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More T2 Software Impressions
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Post 1 made on Wednesday April 26, 2000 at 01:48
DJ Garcia
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Well, I've spent many hours playing with the T2 software, learning and doing my graphical design for my devices. It's been a drag-n-drop fest, quickly moving things around and reconfiguring at will to try different strategies.

I've got my seven devices pretty much configured, both soft pages and hard buttons. I created an Excel spreadsheed with a graphical template for the hard buttons, so I can layout the commands visibly. For example, for the Preamp, the 12 numeric keypad buttons control six levels each for dialog and surround volume.

This software is a joy to use. There are a few small problems, as with any piece of coding, but it's incredibly well behaved and user friendly for such an early version.

The button editor tends to trash the upper part of my desktop when scrolling around the image at higher magnifications. This could be an incompatibility with the dual-head driver in my G-400 MAX graphics card under NT. It's still very usable and refreshing the desktop cleans most of it up.

My main beef here is that buttons have to be made up of one or more sections of a 2x6 matrix which is superimposed on the screen. It's actually very practical and makes designing very quick (nothing like having few options to speed up your decisions :-).

But I cannot have a symetrical eight button layout, which I would've preferred for the extra finger space over the 12 button layout. The 2x3 button layout is a bit wasteful except in some occasions (I like more choices :-). We'll have to see how easy it is to accurately hit the buttons in the 2x6 layout.

Please notice that my "beef" here is really kind of vegetarian. I just wanted to do something as a designer and found out I couldn't, which is always infuriating. I HAVE to complain about something!

I started doing an additional 11-20 keypad for my CD player. Imagine my shock when the 13 - 20 came up automatically as I edited the text in each successive button! It was kind of spooky :-). Surprises like this are much needed nowadays.

I've also started setting up the IR library netries I'll need for each device, which will make learning the codes a cinch (except that there's so many for the TA-E9000!). The way the librarian is structured makes it very easy.

Sorry for the long post! We eagerly (and patiently :-) await Daniel's review.

Cheers,

DJ
OP | Post 2 made on Wednesday May 10, 2000 at 15:32
wayne
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they have been using this software on the lexicon remotes for years.
OP | Post 3 made on Wednesday May 10, 2000 at 19:21
Daniel Tonks
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Just for reference, my full review should be up tomorrow.
OP | Post 4 made on Thursday May 11, 2000 at 00:12
DJ Garcia
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Daniel: Woo-Hoo!

Wayne: So the T2 software is an adaptation of the same software they use for the Lexicon? I guess that makes the Lexicon real easy to program, then :-). I take it you have experience with both?

DJ
OP | Post 5 made on Thursday May 11, 2000 at 19:57
SJHART
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Daniel,
Looking forward to your review!


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