I wrote an apple script to start-up catalyst (to avoid menu bar) and in an older version of V4 - the HUD didn't remember its last state - ie HUD on or off (in current version it does now....)

I wrote a script that started catalyst - then simply sent a key press (w) to display the HUD on o/p 1.

http://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richa...read.php?t=856
(Catalyst delay loader silent 3+HUD-4.02_m40Pro.app)

In this way - you could use the same script (with a bit of an edit) to send a key press to start a preset after catalyst or pixelmad starts-up.

By doing your ical thing - i guess you can then execute presets at different times.

However - can you not use the 'show control' cuelist to do the same thing??? By putting cues in at real-time values?

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