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This has to be the all-time bizarre network problem I have seen! DNS queries /originating/ here are never answered, no matter what name server is used. Thus, I...
The Microsoft folks informed me that there is a "critical update" to Windowss XP, now available via Windows Update, that includes the new script engines. This...
Though 99% of my internet functions were running, I hard-reset my router, reconfigured from scratch to exactly the settings I already had, and voila! I am back...
If you are running Windows XP use Windows Update to get the latest "critical update" package for XP. This contains the fixed 5.6 scripting engines. -- Bob...
Hi Bob: I've been testing your nextar driver with my Nextar 5" unit. It seems to work very nicely, except for times. To my suprise, I've found that the driver...
... Can you elaborate? ... Because they don't represent a feature of the scope that actually exists. A Property Get would simply return what was last set. It...
... I've just read your long list of Nextar peculiarities in the Telescope driver. I knew something about 1/3 arc-minute resolution but nothing about the...
Rafael -- Heh heh, I misunderstood your reference to "RS 232 control" and though you meant the DriverHelper.Serial object! I get it now. Thanks! I'll add to my...
The ASCOM Platform 1.1 contains a version of the TheSky Driver that will sense whether your installation of TheSky and RASCOM.dll will support asynchronous...
I needed to write a quick routine to calculate sunrise and sunset and I decided to use some of the routines in astro32.dll to save time. I've spent the last 3...
John Oliver wrote: ... Having raised this point, I though I would post here material from my "Techniques of Observational Astronomy" class notes: In 1583, the...
John -- Astro32 dates way way back to when I didn't know anything. Mainly I use it now for the system date/time stuff. Probably cal_mjd() and/or the inverse ...
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Steven S Tuma
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Nov 5, 2001 4:34 am
Bob, I guess I will have to keep posting this until I get a reply. Sorry! I am quite satisfied with the testing I've done with the Ultima driver. I had one...
... Geeze, Steve, I just got in from a long day doing Sheriff work and am going through email. I have both your phone message from today and the other email ...
... Gee, don't do that. The astro32.dll contains many useful functions. The system date/time stuff is especially useful since it handles DST and zone for me....
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Steven S Tuma
sttuma@...
Nov 5, 2001 1:20 pm
My apologies Bob. I am just real eager to get using the ASCOM drivers in my app and wanted to make sure I could get my questions answered before I went ...
... Let me know what ACP2's Util object is missing for your needs. I am very sorry not to have documented ACP2's scripting yet. This is a multi-week project...
... But I am writing a standalone VB app that will control my allsky camera ... I need to change parameters at sunrise and sunset. The astro32.dll had useful...
Hi Bob, I'd like to make a proposal concerning asynchronous slewing for the Nextar 5 & 8 driver. It could be also extended to other similar models. My...
Hello Rafael and Bob: I will try this technique on the NexStar114GT driver over the next couple of days, and report back to you. Bob, does it matter to the...
Not strictly. The simulator is an EXE. However, just be aware that when the driver is an EXE, task-switching by clicking around on the screen, trying to do...
Hi Bob: I am trying to add a scripting capability to the Nexstar114GT driver so that it can be accessed via VBscript from the outside world. Thanks Dennis ... ...
It's already there! That's the beauty of ASCOM. In VBS: Set s = CreateObject("Nexstar114GT.Telescope") Set u = CreateObject("DriverHelper.Util") s.Connected =...
Hi Bob: Having multiple clients connect to the telescope is exactly what I want to accomplish. When I connect Starry Night pro to the telescope simulator (via...
Pleaseohpleaseohplease... don't implement multiplexing in the driver! The entire driver architecture would be threatened. By implementing it, you change the...
Hi Bob: OK not a problem. I am trying to control the Nexstar for very fine "Up, Down, Left, Right" adjustments. I discovered last night I cannot control the...
Hi all -- I have posted the ASCOM Platform 1.2 for testing. Those of you who are developers, please download and install this ASAP. It has a spiffed up ...
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