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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001848 | SkyChart | 1-Software | public | 17-11-16 04:17 | 18-10-03 10:11 |
| Reporter | Ernie Parker | Assigned To | Patrick Chevalley | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | tweak | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | HP dv6z laptop | OS | Windows | OS Version | Win 7 64-bit |
| Product Version | 4.1 SVN | ||||
| Target Version | 4.4 | ||||
| Summary | 0001848: Change in Display dialog box behavior | ||||
| Description | The Display dialog box has the standard 3 buttons in the upper right corner: Minimize, Maximize and Exit. In SVN3672, the minimize button would minimize the dialog box but left the main window unusable because the dialog box still had the focus. In SVN3678, the minimize button minimizes the entire program. Neither choice seems (to me) to be useful. I use the Setup==>Display==>Finder Rectangle tab a lot in order to compose images since I have many Telescope-Camera combinations in that tab. So it's very helpful to be able to see both main screen and dialog box at the same time. But I would love to have the ability to manipulate both at the same time. Here is what I believe would be ideal: 1. Instead having the dialog box fixed size, allow the user to adjust the size and have CduC remember (a) the box size and (b) the tab that was last selected so when the user comes back into that dialog box, it remembers where they were previously in the same way the main screen does with the sky. 2. Allow both windows to be active at the same time. I would love to have the dialog box sitting next to the main program and have the ability go back and forth between the two as I adjust the scope-camera combination. Patrick, I've been a programmer for over 45 years and I know how easy it is for someone to suggest a seemingly simple change to the software without having any idea of the complexity of the change. So, I try to be very sensitive to that. I certainly welcome your feedback on this suggestion. You are a much braver person than I am. I have written software to synchronize my dome to the mount inside, but I have no desire to publish it because I don't want to spend the rest of my life making changes that others request. I sincerely applaud what you do. --Ernie | ||||
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Thank you for this detailed description. Yes, it is a useful feature to remember the last tab used and I will do that. But you can also access directly to the setup page you need by a right click on the corresponding toolbar button, in this case the "Show mark" button. It is more difficult to allow access to both a setup window and the main window at the same time. Because in this case I need another way to prevent you open two setup at the same time, leading to conflict in the option list. But I suggest another option that can help you for many other case: the use of a specific toolbox as described here https://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/documentation/toolbox This toolbox are active at the same time as the chart and you can configure them as you want to help with specific problem. I quickly make an example to show you how it work. - download the zip file attached to this note. - extract the file to the folder you want. - from skychart select the menu Setup / Manage tool box script. - look for a free row in the list, note the F1-F8 key number in the first column. - right click in this free row, select "Open script". - select the file CCD_Frame.cdcps you just unzipped and close. - from skychart click the corresponding F1-F8 key . This show the CCD frame tool. In the first row enter the with and height of the rectangle, on the second row is the rotation and the offset. Click the button to set the finder rectangle to this dimension. The "Script editor" button at the bottom let you see how it is build and how to edit the scripts. There is a lot of documentation to describe all of that. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 17-11-16 04:17 | Ernie Parker | New Issue | |
| 17-11-16 19:14 | Patrick Chevalley | File Added: CCD_Frame.cdcps.zip | |
| 17-11-16 19:14 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0004287 | |
| 17-11-16 19:15 | Patrick Chevalley | Assigned To | => Patrick Chevalley |
| 17-11-16 19:15 | Patrick Chevalley | Status | new => feedback |
| 17-11-16 19:15 | Patrick Chevalley | Target Version | => 4.2 |
| 18-10-03 10:11 | Patrick Chevalley | Target Version | 4.2 => 4.4 |
