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Roli Dance

Some nice actions have been added to the latest update :-)

But with the differences a couple of programming questions arise. First one: how to play music and dance together?

In the old program the Dance action started together with the music, in both music editor and interface. Now the action is not started together with the music, neither in the music editor nor in the interface. I only could find a solution for the interface, where the old button script started both the music and action. But where was the action started when playing in the music editor?

Second: how to stop an action in music and script editor? There exists a Run button in the script editor, that seems to do nothing? In the music editor, Play started both the music and the action, but Stop only stops the music! For stopping the action I have to close the editor, then locate the AutoPosition window with the Stop button for the action. The new version requires to add actions in the music editor, but it also only allows to Play and Stop the music, not stopping the current script?

Now I'm missing some instructions in the tutorials, how to handle above issues. And I'm missing Stop buttons in the editors, that stop both the music and the related actions.

The Panic Release button also is unavailable as long as an editor window is open, increasing the panic when something goes wrong :-( And how to restore normal operation after pressing the Panic button?

And another one: how to put or edit text in the Notepad?


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What's the unit of Speed?

Granted, I am uneducated but it unclear what are you looking for. Do you want to know in miles/hour how fast it moves from position to position depending on what you set? Kilometers/second perhaps?

I dunno. Maybe it's good enough to know something along the lines that speed = 1 is a slower than speed = 10? I mean, I can tell that volume level 1 on my stereo is not as loud as level 10 without having to know the decibel difference between the two and it really doesn't matter all that much.

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There is no unit for the speed it is a scale from 0 to 10 with 0 being unaltered and 10 being slowest. Speed 1 is faster than speed 2. Speed 5 is faster than speed 8. Speed 9 is slower than speed 4.

Speed determines how quickly the servo will reach it's requested position. For example, if a servo speed of 10 is set on port D10 and a speed of 3 is set on port D11, both servos are currently at position 90 and a script or Auto Position requests position 120 the servo on port D11 will reach position 120 before the servo on port D10, this is provided the servos are identical in every way.

With setting the speeds, you must ensure a position is set prior to setting the speed.

All of this is taken from the EZ-Script manual. I do not have any involvement in the development of ARC and have not had any additional training or guidance that is not readily available for everyone.