Al's Reticule v3.2 now remembers previous session settings!
Well, its been a frustrating day! I thought I'd do a quick mod to Al's Reticule so it remembers the previous sessions settings while I waited for the sun to get higher in the sky... I figured it would be 1/2 to 1 1/2 hours of work. No way! I've just solved it... I was plagued with "exceptions" all day... it turns out I had a line of code in there that I didn't need (in 2 places). All done now...
So v3.2 is exactly the same as v3.1 except it now remembers the previous sessions settings when you close the program.
Enjoy!
Al.
Last edited by sheeny; 01-05-2011 at 05:07 PM.
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Hi all... I'm new to this forum, but have been using my own reticle program for a while now - it has a number of features similar to Als, but has a few of it's own that you may like to play with...
5 slectable reticles
user selectable line colours
user selectable tint/ contrast colour
'click through' feature
'clck to mark'/ 'click to plot'
This is the start of some development I've been working for a LONG time, which will eventually control a bunch of gizmo's I've been working on.
Let me know what you think - I've already got a list as long as your arm of features that are 'waiting' for me to get to, but as programming is not my forte, and 2 under 5's to look after, this part of my hobby's not getting the time it needs for me to code... or work out how to implement my ideas.
oh - personally I'm sticking with 'reticle' - I understand a reticule to be a small handbag
Well, I did mention in my previous post, that I had a few features that I was looking to add - and that time was a limiting factor.
As it happens, my good lady wife took the children away for the weekend, to allow me to get on with some decorating (wall paper and gloss paint = BAD IDEA with a 3 year old).
As the weather has been less than great, I've taken some time to add a couple of additional features - unfortunately I've not been able to test them on another computer yet (as my wife has hers with her) - so I'm not sure that the install package will work away from my development machine.
Find attached the first version of my reticle program that I think is worth releasing... a couple of the new features are listed below.
- Tab based control panel
- Image grabber to file
- Screen grab can be automatic with interval setting
- Filename auto-increments
- Notes taking facility – with auto text
- Overlay location, notes, RA, DEC, Date, Time etc. on to grabbed image
- Rotation and translation of cross hairs can now be controlled using cursor keys – with Shift and CTRL.
- Lines and background now have full colour palate choice
- Notes can be saved and read to/ from a file
IF you have any comments / feedback / feature request, please don't hesitate to post here, or mail me directly.
Thanks mate. By the way, perhaps should start another thread, as this one is more for Al's Reticle? Hope he doesn't mind the OT posts.
For the record, I use Al's reticle a lot for drift aligning, along with the CCD drift align method. But it's always good to do a visual check, and the reticle is the best way I've found for that.
Again, thank's to Troy for your feedback - for reference, the issue was with the way I set the package to deploy.
Following Troy's suggestion, I've spawned a new thread - I'm looking forward to delivering functional and non-functional improvements for you all.
For those of you that have had the same issues with the install - the exe is available in the new thread, or you can extract it from the zip file in this thread - copy the file;
‘AMBReticle_1_0_0_1\ AMBReticle.exe.deploy’
out of the zip file, to a location of your choosing, and re-name the file to ‘AMBReticle.exe’.
I had a request via Ken Harrison to add on option to change the colour of the reticule. The red colour washes out when using a red filter in front of your screen, of course, at star parties, so for V3.3 I've added a colour button. It still defaults to red, but you can change it.
each press of the button will cycle the colour through red, green, blue, white and black... that should cover all options!
This is my first build in VB2008, and I notice things look a little different when publishing, so I'd appreciate any feedback... i.e. I hope it will install OK, if not I have some tweaking to do, so please let me know! It installed OK for me but that may not count!
Al,
Installs and works OK under Win7 64bit!!
Great service, much appreciated!
I'm sure some of the members will find it even more useful!
(BTW why no yellow?? )
Al,
Installs and works OK under Win7 64bit!!
Great service, much appreciated!
I'm sure some of the members will find it even more useful!
(BTW why no yellow?? )
No worries, thanks Ken.
Umm... because with a red filter over the screen, the yellow looks the same as the green...
Ken,
Just click on the setup.exe file and it will do the rest for you!
Excellent, thanks.
Edit: Hmmm, where'd it go? It was open and I saw the red crosshairs, but when I clicked Minimise it vanished and I don't know where it went to open it again
No way! I've just solved it... I was plagued with "exceptions" all day... it turns out I had a line of code in there that I didn't need (in 2 places).
Al's Reticule V3.3 is out now
