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Hello clever people, 

I'm trying to find a way to fire BARCO E2 presets from within the ROSS environment.  I know just enough terminology to get myself in trouble, but have never really ventured down the Rosstalk path before and I'm not a Java programmer.

As far as I can see the BARCO can take some basic commands via telnet, but that raises that question of how to fire a telnet 'batch' command from within the Ross universe (I'm thinking it's a Custom Panel > CustomCode > CustomCode).

Not looking for code, just checking to see if I'm on the correct path.  Examples would not be refused tho' :D

In theory it's quite a simple ask,

"Hello machine, you don't know me, that doesn't matter, could you please do this? ... thank you!"

I can switch my brain into coding mode, but the last time I coded anything in anger was on an Amiga (the world only had 16 million colours back then), so I was wondering if anyone else has been reckless enough to have tried this before I go breaking things?

I guess the end goal would be to be able to fire these via a button push on the Touchdrive (via an Ultrix Salvo) ... maybe?

Thanks in advance - (please feel free to disregard the ramblings of a madman if that's the first thought that came to mind).  Open to suggestions of any sort.

Dec

Hello clever people, 

I'm trying to find a way to fire BARCO E2 presets from within the ROSS environment.  I know just enough terminology to get myself in trouble, but have never really ventured down the Rosstalk path before and I'm not a Java programmer.

As far as I can see the BARCO can take some basic commands via telnet, but that raises that question of how to fire a telnet 'batch' command from within the Ross universe (I'm thinking it's a Custom Panel > CustomCode > CustomCode).

Not looking for code, just checking to see if I'm on the correct path.  Examples would not be refused tho' :D

In theory it's quite a simple ask,

"Hello machine, you don't know me, that doesn't matter, could you please do this? ... thank you!"

I can switch my brain into coding mode, but the last time I coded anything in anger was on an Amiga (the world only had 16 million colours back then), so I was wondering if anyone else has been reckless enough to have tried this before I go breaking things?

I guess the end goal would be to be able to fire these via a button push on the Touchdrive (via an Ultrix Salvo) ... maybe?

Thanks in advance - (please feel free to disregard the ramblings of a madman if that's the first thought that came to mind).  Open to suggestions of any sort.

Dec