Button definitions, Button specification – Grass Valley NV9642 v.1.2 User Manual
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clear, the button sets up the take and the operator must press a ‘Take’ button to complete
the take.
Button Definitions
There are four classes of button functions:
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Dedicated functions, such as ‘Default State’ or ‘Chop’.
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Variable functions, such as ‘Category’ or ‘Source’. With this type of button, additional selec-
tions are needed to complete the button configuration.
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Special functions, such as ‘Navigate’ and ‘Back’. These functions allow the panel operator to
move from one button page to another. (The Navigate button is unique: it initiates a dialog
in which you create a subtree.)
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System-generated button functions. These are buttons that are generated dynamically (by
the router control system) during operation. An example of system-generated buttons is a
device list generated when the user presses a category button. The set of devices in a cate-
gory can change over time (as the configuration database changes); the NV9642 device list
changes also.
The number and names of categories can also change over time and the NV9642 will track
those changes too.
When a device list appears on the panel, the system lights the ‘up’ button so the operator
can easily return to the page containing the category button.
There are different sets of button types for global suffix pages and for global navigation pages.
See
Button Specification
The button definitions section has several controls:
Note
Certain button fields, such as for categories, sources, destinations, or salvos, contain a
colon (:) and number, after the data in the field. The number is the record ID of the
device (or other configuration object) in the NV9000 configuration database. The
record IDs can be ignored but might be of some use when the configurer is searching
for items in the configuration database.