ACP Planner 4.0 beta is now available for your testing and use. Here are the things that have changed:
Product Improvements
Bug Fixes
- A new applet, TheSky QuickCapture, has been included. It's function is to quickly retrieve the J2000 coordinates and Position angle from TheSky after setting up a target using a field-of view indicator. The 3 coordinates (RA, Dec, and PA) are used typically for pasting into the Single Image or Color Series forms on the ACP web interface.
- It is now possible to import ACP Plans for editing. There are some restrictions on what can be imported, however, so be sure to read Importing an ACP Plan.
- The Test button in Preferences now shows a "busy" (hourglass) cursor while waiting for the remote server to respond.
- The MiniSAC deep sky database is now installed as part of Planner installation, eliminating the need to separately download and install it.
Here is the download link http://download.dc3.com/ACPPlanner-4.0.4-Setup.msi [edit for beta 2]
- Catch crash in flat plan sorter for binning > 8
- Fix uploading of flat plans, was uploading the observing plan again.
- Allow TheSky mosaics with 1x2 or 2x1 geometry.
- Specifically check for single frame (1x1) TheSky mosaic, and report that as an error.
- No longer put #dawnshutdown in the flatplan. ACP's logic now chains back from flat plan to observing plan, and Planner already puts a #shutdown there, where it is supposed to be.
- Support for old ACP 4 plan format has been removed.
- The Test button in Preferences is now dimmed out unless there is something in the username, password, and domain fields. This prevents a fatal crash if the domain field is empty.
- The preferences login test logic has been improved to prevent a crash if there is a serious problem with the network.
- The tool tip on the default flat count in preferences has been corrected. It was wrong due to a textbox cut and paste.
This is the first project to be done using the new development environment I've been working on. It went just great. I have so much more visibility into the issues and evolution of changes to my software projects! I hope to provide you all with a view of the bug/issue system as a replacement for WebStar in the near future.