Working with Live Manager
  

  
  
  


  
  
Live manager is a separate application that allows you to load and control CG projects.

    Live Manager application being linked with the CG by TCP/IP, the changes from each project will be automatically loaded for each project.

  MagicSoft CG Studio graphical interface has several elements:
      1. Tool Bar
      2. Project controller
      3. Status bar
  


  
  
The Toolbar has several sub-menus

Sub-menu Project contains :
Open Project (opens and load a project in the CG)
Stop All (stops all projects)

Hide/Unhide allows you to check from a list of all loaded projects the projects that you want to hide
(by default all projects are visible)

Reconnect command will reconnect the application to the CG

Always on top command will make the application to be displayed on top of all applications that runs on your computer.
  


  
  
Settings opens a settings dialog that contains:
          - project default directory
          - TCP/IP address
  


  
  
Project controller Each project that runs in the CG has a corresponding "Project controller" in Live manager.

Each project controller has a title bar that shows the path , the name and on air status of the project.

Each project controller has a menu for:
 Refresh on air status asks the CG about the status of the project
 Reload project template will load the project again in the Live manager
 Hide will hide the project so it will not appear in the Live Manager but the project run in CG
 Import text allows you to import the data into the grid from a tab delimited .txt file
 Export text allows you to export the data from the grid in a tab delimited .txt file
  


  
  
Each project controller has buttons for Play, Stop, FFW commands

       For Ticker and Game-script projects there are buttons for "Pause" and "Resume" that are specific for this kind of projects

       For Ticker and Crawl projects it is possible to set the speed by adjusting the edit box's value
  


  
  
Depending of the type of the project, the project controller can show a grid that allows you to edit the text or image to be dynamically assigned for Text or Image items.

      A resize button allows you to adjust the vertical size in order to increase the size of the grid.
  


  
  
Live Manager allows you can to control the characteristics of the Timer project:
- the starting and stopping time
- the format of the displayed counter

There is a command to "Show" the counter ( by unchecking this the timer value will not be displayed On Air but will increment/decrement during this time)

Also the counter increment/decrement will stop if the "Counting" check-box is not checked
  


  
  
Status bar appears at the bottom of the Live Manager window and shows the connection status