Operation Manual

Patching tooltips 59

PRO2 Live Audio System

Owner’s Manual

Patching tooltips

Patching uses two types of tooltip — standard and list — to convey useful patching

information about the patch connectors. A tooltip is a transitory object, in the form of a

text box, that only appears while the GUI’s pointer is in the proximity of a patch

connector.

Standard tooltip

The standard tooltip is the default type that appears during all patching operations. The

following diagram shows, typically, the type of information provided by a standard

tooltip.

List tooltip

If you are carrying out a sequence operation, you can use the list tooltip to help in

selecting the destinations in the To section. This tooltip, which has a distinctive

translucent orange background, displays a list of the sources still to be patched. The

list is in order of selection, with the first in the queue being at the bottom. You can only

use the list tooltip for sequence operations.

Item Description

1 Patch connector information panel, contains information on the selected

patch connector, such as, name, ID, device name, device ID etc.

Depending on the device type, a signal level meter appears if the channel is

passing audio.

2 Routing information panel, contains patching information on the selected

patch connector. (If this panel is blank, the patch connector is not

patched.)

3 The patch connector that the tooltip belongs to.

Item Description

1 ID of the patch connector currently under the GUI pointer.

2 List of selected sources still to be patched. Contains channel and device ID

information.

3 The source patch connector currently waiting to be patched. Once patched,

this will disappear from the list and the one immediately above will become

the next available.