Another MaximDL 6 problem

[Brian Peterson]

For several years I've been using Visual Pinpoint, MaximDL5, FocusMax, and CCDAutopilot. It's been a stable arrangement,
and everyone has played with each other very nicely.

Then, in a moment of insanity, I decided to download a trial version of MaximDL6, and it has broken my Pinpoint.

When I try to start FocusMax or Visual Pinpoint, or try to connect everything with CCDAP, I get the following message:
error signature
ModName: pinpoint.dll
ModVer 6.1.1.0
Offset 0000992dl

The pinpoint.dll file is still here (where I suspect it has always been, in c:\\Program Files \ Common files \ ASCOM \ Pinpoint).
The trial version of MaximDL6 will plate solve with its Pinpoint tool, but these other programs that are supposed to connect to Pinpoint now seem confused.

What's the most likely way to get these things talking to one another again?

Thanks.

Brian

[Bob Denny]

What happened is that your very old PinPoint.dll was replaced by the latest one. Since you haven't renewed your support and upgrades, you aren't eligible for the newer versions. The error message isn't what you should have seen, so I am only 90% certain of this. At this point you have a choice: You can revert to the LE version of PinPoint that is in MaxIm 6 and lose CCDAP/FOcusMax support, or you can uninstall MaxIm 6 and I can restore your old version of PinPoint (if I can identify which one you had), or you can buy a year of upgrades and support from us for $69 and you'll get a license that will allow PinPoint 6.1 which will run fine with CCDAP, FocusMax,etc. and it will also run fine with MaxIm 5.x. New MaxIm with old PinPoint isn't supported but the newer PinPoint is fully backward compatible with the older MaxIm. The old PinPoint cannot be used with MaxIm 6 because MaxIm 6 uses features that were not in the old PinPoint engines.

[Brian Peterson]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the clarity.
On my document from years ago with the license key, I wrote "5.0.14." I assume that's the Pinpoint version.

The old version has been working great, but maybe it's (past) time to update it anyway. I assume that Pinpoint 6.1 would work not only with Maxim 5x, but with 6x as well; is that right?

Brian

[Brian Peterson]

I purchased an upgrade and support, and installed Pinpoint 6.
So far, everything seems back on track.
Thanks so much!

[Bob Denny]

Hooray, I saw this come through today. THANK YOU!!! And enjoy!