What Would Cause Automation To Vanish?

[NeoMorph]

Last night I had to totally uninstall G5 and reinstall it because my automation tab vanished completely. I had to uninstall first because just reinstalling over the top had zero effect... so it must be something in the settings that had trashed the automation tab.

Anyone know why the automation tab would vanish so and if it happens again how would I go about getting it back without having to uninstall and reinstall.?

[rpalmer68]

Last night I had to totally uninstall G5 and reinstall it because my automation tab vanished completely. I had to uninstall first because just reinstalling over the top had zero effect... so it must be something in the settings that had trashed the automation tab.

Anyone know why the automation tab would vanish so and if it happens again how would I go about getting it back without having to uninstall and reinstall.?

Too much morphine..... sorry couldn't resist!

[NeoMorph]

Too much morphine..... sorry couldn't resist!

Oh god... I think I'm going http://www.neomorph.net/smiley/yahoo_silly.gif

[Ron]

Did you install any plugins? outside of the normal install?

[NeoMorph]

Did you install any plugins? outside of the normal install?

The opposite actually... I was removing plugins that I wasn't using. I was going to leave the serial plugin and a couple more but then the automation vanished... Poof!... taking the Nokia plugin I was testing.

I don't think I did anything else.

[Ron]

Did you take out the treescript plugin?

[NeoMorph]

Did you take out the treescript plugin?


Ahh I may have done.

What about putting a radioactive sign next to that plugin to deter users from removing it. :D

Seriously though, I only actually started playing with treescripts today and didn't know what they were at the time. I was trying to remove all the unused stuff and I didn't think I was going to add automation to the trees in the garden (the plugin is "Tree Scripts" as opposed to "Treescripts") so I guess I thought "Not used.. ByeBye".)

At least I can count today in the positive column. I've learned a load about scripting today including the strange relay from UI to Treescript to Plugin. I only found out what the DUI editor was too. I also stayed away from that as I'm sadly teetotal these days (half a lager and I'm flat on my back heh). I mean what is a Drunk Under the Influence Editor when it's about. I'd even spent time looking around for a decent XML editor :rolleyes: Once I found the XML editor I had to look something up about the UI GUID values and found out what the DUI is actually for. God I felt such a nana!

I even managed to get the SMS script working more reliably which was amazing as the actual fix was suggested by Rob H a few days ago but I had forgotten so the congrats should really go to him. The fix was pretty much just adding an extra if/end group to weed out the fake message packets and it did the job.

Ron you need to add treescripting to your tutorials... it's a real must for noobies (and oldbies). Mind you I liked tracking down the flow of the code for once.

John is definately a happy camper today! :D

[Ron]

Glad that was the trouble. Yeah treescript is quite crucial to Girder these days. A tutorial about it would be advanced stuff. So that will come after I've done the beginner, intermediate stuff.

- Ron

[NeoMorph]

Ron I posted a VERY basic tutorial for setting up Girder with NetRemote in the G4 forum. It's basically a simple guide for seeing how girder and netremote interact along with a ccf and gml to go with the instructions.

http://www.promixis.com/forums/showthread.php?p=119186#post119186

That's the sort of stuff I would have loved to see when I started as it shows how NetRemote sends the message to Girder and how Girder sends a message back to NetRemote. It needs some more work to make it a proper tutorial (for instance how curly brackets holds variables in NetRemote and square brackets in Girder - why is that btw?) but the guy who asked just wanted to know how to get actions working in Girder from NetRemote.