[Kstars-devel] sending object name thorugh indi interface

[Jasem Mutlaq]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 11:08 am, Michael Olberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am controlling our 2.3m student radio telescope through kstars/indi.
> The indi server is a small GUI I wrote using Qt, which allows to control
> the telescope stand-alone (i.e. without kstars) and to take spectra and
> display them. kstars is mainly used to easily track solar system objects
> (Sun mainly) and to quickly find locations within the milky way.
> I would like kstars to not only send RA,Dec when tracking a source,
> but also the name of the object (e.g. Sun) so that the information would
> end up as part of the header of my spectra. I realise I can create a text
> property which I could access through the indi control panel, but that
> would require that I fill in the information by hand, wouldn't it?
>
> Do I need to patch kstars for this or can it be done with the current
> (or future ;-)) version?

Hello Michael,

I just updated KStars so that it sends the object name if available to the 
drivers automatically on Slew/Track/Sync operations. On the driver side, you 
need to define ITextVectorProperty with name "OBJECT_INFO" which includes 1 
IText member with name "OBJECT_NAME". If KStars finds such a property, it 
will send the object name. Refer to apmount.[h,cpp] for an example.

To get the latest KStars, check it out from the SVN repository:

svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdeedu

then make -f Makefile.cvs, configure, make, and make install...etc

You said you developed your own INDI GUI client in Qt? I'm just curious to 
know if you developed that because KStars lacked some functionality in that 
regard (i.e. INDI GUI generation).

Clear skies,
Jasem