Re: [Indi-devel] possible features
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From: Dirk H. <hun...@ci...> - 2005-05-10 17:53:29
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Thanks a lot for your comments, I see the benefits of using a custom app and probably I will do so. Basically I can include any wired feature requested by my users. And it is very nice that indi allows such a apps. Somewhere in the indi docs I read that you don't have to change the gui code when the hardware changes, as long as your client keeps general. If I write a very specific client, I will have to change the gui as soon as I change the hardware. That is my "philosophical" problem. I still keep dreaming that general clients will once upon a time understand some issues given in my list. Many Telescopes have a CCD that can provide a preview during readout. There might be messages that are more important than others, and you might want to draw the users attention to them. And there are certainly many devices that can be accessed very well in some kind of "terminal". And I agree that hotkeys are something very specific that will not likely become a general standard soon, well CTRL-C CTRL-V are an exception. I hope I could make the more genaral and (hopefully) indi related issues of my request a little more clear. Cheers, Dirk |