[Kstars-devel] possible features

[Dirk Huenniger]

Hello everybody,
I'm working on an indi driver for a 1m Telescope in Germany. Most of the 
features needed work well in my drivers when accessed with Kstars. We 
also have a non-indi gui writen in GTK. There are still some features in 
that version that I don't know how to implement in indi. We are 
considering to connect this very specific GTK gui as an indi-client, 
allthough it would conflict with the philosophy of indi. But I think it 
would be better to have a general indi client that incorporates most of 
them. I also have got three month of programming time left for this 
project, so I could try to take part in the development of Kstars, 
allthough I'm just a graduand of physics and not a computer scientist. I 
will just list the missing features, so you can tell me what you think 
about them:

Preview:
There is a preview that is updated during readout, furthermore such 
things as brightness contrast gamma can be changed at any time. The 
preview displays a 8 bit RGB image and the data is comming in 16 bit 
Monochrom. The conversion from 16 to 8 bits can be adjusted such that 
faint objects and even readout noise can be made visable.

Popus:
Some important messages are displayed in a Popup window that closes on 
OK button.

Terminal:
There is a Terminal window that displays the commands send to the CCD 
Controller on the left side and the messages received from it on the 
right side of a scrollable columned list. Furthermore it provides a 
command line in which the user can send commands directly to the 
Controller.

Hotkeys:
An exposure is stated by pressing F2 ENTER. An a flushing of the CCD is 
initiated by F7 ENTER.

Cheers,
 Dirk