Key Articles

• Another Great InfoComm
• Case Study - 200 5th
• New Features in Stardraw Control
• New Drivers Now Available
• Upcoming events
• Symbols Updates

Another Great InfoComm

True to form, our 12th InfoComm was a phenomenal show with attendance this year topping 32,000 visitors. At the Stardraw.com booth we were delighted to be swamped right off the bat and to see so many people taking such interest in our System Design and Control applications.

Certainly one of the things that caught our visitors' imaginations was our integration of the iPad, allowing the Apple product and its iPhone and iPod Touch siblings to be used as true bi-directional User Interface devices to any Stardraw Control-based system. Even we were astonished at the iPad's battery life: having last charged it on the Sunday before the show, the booth iPad was in constant use throughout each show day (and during out-of-show hours) and was at no time powered down. The battery finally gave up the ghost 28 minutes before InfoComm closed on its final day, Thursday June 11th. That's pretty good going for a portable wifi device in effectively constant use.

Learn More about iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Integration

Our congratulations go to Jeff Skalny of Spire Integrated Systems, Pleasant Ridge, MI, winner of the Great InfoComm Giveaway. Jeff won a copy of Stardraw Control 2010 and $1500-worth of Global Caché products, a prize with a combined value of over $3000. Pictured here, Jeff (center) is presented with his prize by Walt Keller, CEO, Global Caché (left) and Rob Robinson, Director of Marketing, Stardraw.com (right).

Case Study - 200 5th

The 200 5th sports bar in Brooklyn NY is the subject of a new case study. Specialist integrators JD Systems of Staten Island, NY, recently completed a full refit of the venue using, at its heart, Stardraw Control to manage control of, and content delivery to, almost 70 HD display devices in this hardest of hardcore sports experiences.

Read full Case Study

New Features in Stardraw Control

We're pleased to announce the addition of several new features to Stardraw Control, additions made in large part thanks to users in the field. Thanks for your feedback!

• Drag-drop driver replacement - in Stardraw Control's Topology View you can now replace products simply by dragging a new device from the Product List onto an existing one. This in effect 'swaps out' the product while retaining the functions and actions that have already been programmed. A great timesaver particularly for completed projects that are being upgraded with the latest hardware devices.
• Persistent product properties - properties defined in the Topology View at designtime, e.g. IP Address, are now persisted if changes are made to the underlying device driver.
• Copy actions with controls - when you copy and paste UI controls, e.g. buttons, the actions assigned to those controls are copied as well, making it easier and quicker to create 'cookie-cutter' projects.

New Drivers for Stardraw Control

Since the last newsletter, the following advanced drivers have been added to the Stardraw Control product family:

These, as with all published drivers, will be automatically added to your Stardraw Control product library when you choose to accept Library Updates on startup. To make your own product requests, please visit our Drivers Request forum by following the link below.

Visit Drivers Request Forum

Upcoming Events

	Show:	CEDIA
	Venue:	GWCCC, Atlanta, GA, USA
	Dates:	September 23-26
	Booth:	2542

Symbols Updates

In June the following libraries were updated in one or more of Stardraw's design/documentation applications (Stardraw Audio 2007, Stardraw AV 2007 and Stardraw AV Lite 2007). Click on a manufacturer name to see full details of that library.

To update your Offline Libraries, select Options | Synchronize Offline Libraries in your Stardraw application.