once on screen.

Not really a Mac issue but rather, a resolution issue. The important question is, can it run on a 1024x768 screen? Right now, the toolbar requires more vertical resolution than that.

My suggestion would be to have it go no taller than 768 pixels, even if that means going to a wider format toolbar.

[andy55]

I just purchased a commercial license and I can't find any documentation on using the remote toolbar to control G-Force over a network. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Matt

You're probably already passed this point, but we made a FAQ entry that may be useful to you:

http://www.soundspectrum.com/g-force/Do ... otecontrol

Note that since you already have a professional license code in hand, you can use the toolbar to enable remote control (instead of having to do an annoying text file edit).

Andy

[andy55]

Not sure about Apple, Sorry. I am a windows user and the toolbar works well on my Laptop w/ 14" Screen. can have toolbar and top 2 drop down menus open at once on screen.

Not really a Mac issue but rather, a resolution issue. The important question is, can it run on a 1024x768 screen? Right now, the toolbar requires more vertical resolution than that.

My suggestion would be to have it go no taller than 768 pixels, even if that means going to a wider format toolbar.

hm.... interesting idea... i guess my question is, in what cases do all the sub panes of the toolbar need to be open at the same time?

andy

[MEM]

I use tit with two sub panels down so that I can set and change as i go. Switching images or setting as a config. Ican just tab the actives i want running at any given time. As said though my laptop with 14" lcd has no prblem doing so, But I do not know about the MAC toolbar if different than Windows toolbar.

[beeblebrox]

I always need access to:

• Quickcontrol
  Sprites and Particles
  Waveshapes/Colormaps/flowfields
  Display prefs (the "thinner/thcker" control is quite valuable for varying the look of a waveshape during a performance)
  Audio Input (I need to constantly monitor the sensitivity and responsiveness depending on the type of music

Unless a laptop was running at ultra high resolutions (over 1024 vertically) then this will not fit.

My 12" PB is only 1024 x768 so I can see about half of the needed toolbar panes.
Running my 19" LCD on the G5 at 1280x1024 is still not tall enough.

If a feature is added to have presets then this will only exacerbate the vertical real estate problem.

My suggestion is to make the toolbar wider (i.e. 2 columns).


Cheers.

P.S. MEM - An Apple computer is called a "Mac", not a MAC. MAC stands for Media Access Control and is a network hardware term. See http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/ASCC/docume ... ddrss.html for an explanation.