Hi im quite new to prontoscripts and was wondering if any 1 can help, what i need to do is get my movie buttton to start a macro but one thing i need it to do is go to my dynalite lighting script thats controlling my projecting screen and tell my screen to go down then, do all the easy ir stuff such as turn the amp etc

any help would be great thanks

I have checked some other post and i think im supposed to be writting this, CF.widget("Button2,1","dynPage1","dynAct").executeActions();

but it doesnt seem to work button2,1 is the widget (got this from the actions page in the button in the dynalite pronto script im trying to trigger) dynpage is the page name (i got this from the advanced tab under prontoscript name: on the page the button is located on within the script, and dynact is the activity i got this for (i got this from the advanced tab pronto script name: in the activity properties page within the dynalite pronto script

so maybe im getting something wrong please help!!

I'm not sure - but from your post I think that Button2,1 has prontoscript on it, and you are trying to run that prontoscript from somewhere else by calling executeActions()?

If so - you can't do that. You cannot execute a buttons prontoscript from anywhere except when the button is pressed.

If that is what you are trying to do, you have two choices. The easy (but bad) way :

Copy the prontoscript from that button to your movie button.

The harder (but good way) :

Move the prontoscript for Button2,1 somewhere else (e.g. at an Activity level) wrapped inside a function - and call that function from the Movie button and from your existing dynalite button.

Obviously option 2 only works if your movie button and your dynalite button are on the same device / activity. If they're not, you really may as well just copy the button script.

Dave is correct. You cannot execute prontoscript on a button that you do not physically press on the screen (using links in PEPv1).

Also, ProntoScript is not "shared" between activities. That is, when you leave one activity to go to another and the return to previous, any state of previous activity is lost and it restarts from scratch unless you somehow save/restore state using System.setGlobal()/getGlobal().

If you need your screen control and some other script active concurrently and don't want to do what I suggest above, you need to "merge" 2 activities moving pages, copying/merging activity script as needed to make a single activity that contains pages from both of your original activities.

FYI, also, for common "chunks" of code that you might want to reuse throughout your config, consider putting said code into a panel label and then doing from the activity/page script...

this.eval(CF.widget('mypanelscript','scriptspage','scriptsactivity').label);

This will compile the script in the panel label including any var or functions and make them avaiable in the current PS Object (button, page or activity).

Search for last 2 years for +eval( and you can read more about the possibilities.