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Within one Q-FOG chamber, it is possible to cycle through a series of the most significant corrosion environments. More sophisticated automotive methods may call for multi-step cycles that incorporate humidity or condensation, along with salt spray and dry-off. Simple cycles, such as Prohesion, may consist of cycling between salt fog and dry conditions. In a Q-FOG cyclic corrosion tester, specimens are exposed to a series of different environments in a repetitive cycle that mimics the outdoors. Because conventional salt spray methods failed to mimic the natural wet/dry cycles of the outdoors, test results frequently provided poor correlation to outdoors. Starting with QLab 5.Prior to cyclic corrosion testing, conventional salt spray (a continuous salt spray at 35˚C), was the standard way to simulate corrosion in a lab. The following messages will all un-flag cue 12:

The following messages will all flag cue 12: Any string which begins with Y, y, T, t, or any digit 1 through 9 will be be interpreted as true. If QLab receives a text string as an argument where it’s expecting a true or false value, any string which begins with N, n, F, f, or the digit 0 will be interpreted as false. If QLab receives any number as an argument where it’s expecting a true or false value, 0 will be interpreted as false, and any other number (including, for example, 0.5) will be interpreted as true. OSC 1.1 has a boolean data type, allowing you to send True or False as an argument. QLab 5 allows several different data types for these arguments. Many OSC messages in QLab require an argument which sets a value to either true or false. Readers are heartily encouraged to request that specific additional examples be added by emailing the QLab support team.

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To use the live form of an OSC message, add /live as the very last part of its address.Īfter the table comes a description of the behavior of the OSC message, including separate explanations for read and write usage if applicable.įinally, some OSC messages come with examples showing how to use them.

When cue 1 (or the whole workspace) is reset, the live adjustment will vanish and cue 1 will revert to its saved rate. Sending these messages does not cause the document to have unsaved changes.įor example, /cue/1/rate 2 sets the playback rate of cue 1 to 2, but /cue/1/rate/live 2 sets the live playback rate of cue 1 to 2. “Live” messages are the same as their non-live counterparts but operate on the active, “live” value of a parameter rather than changing the saved initial state of the parameter. The last column is only present for OSC messages which have a live form. If you are using multiple workspaces simultaneously and wish to route OSC messages selectively, you can use different port numbers for each workspace, prefix messages with /workspace/ from the current value.įor example, /cue/10/preWait/+ 1 increases the preWait of cue 10 by one second. This is a change from QLab 4 in which only the front-most workspace received OSC messages. Important: OSC messages which arrive on a given port will be received by every open workspace listening to that port. Exceptions are noted below, such as cases where a reply may be larger than the maximum size of a UDP datagram. The OSC API behaves almost identically when using both UDP and TCP. The plain text UDP port can also be customized on a per-workspace basis, just like the OSC port. For example, sending the text /cue/selected/start to QLab on UDP port 53535 will have the same result as sending the actual OSC command /cue/selected/start to port 53000. QLab also listens for plain text on UDP port 53535, and attempts to interpret it as OSC. When a client talks to QLab via TCP, messages are framed using the double end SLIP protocol ( RFC 1055) as required by the OSC 1.1 specification. Replies to OSC messages sent via UDP are sent on port 53001. When a client talks to QLab via UDP, each OSC message corresponds to one UDP datagram. Individual workspaces can be configured to listen for incoming OSC on any port in the Network → OSC Access section of Workspace Settings, although it’s important to remember that QLab itself still listens on port 53000. QLab listens for incoming OSC on port 53000. The QLab OSC API can be used over both UDP and TCP transport layers. OSC messages are sorted more or less alphabetically in each section, which is to say they’re alphabetically sorted, but messages which are closely related to each other are sometimes grouped together even if they are not alphabetically adjacent if that makes it easier to understand their relationship. What follows here is a complete dictionary of QLab 5’s OSC implementation.

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QLab has an extensive API (application programming interface) for OSC which allows you to control QLab from any device or software which can broadcast OSC messages.