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Special string characters – Gilderfluke&Co 'Smart' Brick Animation Control System User Manual

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hasn’t heard anything within about 45 seconds, it will turn on the
‘E9’ error message on the Heads Up Displays.

When displayed on the STRING SETUP MENU, characters that

the Brick will wait for are displayed in parenthesis and have their
bit seven hidden. For this reason in the example above, al-
though entered as ‘E1’, this entry would be displayed as ‘(61)’.

SPECIAL STRING CHARACTERS:

Within the strings there are eleven ‘special characters’ which

can be used. They are defined as follows:

End-O-String: (00): This special character tells the Smart

Brick Brain that it has reached the end of the current
string it is sending.

LaserSearch: (01): This character, when found by the Smart

Brick Brain in a string, causes it to send out a search
command to the LaserDisk (or DVD) player to find the
frame number found in the LaserDisk Start for the current
show.

PB: (02): When found in a string, this character causes the

Smart Brick Brain just to sit and wait until it gets an input
on the manual PB input. Be sure that there are no con-
flicting commands which this input may trigger when
you activate it. (An example of this would be to have a
command to wait for this input during a start string, and
then have this input also stop any show when it is trig-
gered. This would have the unfortunate effect of stop-
ping the show before it has even started. This command
is not available on Rack Smart Brick Brains when using
Panasonic LaserDisk Players.

Blue: (03): When found in a string, this character causes

the Smart Brick Brain just to sit and wait until it gets an
input on the BLUE input. Be sure that there are no conflict-

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