Hello All, Using a disk imaging tool from 'Acronis' I mirrored an old 60GB disk onto a new(er) 120GB disk for my IBM T42 Win XP laptop. All OS and application...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 26, 2012 10:24 am
I think Bob is correct, Peter put a lot of work into making sure everything worked from COM, so it _should_ work from VB6. It's going to come down to finding...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 26, 2012 10:50 am
Interesting. Presumably your disk imaging software did a sector-by-sector copy, it would not 'crack open' any files or the registry, and so in theory it is...
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peschman2001
Apr 26, 2012 3:05 pm
Thanks to Bob, Peter S. and Tim, I have a script that mostly works. I hope I am not burdening folks with this continuing thread. I am getting an error when I...
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Peter Simpson
peter_w_g_si...
Apr 26, 2012 7:34 pm
Hi Peter, Its certainly true that you are creating variables with the names of the required site properties, but these are JScript variables rather than ...
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Peter Simpson
peter_w_g_si...
Apr 26, 2012 8:00 pm
Hi Gert, Disk imaging should operate below the level of ASCOM and CCDSoft and the Acronis image copies that I've made have worked as expected. I always make a...
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peschman2001
Apr 26, 2012 8:03 pm
Peter, Thanks very much for clarifying the assignment process. I had asked this very question in an earlier post. I assume this means that even though these...
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drgert1
Apr 26, 2012 8:40 pm
Hi Tim, Thank you for your comments. Let's take the disk imaging out of the equation. I'm still interested in using the larger disk. After all the messing...
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Hristo Pavlov
hristo_dpavlov
Apr 26, 2012 11:21 pm
Hi All, Â I am almost ready with the first draft of the Video Camera ASCOM interfaces and I am unsure what I am supposed to do next. What is the process for...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 27, 2012 12:32 am
In general, install software in order of least dependant to most dependant and, all else being equal, use the latest version. I say 'all else being equal'...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 27, 2012 12:46 am
I would put your notes in a PDF document and publish it along with your interface proposal. You need to put these items online somewhere so that people can...
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drgert1
Apr 27, 2012 12:56 am
Hi Tim, You mentioned something very interesting, which I don't remember doing in all my prev. wasted work. ... Don't forget that FocusAPI has manual...
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Hristo Pavlov
hristo_dpavlov
Apr 27, 2012 1:39 am
Thanks Tim, Â In this case I will probably set up a web page on my web site dedicated to this that will have the downloadable drafts and documenrtation and...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 27, 2012 3:05 am
Gert, when I wrote the FocusAPI plugin I provided a readme file with instructions on what to do. Unfortunately the installer has been replaced with one that I...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 27, 2012 3:10 am
Gert, it looks like the new installer puts the DLL directly into the system folder - so you no longer have to do the manual installation step. That also...
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drgert1
Apr 27, 2012 3:52 am
Hi Tim, Thank you very much for the feedback. So that indicates that the sequence to install would be: Ascom CCDSoft Optec driver (plus check that the right...
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Hristo Pavlov
hristo_dpavlov
Apr 27, 2012 10:41 am
Hi All,  Please find below my initial draft for a new ASCOM interface for controlling video cameras:  http://www.hristopavlov.net/ASCOM/index.htm  Your...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 27, 2012 10:42 am
The only thing that could really go wrong with that is if you installed CCDSoft last, it might overwrite the FocusAPI DLL with its own, which is just a 'stub'...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 27, 2012 11:30 am
Hristo, My first thoughts are that this seems to be a very well-reasoned and well-presented proposal. Its excellent how you have presented the reasons for your...
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Hristo Pavlov
hristo_dpavlov
Apr 28, 2012 5:57 am
Hi Tim, Â Try the link at the top of the page. It contains a zip file with both the generated CHM file and the interface defined in a C# file. Â Regards, ...
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Peter Simpson
peter_w_g_si...
Apr 28, 2012 6:01 am
Hi Tim, The definition is now in a CHM file link at the end of the first line. I had to do the usual Show File Properties then click Unblock to properly view...
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drgert1
Apr 28, 2012 6:09 am
Hi Tim, Thank you for your info. My suggestion to alert users to the issue would be at the end of installation. Some pop-up window with big red letters saying....
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chrisdimpfl
Apr 28, 2012 10:25 am
Hello all, Two questions: 1. Does ASCOM.Astronomy (or other included library) include utilities for transforming Az/El to RA/Dec? I've been using the...
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Peter Simpson
peter_w_g_si...
Apr 28, 2012 11:08 pm
Hi Chris, Yes, the Platform 6 SP1 Transform component does support Az/El to RA/Dec conversion. This is documented in the Developer help installed with the SP1...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Apr 29, 2012 2:10 am
Ah now that’s interesting. On the first computer I used, the page background came out the exact same colour as the hyperlink, which is why I didn’t see it....
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Joe
joe.spracklen
Apr 29, 2012 3:47 pm
Sorry for starting another topic like this, I've looked at the other recent similar threads and my issue seems to be different. I'm upgrading from ASCOM 5 and...
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Mike
mikerushford
Apr 29, 2012 4:36 pm
Using the ASCOM Developer Help CODE Example for NOVACOM I altered these two line NCPlanet.Name = "Sun" 'Initialise Planet object as Sun NCPlanet.Number = 10 as...
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Chris
scope_sapiens
Apr 30, 2012 2:08 pm
I'm not sure that's the right way to specify the Sun, it isn't planet 10 and from what I can see the name isn't used. One possible way would be the get the...
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Peter Simpson
peter_w_g_si...
Apr 30, 2012 9:38 pm
Hi Mike, I've checked the code and NOVASCOM doesn't support the Sun = Planet10 convention adopted by NOVAS. Hopefully Chris's work-round works for you. I...
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Peter Simpson
peter_w_g_si...
Apr 30, 2012 9:42 pm
Hi Joe, Some similar problems in the past have been traced to corrupted installations of the .NET framework. It might be worth uninstalling then reinstalling...
