... This sort of design might have been OK in the DOS days, but in the Windows environment (at least) it has a serious flaw. The ASCOM driver runs in the...
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Antonio Pascarella
antdevel
Oct 6, 2008 2:55 am
Does it give you the name of the .dll that failed to deregister? Antonio http://www.pascarellas.com <http://www.pascarellas.com/> "...it was dark enough that...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Oct 6, 2008 3:42 am
The lesson I read here is that sometimes a driver developer has no choice but to try and work around badly designed hardware as best as possible. And that...
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Tim Cole
tim_cole2004
Oct 6, 2008 5:30 pm
... <apascarella@...> wrote: The only ID information I could get was "ASCOM Platform 2008" Not terribly helpful, I'm afraid....
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 6, 2008 6:03 pm
... Heh heh.. that wasn't directed at Tim, who has indeed achieved a "software victory over hardware". I'm sure he did the very best he could, and by and large...
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Hilary Jones
hilary15xx
Oct 6, 2008 8:46 pm
I have a problem with the Telescope Chooser: the first five entries in the dialog box are blank. You can see a screen dump that shows this at ...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Oct 6, 2008 9:31 pm
In practice, the read buffer is unlimited (you can set whatever size you think is appropriate) and the serial port driver has no problems in handling a 19200...
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Hilary Jones
hilary15xx
Oct 7, 2008 6:32 am
I uninstalled all of ASCOM and all the drivers, then reinstalled them with fresh copies downloaded from the ASCOM web site. That solved 80% of my problem. I...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
Oct 7, 2008 12:03 pm
The ASCOM info is in the registry in the HKLM\Software\ASCOM section. The telescopes are in the Telescope Drivers section with a section for each scope, the...
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Mark Crossley
crossley_mark
Oct 7, 2008 12:40 pm
As another data point, I used to have a number of blank entries with platform 4, now I have upgraded to platform 5, one system looks good with no blanks. ...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 7, 2008 3:42 pm
Matt, thanks for looking at it... I was afraid of that. My installer is really simple and doesn't unregister the existing one. It is supposed to register the...
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Antonio Pascarella
antdevel
Oct 7, 2008 5:49 pm
Can you reproduce the error? You should have something like "Failed to deregister xxxxx.dll..." Antonio _____ From: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com...
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Hilary Jones
hilary15xx
Oct 7, 2008 9:26 pm
I don't want this issue to be ignored, so here I am again! This time I'm working with the Scope Simulator. To demonstrate the problem, bring up the chooser...
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Mark Crossley
crossley_mark
Oct 7, 2008 9:45 pm
Hilary I cannot reproduce this on my Vista systems. I used Skymap Pro and selected teh simulator as you say. The config dialog appears on top whether or not ...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
Oct 7, 2008 10:11 pm
I've just tried it with a Vista Home Premium system with SP1 running CdC version 3 and it's fine, the simulator setup window appears on top. I do remember...
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Hilary Jones
hilary15xx
Oct 7, 2008 11:31 pm
I tried a very interesting experiment. I looked at the scope simulator's "always on top" setting. It had been set; and then the configuration window was...
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Hilary Jones
hilary15xx
Oct 7, 2008 11:42 pm
I need to clarify my last response. If the "always on top" setting is enabled, the configuration window appears under the main application window. But I...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Oct 8, 2008 1:21 pm
The problem is that assuming your window will be on top because you requested it is a false assumption. If to windows ask to be on top, one of them will fail....
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Oct 8, 2008 1:29 pm
I get the open-under problem on my Vista system here in the office using the ASCOM Dome Control Panel and Scope Simulator. I am on Platform 5.0a I strongly...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Oct 8, 2008 1:42 pm
If you get a forward-thinking hardware developer, sometimes they will work with you and make changes to the firmware (as is happening now with the AWR driver...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 8, 2008 1:48 pm
I'd put this into the category of "bug" :-) . When the scope sim displays its setup window, it should first take itself out of "always on top" mode. Then...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 8, 2008 1:53 pm
Can anyone guess how the descriptions (the "default" values) for the driver's ASCOM info tree, got cleared out? Or maybe some spurious subkeys got created...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Oct 8, 2008 2:43 pm
I had this same problem when I first installed platform 5. It seems like something wipes out all the (default) values which contain the driver's display name....
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 8, 2008 4:06 pm
... How strange! I looked at the Platform 5 Deployment project just now and I can't see anything that would do such a thing. It's such a weird problem... Here...
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ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroup...
Oct 8, 2008 6:35 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ASCOM-Talk group. File : /celestron...
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philsiriustech
Oct 10, 2008 2:18 am
I am developing a new product for the amateur astronomy market that does not fall into any of the ASCOM device categories in the Client Toolkit. The product...
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cb245er
Oct 10, 2008 2:02 pm
Hello the group: I'm running ASCOM 5, Gemini L 4 v 1.01 and interfacing with the Gemini Controller through the POTH. I have encountered a problem that I don't...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Oct 10, 2008 2:38 pm
Hi Phil- I think what you need to do is state your case. That is, "I propose a new specification for [device type]". That gives everybody a chance to consider ...
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autostaretx
Oct 10, 2008 3:08 pm
I could see him not wishing to "pre-announce" his product (and he could be under a non-disclosure agreement). So what if we used a hypothetical example, such...
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Boyer, William
wslboyer
Oct 10, 2008 5:06 pm
Dick, I LOVE it! Thank you very much, William Boyer ... From: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of autostaretx Sent:...
