Key Articles

• Visit Us at InfoComm Booth 3824
• Stardraw Libraries Pass 600 Manufacturer Milestone
• Stardraw Delivers Diverse Device Drivers
• Further Integration with IT Devices for Stardraw Control
• New Drivers Now Available
• Upcoming events
• Symbols Updates

Visit Us at InfoComm Booth 3824

If you're attending the world's #1 event for AV professionals, be sure to stop by our booth 3824 to meet the Stardraw team and catch up with all of the recent developments.

We'll also be making a very important announcement on Wednesday. It's coming...

Stardraw Libraries Pass 600 Manufacturer Milestone

We've reached a significant milestone for the Symbols Libraries that support our design applications, Stardraw Audio, Stardraw AV etc, which now number over 600 manufacturers in total and a staggering 54,000 symbols.

The Symbols Libraries have been under continual development since their inauguration almost two decades ago in 1992. Representing over fifty man years of work, each symbol is painstakingly drawn by in-house professional CAD draughtsmen to create the highest quality, most comprehensive libraries available anywhere. Stardraw.com guarantees no duplicates and a consistent qualitative standard throughout.

Since the very beginning, this invaluable service has been provided free of charge to manufacturers — all they have to do is provide the relevant product information in the form of 2D DWG or DXF drawing files, and Stardraw.com will do the rest. Symbols are prioritized on the basis of user requests from registered users holding a current subscription via Stardraw.com's online Symbols Request service. All that is required are the manufacturer details and the model number of the product required, and — as for the manufacturers — Stardraw.com will do the rest.

Symbol updates are published almost daily, so registered users may synchronize their libraries whenever they wish. Users with a current subscription to Stardraw Audio and Stardraw AV have access to Online Libraries so any new symbol is available to them immediately, without prior download.

"The Symbols Libraries are a core activity for us at Stardraw, and key to the intrinsic value of our Design products," noted marketing director Rob Robinson. "In addition to being the only software provider who offers such a comprehensive symbols service, we can guarantee that our libraries are the most up-to-date and relevant on the market because they are entirely user-led, hence market-driven. We do get the odd request from people who haven't entirely thought things through — a request for "ALL Sony products" springs to mind - but by and large our users are incredibly helpful and allow us to provide an excellent — and unique — service."

Stardraw Delivers Diverse Device Drivers

We're proud to confirm the unequivocal success of the Driver Request Forum, a free service to all registered Stardraw Control users.

Stardraw Control 2010 is the multi award-winning, software-based universal control platform designed to create custom user interfaces that can control any remotely-controlled or monitored hardware over any protocol. Its open-architecture approach enables you to employ off-the-shelf hardware as core components of your control system and extend functionality almost without limitation whilst minimizing costs.

In order to communicate with third party hardware, device drivers are required and new drivers are needed for new or previously unsupported products. Stardraw Control includes a number of tools including a Driver Wizard to help people to write their own drivers, but in situations where users don't have the time, skills or inclination to create their own, Stardraw.com offers the Driver Request Forum.

This unique service, available to all registered Stardraw Control Users, undertakes to create any custom device driver within 30 days, free of charge, regardless of its complexity.

"We introduced this service about eighteen months ago," notes Stardraw.com marketing director Rob Robinson. "I am delighted to say that since then, we have delivered every single driver that has been requested with the majority being published well within a week, let alone 30 days! The Driver Request service is clearly a win-win because our users get what they need quickly and at no additional cost, and it adds value to Stardraw Control as a product: as soon as a driver is published, it is available to all users immediately."

Visit Driver Request Forum

Further Integration with IT Devices for Stardraw Control

We're pleased to announced a further level of integration with IT devices for the multi award-winning control platform, Stardraw Control 2010; support for System Events

The control system can react to anything that is recognized as a System Event on the host PC, such as 'Resume from Standby', 'Virtual Memory Low', 'Email Received', 'Network Cable Unplugged', 'Logon', 'Shutdown', etc. The control software can be programmed to instigate any other action such as send an alert or perform any device function when any particular system event is detected.

"What this means is that the control system can be fully aware of the PC device that it's running on and any processes that might be running in the background," says Stardraw.com marketing director Rob Robinson. "Like so many features that have been added to Stardraw Control over the years, this functionality has been requested by users in the field. Clearly there's great interest in exploiting and fully integrating with IT infrastructure when deploying audio visual and other control systems."

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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:	InfoComm
	Venue:	OCCC, Orlando, FL, USA
	Dates:	June 15-17
	Booth:	3824
	Show:	Home Technology Event
	Venue:	Excel, London, UK
	Dates:	June 28-30
	Booth:	RGB Communications A1-A6
	Show:	CEDIA
	Venue:	ICC, Indianapolis, IN, USA
	Dates:	September 7-10
	Booth:	627

Symbols Updates

In May 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.