[QLab] Unique Cue Numbers (Alert Notice)

[Steve Waddicor]

My first thought was that there should be an error beep rather than a  
pop-up alert.  Doh!  I'm more of a programmer than a soundman.


On 9 Dec 2006, at 12:17, Mike Benonis wrote:
> What would be awesome would be to either un-assign or renumber the
> cue that already has the cue number you're trying to assign.  Nothing
> frustrates me more than having to renumber one cue in order to
> renumber another!

I think that would be problematic too.  At least with the current  
behaviour a mistake will only affect the cue that's currently  
selected.  If you unassigned/renumbered the other one, it could be  
anywhere, even hidden, and you wouldn't notice the change.


How about going for consistency with the existing error handling for  
other problems.  Allow the duplicate, but put a red cross next to  
each of the non-unique ones.  Then just refuse to do any QLab action  
that relies on unique cue numbers until the problem is resolved.   
That shouldn't get in anyone's way when they are deliberately  
renumbering, and provides perfectly adequate warning to anyone doing  
it by mistake. [Suggestion added to ticket]

Cheers,
Steve.