Command Syntax - Interactive Technologies CueServer 2 User Manual

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Command Syntax

To make it easy to understand, CueScript uses simple human readable nouns, verbs and objects. These
pieces are put together into commands such as
Multiple commands can be strung together to make more complex requests. For example, to change the
fade time and set a DMX channel to 50% at the same time, the command
used.
White spaces in a command (spaces, tabs, new lines, etc.) are ignored by CueServer and are used to
simply make the commands more readable. Also, the semicolon (;) can optionally be used between
commands on a single line to make commands more readable. CueScript is not case-sensitive, meaning
that it doesn't matter if you use upper or lower case letters in a command. All of the following commands are
equivalent:
•
Time 5 Channel 3 at 50
•
time5channel3at50
•
Time 5; Channel 3 at 50
•
Time 5
Channel 3 at 50
Using Abbreviations
Also, to make CueScript more efficient to type and/or send, most CueScript command words may be
abbreviated. For example, the
For example, the previous example may be abbreviated as:
•
T5;C3@50
Only a few commands can be abbreviated as a single letter. For instance, the
same first letter as the
shortest abbreviation for
commands also have aliases – the
command may be abbreviated as Q1G.
Cue 1 Go
command may be abbreviated as just T,
Time
command. As documented in the descriptions of each command, the
Channel
is C, but the shortest abbreviation for
Channel
command can also be invoked by the single letter Q. Therefore, the
Cue
5, which sets the current fade-time to 5 seconds.
Time
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Time 5 Channel 3 at 50
as and
Channel C
command shares the
Cue
is Cu. However, some
Cue
is
as @.
At
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