Hi Luiz- You should try and teach them about false economies! You can use a free OS, and piece together some free components, but you are going to still end up...
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mgerszew_2000
Jul 28, 2005 8:19 pm
Luiz, Let me start this post by giving you a bit of my background with remote/internet control telescope systems (it is also a good plug for ASCOM, so I'm...
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Mark Crossley
crossley_mark
Jul 28, 2005 8:31 pm
Just a bit off-topic for a second, but I've seen a couple of references to Wine being used under linux. I had always thought that Wine required you to have a...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Jul 28, 2005 9:16 pm
Wine itself does not require Windows, or the licensing of any Windows components, but it can use Windows DLLs. It is possible that software you want to run...
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mgerszew_2000
Jul 28, 2005 9:19 pm
IANAL, so I can't give you a legal opinion. But from the WINE FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/ Section 3.6: "Unlike WABI, you do not...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Jul 28, 2005 9:40 pm
... Additional info: Actually he sees one of those IE "generic" error pages in the right hand pane. He wrote me priovately and I answered with this (minus the...
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mgerszew_2000
Jul 28, 2005 9:59 pm
... can't ... Wine (or ... going to be ... Chris, I certainly did not want to imply that WINE is even a good solution or a stable solution, but it is a...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Jul 28, 2005 10:12 pm
Hi Mike- I didn't mean to suggest that you were endorsing Wine. I agree completely with your previous points. Nice summary of IRAF <g>. I use it on occasion,...
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scope_sapiens
Jul 29, 2005 11:14 am
Hi, It's been pointed out to me that the Celestron Driver doesn't work with operating systems that use the double byte character set, such as Japanese, Chinese...
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foxmulderzhang
Jul 29, 2005 12:48 pm
i think if you want to use a sky map software under linux,you can try to write a driver with internet protocol.but you should modify "driver helper.dll",for it...
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foxmulderzhang
Jul 29, 2005 1:00 pm
i am trying to read the vb source of lxp200 driver.but i really cannot find the detail protocol of it! mainly the format of RA and Dec that send and...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Jul 29, 2005 1:45 pm
Isn't DBCS obsolete? Wouldn't it make more sense just to use the Unicode functions for all string handling? It might break pre-NT operating systems, but that...
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mgerszew_2000
Jul 29, 2005 2:11 pm
... completely ... Chris, I guessed that, but I wanted to make it completely clear that Wine isn't the best (or even a good) solution, even if it somehow does...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Jul 29, 2005 2:20 pm
There is an excellent discussion on this subject here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Tim Long ... From: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Jul 29, 2005 3:20 pm
Thanks, Tim, that's a nice overview. I guess when I suggested using Unicode, I was really suggesting UCS-2, which seems to be what all the standard Unicode...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Jul 29, 2005 4:10 pm
... See the lalst part of my message, after the BUT... ... Well, if it were only that easy :-((( Waaaay back, I made a decision to early bind Helper into...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Jul 29, 2005 4:12 pm
Mike -- To help isolate the problem, please change the selection in Telescope API from Gemini to Telescope Simulator, and let us know the outcome. -- Bob...
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certhp80
Jul 29, 2005 6:22 pm
Bob: Thanks!! ... where...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
Jul 29, 2005 9:43 pm
I need to go into more detail. The Celestron scope accepts and sends arrays of bytes for its control. Some, but not all, of these bytes can be represented as...
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Russ Garrett
russagarrett
Jul 30, 2005 3:14 am
Bob Denny suggested I ask this question in this group. Is there a way to open and close a roll off roof like a dome observatory with a program like MaximDl,The...
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Russ Garrett
russagarrett
Jul 30, 2005 3:15 am
Bob Denny suggested I ask this question in this group. Is there a way to open and close a roll off roof like a dome observatory with a program like MaximDl,The...
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Chuck Faranda
cfaranda24
Jul 30, 2005 3:40 am
Russ, Yes, see http://ccdastro.net/Roof_Controller.html All functions are accessed via an ASCOM dome driver. Regards, Chuck Faranda http://ccdastro.net ... ...
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Chuck Faranda
cfaranda24
Jul 30, 2005 5:48 am
It would be useful, if there is really an ASCOM RCX driver under development, for the author to make some kind of official announcement. I would like to know...
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ccavador
Jul 30, 2005 4:50 pm
Dear all, I hope not to speak chinease thru this message ;-) I'm developping a client application that calls ASCOM object interface procedures. The main thread...
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Mel Bartels
mel_bartels
Jul 30, 2005 4:59 pm
... No kidding! In lieu of anything in the ASCOM portion itself, this is how I would tackle this: Using Design Patterns, design a Singleton that contains a...
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ccavador
Jul 30, 2005 8:40 pm
Humm, this is not the point, i think, and it will not work. I was speaking about serial port as exemple, it could have been any I/O device (like ethernet I/O...
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Mel Bartels
mel_bartels
Jul 30, 2005 9:31 pm
... Well, sorry for my misunderstanding - requirements gathering is hard. ... ASCOM is single threaded, yes? So if I understand you correctly, your problem is...
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Mel Bartels
mel_bartels
Jul 30, 2005 9:37 pm
... ... or is it more an issue that you are running multiple threads and thus accidently creating more than one instance of the ASCOM Com interface? In which...
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ccavador
Jul 30, 2005 10:56 pm
Ok, Let's start by the begining. I've made test with the focuser simulator, it worked out, even accessing it from multiple threads. When switching to the Jmi...
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ccavador
Jul 30, 2005 11:33 pm
Here is some explaination of what i'm speaking about : http://www.distribucon.com/papers/comintro/2112.htm The threading model flag works for both DLL and EXE...
