From c4cd73aa98beb9c82acf59bb888ea9fd10ff6361 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrzej Kopec <akopec@chopin.edu.pl>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:59:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] "bang" messages as an alias for "async"

---
 docs/dmx.eurolite.maxref.xml                  | 14 +++++++-------
 source/projects/dmx.eurolite/dmx.eurolite.cpp |  1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/dmx.eurolite.maxref.xml b/docs/dmx.eurolite.maxref.xml
index d3c2340..120a81b 100755
--- a/docs/dmx.eurolite.maxref.xml
+++ b/docs/dmx.eurolite.maxref.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	<!--METADATA-->
 
 	<metadatalist>
-		<metadata name='author'>Andrzej Kopeć </metadata>
+		<metadata name='author'>Andrzej Kopeć</metadata>
 		<metadata name='tag'>communication, lighting, DMX</metadata>
 	</metadatalist>
 
@@ -26,18 +26,18 @@
 	<methodlist>
 
 		<method name='bang'>
-			<digest>Prints test message (qelem)</digest>
-			<description>(for now does nothing (worthwhile))</description>
+			<digest>Trigger async transfer</digest>
+			<description>See <at>async</at></description>
 		</method>
 
 		<method name='sync'>
-			<digest>Trigger synchronous transfer of DMX data</digest>
-			<description>Trigger <b>synchronous</b> transfering of current DMX data buffer. The message is always deferred to main thred (Qelem). </description>
+			<digest>Trigger sync transfer</digest>
+			<description>Triggers <b>synchronous</b> transfering of current DMX data buffer. The message is always deferred to main thred (Qelem). </description>
 		</method>
 
 		<method name='async'>
-			<digest>Trigger asynchronous transfer of DMX data</digest>
-			<description>Trigger <b>asynchronous</b> transfering of current DMX data buffer. The message is always deferred to main thred (Qelem).</description>
+			<digest>Trigger async transfer</digest>
+			<description>Triggers <b>asynchronous</b> transfering of current DMX data buffer. The message is always deferred to main thred (Qelem).</description>
 		</method>
 		
 		<method name="set">
diff --git a/source/projects/dmx.eurolite/dmx.eurolite.cpp b/source/projects/dmx.eurolite/dmx.eurolite.cpp
index 3ce1065..47bdcd9 100755
--- a/source/projects/dmx.eurolite/dmx.eurolite.cpp
+++ b/source/projects/dmx.eurolite/dmx.eurolite.cpp
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ void ext_main(void *r)
 
   class_addmethod(this_class, (method)dmx_eurolite_sync, "sync", 0);
   class_addmethod(this_class, (method)dmx_eurolite_sync, "async", 0);
+  class_addmethod(this_class, (method)dmx_eurolite_sync, "bang", 0);
 
   class_addmethod(this_class, (method)dmx_eurolite_setchannel, "setchannel",
                   A_DEFLONG, A_DEFLONG, 0);