Suzy B Software 2/Suzy B Software CD-ROM 2 (1994).iso/animatin/anim_g2p/lekodemo/readme.doc

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    LEKOLEKO is a professional design program for theatrical
lighting designers. It was developed by Water Fountain Software
in conjunction with professional lighting designers.

    LEKOLEKO retails for $150.00.

    This is not a mass marketed program.  Please do not compare
this price with the price of those programs that are sold by the
truckload.  This is a specialty program specifically designed and
suited to the ST environment.  There is nothing like it on any
other computer.

  LEKOLEKO is available only from:

  Water Fountain Software
  13 E. 17 St.  3rd fl.
  NY NY 10003
  212 929 6204

    To order please send check or money order for $150.00 plus
$2.50 shipping to the above address.


 For information or consultation about the program please
  call or write
                      Festival Theatrical
                 Jeff Fontaine
                    506 W. 42 St. Apt. 5D
                    NY NY 10036

     after 11 AM EST  212 736 67204

    Using LEKOLEKO is so easy it almost needs no explanation if
you are already familiar with GEM on the ST and lighting design
for theatre.  The following instructions will show you how to use
the program to try out some of its features.


Requirements:
    You must have a mono monitor and 1 meg of memory.  It may
run on a 520 but it will have severe memory limitations and may
crash.  The demo will not let you save or print, shop order is
not working, and the demo will stop after 10 minutes.  Everything
else works.
     When you use this program, think how much time you are
saving and how convenient it is to use.

    Run the program and pull down the POSITION menu.  Click on
"Ground Plan". This is where you position Electrics, Booms and
Ladders.  The position in feet and inches is constantly shown on
the upper left of the screen.  Make sure "ELECTRIC" is hilighted
at the top of the screen.  Click on it to hilight it if it's not
hilighted.  Now simply click where you want to position the
electric.  In the dialogue box that appears 40 is the default
length.  Click OK.  There's your electric.  An electric must be
placed before a ladder can be positioned.  A ladder can only be
positioned at the end of an electric.
   To position a boom, click on "BOOM" at the top of the screen.
Make sure "ADD" is hilighted at the top.  If you are left of the
middle of the screen the booms for stage RIGHT will be positioned
on the left of the screen, if you are right of the center of the
screen booms for stage LEFT will be positioned on the right of
the screen.  The actual position is again shown in feet and
inches. The default height of a boom is 12 ft.  Put one boom on
each side of the stage.
   Now click the right mouse button and you will exit the
ground plan screen.  The right mouse will exit most screens.  If
you get lost or confused try right mouse clicks to return to a
menu.  Pull down the POSITION menu once more and click on
"Lights".  Now you have a choice to position lights on the
electric, the boom, or front of house.  Front of house(FOH) is
pre-drawn for all shows.  Click on "FOH" and then on "ADD" to add
a light.
    This is the FOH screen.  The top positions are the
Balcony Rail (BR) and Coves 1 to 3 (C1,C2,C3).  In the middle on
the bottom are the follow spots.  The other bottom positions are
box booms.  Each tiny square on the box booms is a position for a
light.  When the mouse is above the electrics on the top the
horizontal position is constantly shown in feet and inches from
the center.  Click in the center of the Balcony Rail (the top
position), when the numbers on the left show 0'0".
    The dialogue box that appears lets your choose which light
or use a macro for your light selection.  Choose "LEKO".  The
Leko dialogue box comes up.  Make whatever selections you want
for the attributes of the light. The dimmer, channel, and circuit
fields should be numbers only.  If you choose "Other" for watts
that should be a number also.  Click OK when done.  The light
appears at the position 0'0" Balcony Rail.
    To copy this light anywhere on the FOH, right click to exit
then click on COPY at the top of the screen.  Then select the
light by clicking on it. The dialogue box showing its
characteristics comes up. (If you don't want to see the dialogue
box before copying, moving or deleting, hold down the Alternate
key while clicking on the light.)  Click OK. Now click on any
other positions (except FOLLOW SPOTS) including box booms and
they will appear.  Make sure you put more than one light on an
electric and a box boom and watch them renumber automatically.
You can now place other kinds of lights using the same method.
Remember to right click to exit.
     To position lights on electrics, click on "ELEC" and for
booms click on "BOOM".  The procedures are exactly the same.
After you have placed some lights on the electric return to the
ground plan by exiting back to the main menu.  Click on
"Ground Plan" in the POSITION menu.  Click on "ELEC" and "COPY".
Select an electric, then copy it to another position.  All the
lights go along with it and are renumbered to that new position.
Copy it upstage and downstage to see the renumbering.   The booms
can be copied the same way.
     Return to the main menu.  Try listing schedules. Pressing
ESC exits a list.
     Clicking on "Edit Pos Sch" lets you edit all the
characteristics you put in on one screen.
     To print a copy of any screen pull down the "PrtPlot" menu.
Choose one.  If your printer will not make a decent copy of a
screen dump, print to disk and then load the file into any
program (DEGAS elite, for example)that will show a mono DEGAS
format picture.  Here you can print it and you can embellish it
with comments or further drawings.

    It's hard to believe so much can be done so easily, but this
program does it for you.  It's a machine that does most of the
tedious repetitious work for you.