[Kstars-devel] Dear developers

[Pablo de Vicente]

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El Martes, 2 de Diciembre de 2003 21:55, Jason Harris escribió:
> Hello Santiago,
>
> Greetings, and thanks for your interest in KStars.  Are you aware that the
> latest development version of KStars already includes full-featured
> telescope control?  See this webpage for a look at the documentation (with
> screenshots):  http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeedu/kstars/indi.html
>
> Look especially at the first page; if your hardware is listed there, then
> all you will need to do is download our latest code, and you will be able
> to control your telescope with KStars.  If your hardware is not yet
> supported, perhaps we can work together to write the necessary code for it.
>
> You can find instructions for getting the latest development code here:
> http://edu.kde.org/kstars/cvs.php
>
> It sounds like our telescope control feature does exactly what you are
> asking about, but if you need to write your own control software as a
> University project, then please feel free to use KStars as the foundation
> (if you redistribute the code, you will need to follow the terms of the
> GPL, of course).

Hello,

  As Jason says if you need to continue with your project for the University
and still need some sort of Tcl module to compute coordinates for sky sources
you may download a pure Tcl/Tk package I wrote several years ago and which
I do not maintain anymore. This solution is much faster and simple
than extracting all C++ classes you need from KStars, and creating a Tcl/Tk
module from them (I do not know how to do this either). The precision of
the computations with this Tcl/Tk package is much lower than what you can 
achieve with KStars but it is rather reasonable. I licensed that package with 
the GPL and therefore you may modify or/and redistribute the code provided 
you follow the terms of the GPL license.

 Just a comment, if you look at the code you will see that many variables are 
in spanish,.. but this is not a problem for you :-)

You may download the package from here:

ftp://ftp.oan.es/pub/dist/soft/linux/astrowidget/astrow-0.8.tgz

regards,

Pablo.
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