creating a ddf to control fluorescent tube lights and leds' (which are not dmx lights)

Hi and welcome in this forum,
how many DMX-channels are supported by your flourescent tube lights and the LED-lights? If they have only one channel each, you can use the "generic dimmer"-DDF. One task of a DDF in DMXControl is to specify the type of every channel. Devices with complex channel configurations (e.g. moving heads) often need specific DDFs, but with only one dimmer-channel and no other channels, the standard "generic dimmer"-DDF is the best to use :).

hint: to differentiate between different light types in the graphical view, there is the opprtunity to change the shown device icons by right clicking onto the device => "configure" => "change picture".
Regards
JP

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And if i use the "generic dimmer"-DDF i get a slider to control the lights. So can i switch on/off the lights from that. isn't it used to control the light intensity???

Hi, just use instead the generic switch ddf, to switch on and off

regards
Uwe

hi,
ok, here some basic informations about DMX to understand the channel concept:
The DMX standard gives 512 channels and each channel have a value between 0 and 255. On the device side, each device has a specific count of channels which where used by the device and a user defined start adress. The start adress is important because this is the start channel from where the device detect the channel values. Example: I want to use 2 identical LED Par light (lets say they use 5 channels: ch1: red, ch2: green, ch3: blue, ch4: dimmer, ch5: mode). But I want to contol each light seperatly, so I set the start adress of the first LED Par to 1 and the adress of the second one to 6, because the first one use 5 channels. So when I want to control the blue color of the second one, I have to adjust channel 8.

Back to your problem: There is also a genric On/Off switch in the DDF directory. You can use this DDF instead, but it switches only between the channel values 0 and 255 so you can have the same effect to your Lamps with the dimmer DDF by positioning the slider to the very begining and the very end of its range.
Regards
JP
P.S.: I hope you'll understand my bad english

In the project there will be the need of the DDF, in order to control the light intensity and the slider of the switch from on and off.