Button Properties; Active And Inactive And The Action List; Selected Or Unselected - Marantz RC5000 Manual

Guide to RC5000 Setup © 2000 Marantz America, Inc.

Button Properties

A and I and the Action List
CTIVE NACTIVE
When you program just one step in a Button's action list, you make the button A .That step
CTIVE
can be anything: a jump, a delay, a learned IR command, an alias, etc.
Making a button A is important. Remember, the RC5000 makes I buttons invisible.
CTIVE NACTIVE
However, in RC5000 Setup you can see a button whether it is programmed or not. By defining
different colors for the two states, you can define how a button looks when it is I or
NACTIVE
A (meaning is there something in the Action list or not?).That way, in RC5000 Setup, you
CTIVE
can see at a glance whether you've programmed a button Action list yet.
Click on these tabs to view or modify
other button properties.
A button's action list, like all action lists
in RC5000 Setup, is quasi-limited to
255 steps. You can place an Alias in the
Action list A to Button B which has 255
steps. Thus when Button A is pressed,
all steps in action list A are executed
and all 255 steps of action list B are
executed. If you want more than 255
Action List
steps, you can nest macros inside
macros to get the effect you want.
Nothing we can recommend, however,
will encourage your spouse to sit still
for a macro that long...
For details on the controls of the Action
List, see page 32.
OK saves changes and closes Button
Properties, Apply saves changes leav-
ing the window open and Cancel dis-
cards changes and closes the window.

Selected or Unselected

For many button properties you can change the way a button appears by defining whether it is
Selected (it's just been pressed and it is now executing the action list) or Unselected (it is just a
pretty button sitting on a panel, waiting for someone to push it). In RC5000 Setup you can use
Selected and Unselected as feedback to a user. By placing a different icon or programming a
change in a button's text or background color when a button is Selected (just been pressed),
you can make the user aware that the RC5000 is busy doing something for them.
The convention used in the Version 2 default RC5000 file is to change the color of the button
label when it is selected from White on Black (Unselected) to Dark Grey on Black (Selected).
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