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Doug has posted aproposed camera/detector interface and filter wheel interface standards. My comments: (1) Call it "Detector" not "CCDCamera" - this is in...
Edward -- ASCOM components are not going to be free-threaded, by definition. One of the goals is to make it possible to implement components with Visual Basic,...
... No problem. This would also imply that we would support non-CCD detectors. ... I'd like to clearly distinguish this as the array size, rather than...
... Better yet. Your point is a good one. ... I apologize for the confusion. The idea would be to be able to fire off an exposure, then come back and look to...
... Matt, I should really answer the question, since I made the original proposal (which may only bear a moderate resemblance to the final result, as you might...
... If it's going to be a DLL driver, I don't see any way around that. Of course the driver can be built as an EXE if necessary for some reason, but the ...
Hi All, I just wanted to ask if the standard will support all of the various kinds of cameras used for astronomy and astrophotography. Specifically I am ...
I'll weigh in on this one. One of the goals of ASCOM is to make theinterfaces as simple and elegant as possible. This resulted in some compromises during the...
I second Bob's comments. I do not think it would be wise to have an all-encompassing standard that covers all types of imaging devices - the variety would be...
Ted -- ... I'm not sure what you mean. I -think- I agree with you. :-)) I left a back door in the Telescope driver by providing CommandString, CommandBool, and...
... I think I'd rather see it go that way. They really are different kinds of devices. Of course we can kludge a video camera into the current interface, but...
I started this thread suggesting a couple additional methods to the Focuser standard and it turned into discussions about whether temperature compensation is...
Gil, This isn't an answer to your main question but here are some points to consider in favor of implementing an .exe for your focuser. Some folks who buy the...
Gil -- Adding to the existing interface is a bad idea, because someone -will- write a script or program that depends on the non-standard methods/properties,...
... How is this worse than the methods in the Telescope drivers that allow applications to send random, opaque text strings to the telescope over "the" serial...
Gil, You can always make your focuser driver watch the ShutterOpen property on Maxim's camera object even if it isn't part of the focuser interface. Add a box...
Ok, while they are part of the standard, I suspect they're probably much more of attractive nuisance when trying to write portable code than some additional...
Landrum, I was planning on adding some control functionality to the .exe but my initial plan is to have the .exe talk to the focuser using the ASCOM driver....
Bob, Ok, I guess when I read through the ASCOM standard information it wasn't clear that additional methods shouldn't be part of the driver. If someone did...
I was really interested in the answer to this question from my earlier message. Let me re-phrase it. If the ASCOM standard is updated to include a new method,...
There's a small bug in the scope simulator setup dialog (frmSetup): Public Property Let Longitude(ByVal lon As Double) Dim u As Integer If lon < 0 Then lon =...
... Ooops - no, it's just interchanged, also the Let Latitude property is wrong: Public Property Let Latitude(ByVal lat As Double) Dim u As Integer If lat < 0...
Ok. Well at least I'm early in development so I can make sure my ASCOM object/interface only implements ASCOM methods/properties. I haven't implemented...
Hi all -- I hadn't expected this so soon, but SPACE.COM is coming out with the new Starry Night Pro V4, and it will contain the ASCOM Platform installer on the...
Hi Bob, The installer worked fine for me on Win2K SP3. The fixes discussed over the week appear to be there too. FYI: I did notice that the AstroOptik driver...
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