Hello group, I hope someone can give me a pointer: I have a VB.Net application that uses ASCOM for focuser control and ASCOM utilities. I moved from VS2010 to...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
May 21, 2013 6:47 pm
It needs the profile write and read to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, this will force the strings to use a full stop throughout. I'll send you some updated...
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Jared Wellman
rockjockjared
May 21, 2013 6:33 pm
Many locales store doubles with a comma as the seperator. For instance 1,23 rather than 1.23. The string to double conversion doesn't like this as it's not...
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Greg Marshall
phototwist
May 21, 2013 6:26 pm
Rick, Thanks. I tried setting the region to Sweden on my computer and got the same error. However, just changing the decimal place marker from period to...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
May 21, 2013 4:54 pm
Greg, I believe that the foreign language exception messages are coming from Windows, based on the Culture that is selected by the user. I can see from the...
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Greg Marshall
phototwist
May 21, 2013 4:46 pm
I have a driver for a focus controller that is working well for me, but does not seem to install correctly for a customer in Sweden. The installation seems...
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Timothy P. Long
t_p_long
May 21, 2013 2:14 pm
Oh, in that case I apologise for getting the wrong end of the stick, sometimes I read posts in a bit of a hurry and don't have time to read all the back story....
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robin_m101
May 21, 2013 11:12 am
Thank you all for the replies.You have confirmed my thoughts that there is no way that the dome driver should be interacting with eqmod. I'm going to do a...
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steve.loveridge
May 21, 2013 6:55 am
Hi Tim Thanks for your help with this. I'm to get my hands on a different laptop and try a fresh install of ascom, Eqmod, poth and pipe. I'm away from home...
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steve.loveridge
May 21, 2013 6:52 am
Thanks for your reply Chris. I didn't mention that the problem doesn't happen when using a dome or a scope simulator - so having slept on it, I guess that...
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mik.schuster
May 21, 2013 4:58 am
Tim, thanks it's not a driver, just a client app. ClickOnce does have limits, but maybe its OK for a simple client .exe. I do need to double check on another...
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Timothy P. Long
t_p_long
May 21, 2013 3:11 am
Mike, don't forget to validate your driver using Conform.exe. The ClickOnce install may well trip you up as soon as you try to install on a different computer....
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Timothy P. Long
t_p_long
May 21, 2013 2:42 am
Adding to Chris' rock solid suggestions, this is such a crazy sounding problem that I'm tempted to offer some fairly far out suggestions. My gut reaction is...
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Chris
scope_sapiens
May 20, 2013 9:35 pm
Several things to try: Try to log all the communication that you can - the serial commands from EQMOD to the mount motors, the traffic between POTH and EQMOD,...
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steve.loveridge
May 20, 2013 9:03 pm
Robin has kindly offered to help me by producing a dome driver for my Pulsar dome, and he's done a brilliant job, but we're both pretty well stumped by this. ...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
May 20, 2013 6:06 pm
Richard, If your PC is running Windows 7, or probably Windows 8) then you already have .NET 3.5 SP1 installed, but you must turn it on via Programs and ...
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richard accomando
shyloh89
May 20, 2013 5:42 pm
I have installed Pempro along with .Net 3.5 and ASCOM 6.0. Pempro doesn't respond well so I checked to be sure ASCOM 6 was installed. And it was. But when I...
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mik.schuster
May 20, 2013 5:01 pm
Just a note of thanks, I completed my implementation, the ASCOM focuser API and the FLI ASCOM Focuser driver so far work well and have been easy to use. A am...
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Chris
scope_sapiens
May 20, 2013 10:47 am
There's a lot of information on developing drivers that's included with the developer download of the platform. There are templates for VB and C# that provide...
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screech_james
May 20, 2013 10:12 am
Hi, I'm looking at developing a computerised focuser based in the StepperBee stepper motor controller starter pack ...
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robin_m101
May 20, 2013 10:12 am
I have a problem with a dome driver that I've written that hopefully someone can shed some light on. Briefly, I have written a driver for my dome that works...
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unievaspravda
May 19, 2013 5:52 pm
Hi there, I am looking for developers who would want to write an ascom driver which could control the skywatcher's AZ mounts like this one: ...
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Chris
scope_sapiens
May 19, 2013 9:46 am
I've fixed the MoveAxis Issue in POTH, it will be in SP2. The TrackingRates exception with EQASCOM simulator is the same with EQASCOM simulator without going...
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Timothy P. Long
t_p_long
May 18, 2013 10:37 pm
... You know, the ultimate source of answers to all such questions is the source code. You could always check it out from sourceforge.net and take a look at...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
May 18, 2013 11:16 am
... No it is not easy to make a C++ driver. This is part of the reason there are no examples. ... Who knows? If they are related to ASCOM platform 5 and you...
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freestar8n
May 18, 2013 9:30 am
Hi- I definitely don't claim to understand this stuff, so if it is in fact easy to make a C++ driver, I would welcome such an example to refer to. As for xml -...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
May 17, 2013 5:53 pm
Mike, I'm glad that I could help. Rick Burke...
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mik.schuster
May 17, 2013 5:51 pm
Thank you Rick for your quick reply, adding items from Platform6 solved my problem. The focuser part of ClientToolkitSample.cs now works fine. Mike...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
May 17, 2013 5:20 pm
Mike, You have figured out that you need to add references to those external assemblies (DLLs) that contain objects that you want to instantiate in your...
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mik.schuster
May 17, 2013 5:10 pm
Hi, I am new to ASCOM, C# and VS2012 and looking for help on project setup. I want to write a simple temperature compensation utility for my FLI Atlas focuser....
