... Bob Denny's AcquireImagesFlex.VBS program is a listprocessor that has quite similar functionality, except it doesn't have a UI; some people think UI's get...
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maxm@...
Dec 23, 2000 6:19 pm
I was wondering if anyone has made an ASCOM compliant scripting interface similar to Bisque's Orchestrate? Us non-programers should be able to fully enjoy the...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 20, 2000 12:17 am
I've had a couple of folks express some concern that this list is "just for programmers". Please, those of you who are interested in the possibilities offered...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 20, 2000 12:15 am
Some recent private exchanges have prompted me to speak out on the use of the Chooser that comes with the ASCOM Telescope Driver SDK. Rather than implementing...
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Arne Danielsen
arnedani@...
Dec 18, 2000 1:23 am
Hello ! First I would like to congratulate everyone on this list participating in this great initiative!!! About a year ago I contacted Bob Denny of DC3 and...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Dec 13, 2000 12:29 am
I haven't noticed any significant feedback on the focuser control object I proposed a while back. If anyone has some thoughts on it, I'd be very interested....
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 12, 2000 11:45 pm
... I am working on something similar, though my concentration is not on NEO's but on arbitrary classes of objects - such as galaxies for supernovae searches,...
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Cristovao Jacques
cjacques@...
Dec 11, 2000 6:45 pm
Hello all, This is my first submission to this group, and I've already reviewed all the previous messages (this promises to be a great discussion group, and...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 11, 2000 2:48 pm
Jeff -- Yes, VB6 Professional is the one to get. Enterprise is way too expensive and we don't need those features anyway. I'd wait at least a year before...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 11, 2000 7:09 am
... VB6 is on the post-Christmas list for me. I'll be traveling a bit for the next few weeks and won't have a lot of time to work on software, so I'm not going...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 11, 2000 7:09 am
... What do you mean "next?" ;-) -- Jeff Medkeff Hereford, Arizona...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 11, 2000 5:43 am
One other thing -- If you can get your hands on VB6, you can open and inspect the ASCOM driver sources, as well as the "Helper" object. TRhe SDK also has a ...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 11, 2000 5:38 am
Wow, this is great! Next you'll be sucking your scripts into VB :-) It's quite possible. You can create instances of ACP.Util, ACP.Scope, etc. from the ...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 11, 2000 5:33 am
Yes, this is correct. To raise an automation error in VB, you say Err.Raise (vbObjectError + &H400 + someindex), _ "Your Component Name", _ "Your error...
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matthias.busch@...
Dec 10, 2000 9:56 pm
... Yes, I would think so. "IErrorInfo" and "FACILITY_ITF" come from the COM/C++ world, the equivalents in VB are "Err.Raise" and "vbObjectError". Matthias ...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 10, 2000 9:39 pm
... Thanks, Matthias. I had found one of these on the CD distribution; the other is new to me and was very helpful for tying things together. ... My...
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matthias.busch@...
Dec 10, 2000 9:12 pm
Jeff, ... Look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/vbasic/vbcon98/vbconraisingerrorsfromyourcomponent.htm and ...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 10, 2000 8:35 pm
I have written what I *think* is a COM Server that lives in an EXE that I created with Visual Basic 5. The server currently contains two objects ("MPCStuff"...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 10, 2000 12:40 am
... Right. I got confused about message destinations, sorry. Since there might ... I've done further testing. I'd suggest closing the support case (no. 42) ...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 9, 2000 10:09 pm
Friendly nudge -- this is actually a DC-3 dreams product support issue rather than an ASCOM issue. Future questions like this might better be handled on the ...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 9, 2000 9:53 pm
I'll be darned! I wondered about that. I was getting a type mismatch and tried that CStr() as a shot in the dark. Reference parameters are verboten anyway, the...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 9, 2000 9:45 pm
All in-process COM objects (DLL-style ones) need to pump events for 2 reasons: (1) Actually putting a thread or process to sleep (Win32 Sleep() call or the ...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Dec 9, 2000 9:26 pm
... Bob Denny and I talked about this, and he made a suggestion that better explains the exact cause of the reentrancy. The COM server is written in VB, and...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 9, 2000 7:50 pm
... We are using the ST8e with the integrated guider, and no filter wheel. If you need to know specifically which drivers from within Maxim are in use (i.e.,...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Dec 9, 2000 6:51 pm
... My fault. When you pass a variant by reference you get VT_VARIANT|VT_BYREF, which needs to be dereferenced to get the VT_BSTR. The necessary little chunk...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Dec 9, 2000 6:37 pm
... I have noticed some interesting behaviour from COM interfaces. For example, I was recently writing a COM client. It had a timer which would poll the COM ...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 9, 2000 7:20 am
Finally, a question for Bob: ACP 1.3 sp 1, when set to night mode, causes the taskbar and all desktop icons to disappear from the screen. They remain there -...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 9, 2000 7:14 am
Also in my scripting adventures, I ran across the following line and comment, written some time ago by a script author far superior to me: Function...
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Jeff Medkeff
medkeff@...
Dec 9, 2000 7:02 am
Hi all, We've had a few conversations about strange behavior in which scripting code, trying to create an object, fails to do so, but a second try succeeds. I...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Dec 6, 2000 8:50 am
Sorry for this blizzard of email on Buster's topic... There's also a script in the ASCOM exchange (WebForm.js) that demonstrates getting orbital elements for...
