Is there a reference camera support application available? Chris ... {00020430-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} ... version(1.0), helpstring("ASCOM Telescope...
Replying to my own message with some updates: I spoke to the author of a couple of very old camera drivers, Brian Barnes. He is not working on the drivers and...
Its been a while since I posted. I am author of a radio astronomy oriented "planetarium" program called Radio Eyes. Since it was released I have been working...
*** WARNING: Newbie proximity warning *** Hi folks, What am I trying to do: Trying to learn how an Ascom driver is put together. To do this I thought to play...
The framework you've downloaded is mine - I don't think it will help you with what you're trying to do, because it is really intended for application...
Thanks Tim, I'll take a look at what you are suggesting. I have been out of programming so long that I'm not even sure what to call things any more! Started...
A quick apology to the author of the Telescope Simulator. I was screwing up in my driver with the longitude/latitude signs! This TS is a most useful tool for...
Hi Jim, You handle errors in whatever way your development environment implements errors, for VB something like this will work: Function DoSomething() On error...
In the logs of both programs I get the same error : eg. PolealignMax Error - 2147319779: automation error|Library not registered. Module modComponents Property...
Did he manage to find the source? Without it, they're not really much use towards developing other drivers. This is a pertinent thread thread to me - I was...
... It was??? I didn't think it was anything like it. It didn't use COM, and the interface definition was quite different. ... We removed it because we're...
Hmm, OK, my mistake. I thought the interfaces looked similar, but you'd know best! Is there *any* example source implementation available to the CCD spec? John...
John Matthias Busch gave me a copy of his simulator code. As he said in an earlier thread some of the interfaces are a little out of spec (shorts instead of...
Hi John, Can you say which camera you are writing an ASCOM driver for? I'm thinking of doing one for my Artemis 429 camera and wonder if this is what you have...
John, I think all the drivers we're talking about implemented different flavors of the camera interface and AFAICT most of the work started and stopped quite a...
Larry, For some reason PAM can't find the CCD camera controlled by CCDSoft. First check on the PAM Setup tab that you have selected CCDSoft as the Imaging...
Hi Chris, Very close - I was going to do one for my new Artemis 11002. Apparently the interface to the low level .dll is very simimar, so perhaps a unified...
In fact - a question for the group in general - does anyone know of any capture software besides MaximDL which supports the ASCOM drivers? Alternatively, any...
Thanks for the prompt reply. My version of CCDSoft came with my SBIG camera. It said it was version 5.1.8.2 on the Help menu which is the latest version on...
Well, since I started this tread it's pretty safe to say that PHD Guiding and Nebulosity will end up with ASCOM camera support (www.stark-labs.com). I've got...
Hi folks, The following code is throwing an exception (DriverException was unhandled) at End Sub or thereabouts. I'm guessing that Dome object needs to be ...
Hi folks, Sorry, forgot to add that the InnerException is: "COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used" Don't know if that...
... Selected by which program (of the many that use drivers for controlling stuff)? "ASCOM" doesn't keep a list of programs that use drivers. Actually, there...
Ok that's my code so I will claim ownership of this problem. It does look like the dispose method is trying to access an object that no longer exists. It could...
ASCOM doesn't define any concept of a "selected" device. Each application would be responsible for remembering its own settings. Typically, an application will...
Hello Bob, I've managed to learn enough C++/ATL/MIDL to complete a first cut at an ASCOM driver for the Optec Pyxis camera rotator. In order to go from...
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