Special Characters For Text; Maximizing Message Integrity - Christie Crimson Technical Reference

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Special characters for text (on page 10)
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Special characters for text

To use special characters in the API commands, you must use a two-character combination.
Special character
"
\
(
)
Line break
Send arbitrary code

Maximizing message integrity

For additional reassurance and/or maximum message integrity, insert one or two special characters.
Message Description
requirement
Acknowledgments For assurance from Crimson (or group of projectors) that a set message has been
processed, request an acknowledgment.
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Description
characters. Values less than the predefined size are padded with leading zeros
as needed. Parameters which have negative signs are zero padded after the
negative sign, and have one less digit to make space for the sign.
• Data in set messages to Crimson do not require padding with zeros.
• Within each message, multiple parameters of data must be separated by one
space character.
• Text parameters such as channel names are enclosed in double quotes following
the data, as in Name.
Most data is simply a numerical value, however some messages also require text.
For example, a channel naming message typically includes a text-based name—
enclose this text in double quotation marks, as in "Tilt the Wagon". For example, the
time command requires time to be provided in text enclosed in double quotation
mark, as in "19:45:23". Use all characters as required except for special characters—
these require a two-character combination.
Two-character
combination
\"
\\
\(
\)
\n
\h##
Communicating with Crimson
Description
Double quotation mark
Backslash
Left bracket
Right bracket
New line —If the text can be displayed on more than
one line, this sets the line break.
Sends one arbitrary code defined by the two
hexadecimal digits ##.
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