Important Notice
For best long term reliability and performance, open the Extensions Manager Control panel on the Apple menu and set it as follows.

1. Choose "MacOS Base" on the "Selected Set" pop-up menu.

2. Click the "Duplicate Set" button, naming the set "Dataton TRAX".

3. Turn off the following extensions: Application Switcher, Control Strip Extension, Desktop Print Spooler, Desktop PrintMonitor, FBC Indexing Scheduler, PrinterShare, File Sharing, File Sharing Extension, File Synchronization, Web Sharing, Web Sharing Extension, Shareway IP Personal Bkgnd, Software Update Scheduler.

4. If you're using the Keyspan Twin USB-to-Serial adapter, turn on the following extensions: Keyspan USA28X Manager, Keyspan USA28XDriver. Make sure the version number of these extensions is 1.7.

TRAX Related
• [3.7.1] New Feature; Supports light sensor of TOUCHDOWN. Displays correct icons for TOUCHDOWN hardware buttons on the pop-up menu in the button item's dialog box.

• [3.7.1] New Feature; Displays color index number on all color pop-up menus, making it easier to set the same color across multiple panel items.

• [3.7.1] Bug Fixed; Live Edit mode of Set/Fade cue now works properly (was broken in 3.7).

• [3.7.1] Bug Fixed; The sample items in panel item dialog boxes could sometimes be placed incorrectly or disappear altogether.

• [3.7.1] Bug Fixed; Sometimes failed to download Lamp and Level device drivers for devices on other computer port than the first one.

• [3.7.1] Bug Fixed; Sounds in buttons attached to the panel itself didn't play.

• [3.7] New Feature; Supports TOUCHDOWN™ both for use as a TRAX "brain" (ie, replacing the Macintosh computer for running a TRAX system) and as a panel device. For more details, choose "TOUCHDOWN with TRAX" in the Device window and click the Info button.

• [3.7] New Feature; Supports MP3 audio files, which is the standard audio file format used by TOUCHDOWN.

• [3.7] New Feature; Now allows the use of fractions in the Scale factor of the Set/Fade cue as well as when using an expression to provide the scale factor.

• [3.7] Bug Fixed; Setting the output level of a video disc device from its status window or from a panel item attached to the level property didn't work.

• [3.7] Bug Fixed; Level cues placed in the task list and using fractional values could sometimes cause incorrect intermediate values.

• [3.7] Bug Fixed; TRAX crashed soon after re-starting TRAX when running throuigh a Keyspan SX PCI serial port card after Quitting TRAX after running a show that used devices providing continuous input.

• [3.7] Bug Fixed; When editing serial drivers, could corrupt drivers containing exactly 256 states, or a multiple thereof.

• [3.6.3] New Feature; Getting the type of a virtual device through scripting now returns "Virtual". Likewise, if the device type is not yet specified, it returns "Unspecified".

• [3.6.3] Bug Fixed; Use of the redundant but permitted word "the" in some cases in serial/network scripting commands could cause the command to fail.

• [3.6.3] Bug Fixed; The default name of devices created while more than one computer port was active contained a ':' character, which later caused problems in expressions unless changed manually. This has been changed into a '_' character to avoid this situation.

• [3.6.2] New Feature; TRAX can now handle up to four computer serial ports for system bus communication (vs. two in earlier versions). This essentially doubles the maximum number of physical devices that can be accommodated by one TRAX system, and makes it easier to deal with very large installations (eg, in planetariums).

• [3.6.2] New Feature; The computer ports used for system bus communication are now designated as P1, P2, P3 and P4 (instead of the old "M" and "P" prefixes). You determine the connection between these port names and the physical serial ports available on your computer using a new set of pop-up menus in the Preferences dialog box.

• [3.6.2] New Feature; TRAX can now use many third-party serial port adaptors and cards, including USB-to-Serial adaptors and PCI Serial cards. We're currently conducting tests to determine compatibility and suitability of various products. Please consult the DATATON TRAX product page on www.dataton.com or email [email protected] for a list of recommended products.

• [3.6.2] New Feature; You can now specify which serial port to use as the serial scripting port. A serial scripting port can be used even if you use four serial ports for system bus communication.

• [3.6.2] Bug Fixed; When jumping to a control cue using a function key or control key combination, and the target control cue was set to Pause, the Pause command was sometimes ignored.

• [3.6.2] Bug Fixed; When using large numbers of devices, cues and panel items could sometimes loose their connection to specific, individual devices. Adding or removing some devices could make the problem move to another device.

• [3.6.2] Bug Fixed; Jumping to a named control cue using a control cue located on another timeline or in the task list found the wrong target control cue if there were more than one with the same name on the timeline.

• [3.6.2] Bug Fixed; Adding modes to a Serial device driver, with a device in the Device window using that driver, could sometimes cause a crash and/or corruption of the driver file.

• [3.6.2] Bug Fixed; Applying the Lock command to panel items could cause their size/location to change.

• [3.6.2] Bug Fixed; Automatic address assignment to SMARTPAX QX ports sometimes behaved incorrectly.

• [3.6.1] New Feature; A cue can now be copied from the Action column of the Task list.

• [3.6.1] New Feature; Choosing Specifications (or pressing Command-I) when a Task is selected opens its Action item (timeline or cue).

• [3.6.1] New Feature; The status window of Tape devices now also shows the output level (audio or video, as specified by the driver).

• [3.6.1] New Feature; More intuitive grouping of the cues on the Cue menu.

• [3.6.1] New Feature; SMARTPAX QC is now the default control unit - not SMARTPAX.

• [3.6.1] New Feature; TRAX now suggest switching to Interactive mode when appropriate, and offers to do it for you without going through the Preferences dialog box.

TOUCHDOWN Related
• [3.7.1] New Feature; The sensitivity of the light sensor can now be adjusted in the set-up panel.

• [3.7.1] New Feature; A sound named "Click.MP3" that you put on the SmartMedia card will be used as the default button click sound.

SMARTPAX Related
• [3.7.1] Bug fixed; "Dataton WATCHOUT" driver now works properly.

• [3.7.1] Bug fixed; Dataton POWERLINK/KEYLINK driver no longer affects the reliability of timecode or DMX drivers in the same SMARTPAX.

• [3.7] New VideoDisc device drivers for Pioneer DVD-V7400 (NTSC only).

• [3.7] Bug Fixed; A problem that sometimes caused POWERLINK and KEYLINK devices to misbehave, or adversely affected other devices controlled by the same SMARTPAX.

• [3.6.3] New VideoDisc device drivers for Pioneer DVD-V7300 PAL and NTSC. This device model appears to provide significantly better search performance and reliability than its predecessor (the 7200).

• [3.6.3] Increased reliability of all video and audio player device drivers in the case of erroneous or garbled responses from the controlled device. This situation could trigger a Play-Locate-Play cycle in the driver, causing interruptions to the playback. A filter has been applied to the data returned from the device to avoid this problem.

• [3.6.3] Bug Fixed; Pioneer DVD and laser disc device drivers didn't handshake properly with the device, which could cause unexpected delays in carrying out lengthy commands, such as a Locate.

• [3.6.1] New VideoDisc device driver for Pioneer DVD-V7200.

• [3.6.1] New Audio Disc device drivers for Fostex D-90 and D-108.

• [3.6.1] New Slide Projector device drivers for Leica PRADOVIT RT-m and PRADOVIT RT-s.

• [3.6.1] New Serial device drivers for BarcoVision 9200, BarcoData 9200, BarcoGraphics 2100, BarcoGraphics 9200 and BarcoReality 9200.

• [3.6.1] New Serial device drivers for Davis DL450 and DLX650.

• [3.6.1] The Panasonic AG-7XXX and Philips ISP-3002 device drivers have been removed from TRAX. These drivers are now included as separate driver files located in the "More SMARTPAX Device Drivers" folder.

• [3.6.1] Bug fixed; A bug was fixed in the KEYLINK and POWERLINK drivers that could cause the driver to not provide power to the smartlink.