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Pedals and links
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If you are using the "Activate Next Link", it's behavior is such that it skips to the next start or end point, based on whether the last point was a start or end point. Consider the following example:

Link point pair 1 - Page 1 to Page 3
Link point pair 2 - Page 3 to Page 5
Link point pair 3 - Page 7 to Page 10

If you press the predal once, it goes to Page 3, as it recognizes that you are triggering a link point on the very first page of the song, so it skips the first "start" link point. So that means it starts by going to the end point of that link point pair. The next pedal press goes to page 3 again, as the next link point starts on 3 (so it doesn't look like it's doing anything, but it is). If you press the link point again, it then goes to page 5, then page 7, then page 10. 

You might question - why trigger page 3 twice? Well a user might be using a display mode that makes the page larger than the screen. This allows them to jump from a link point on one part of the page to another part of that page. I could enhance the logic to guess at what is the best course of action give the size of the page (i.e. if both link points are shown on the screen at the same time and activating the next link point won't move the screen, so just go to the next end point), but it's simpler not to do that and just trigger it in an easier to understand pattern (it's also less error prone). The only exception to this is not triggering page 1 when you are already on page 1 (that was the only place where I had to insert specialized logic). 

If you really just want to trigger the link points in order, the correct pedal mode to use is "Activate Next Link or Go to Next Page". That is the action most users rely on, as it's more intuitive. If only jumps from start points to end points, and only if you trigger the link points in order. So in the previous example, pressing the pedal would jump to page 3, pressing it again would jump to page 5, again page 6, again 7, then again 10. It either turns a page or activates a link point on the page if it happens to be the next link point in the list.

Let me know if you have questions about any of this.

Mike
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Messages In This Thread
Pedals and links - by jfree - 09-15-2020, 06:27 AM
RE: Pedals and links - by Zubersoft - 09-15-2020, 07:39 AM
RE: Pedals and links - by jfree - 09-15-2020, 08:03 AM
RE: Pedals and links - by jfree - 09-20-2020, 06:26 AM
RE: Pedals and links - by Zubersoft - 09-20-2020, 07:36 AM
RE: Pedals and links - by jfree - 09-20-2020, 09:42 AM
RE: Pedals and links - by jfree - 11-13-2020, 05:26 AM
RE: Pedals and links - by Zubersoft - 11-13-2020, 05:43 PM
RE: Pedals and links - by jfree - 11-14-2020, 01:54 AM



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