[Kstars-devel] "Devices" menu missing?

[Jonathan Tomshine]

Okay, I promise to stop spamming the list, but I thought I should
mention that I have (apparently?) been able to get the Devices/INDI
menu up & working in MacOS 10.6 -- at least as an indi client:

http://www.jshine.net/plogger/plog-content/images/misc/temp/screen-capture.png

Of course, since I don't have a mount physically attached to my
computer, I can't *really* test it -- trying to connect to a
nonexistent mount just throws the expected error -- but everything
looks as good as I could expect with what I have available.  The
"Local/Server" option still seems to not work, but acting as a client
is good enough -- I can run the server separately.

It would be nice if this feature wasn't deliberately disabled quite so
forcefully in the configuration stage.  Why can't cmake just look for
INDI, as opposed to assuming that it's not there on non-linux systems?

-Jon




On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Jonathan Tomshine <jtomshine at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...so, just on a whim, I tried disabling the linux check in kstars'
> CMakeLists.txt:
>
> #IF(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} STREQUAL "Linux")
>
> and recompiled.  In looking at the output of the configure stage, it
> appears that INDI was found okay, and the compiling went well.  I
> needed to tinker with library paths a bit to get the resulting binary
> to load without throwing an error (OSX GUI programs don't see the same
> path as the command line) but it now does load okay.  Sadly, the
> "Devices" menu is *still* missing...  Is there some other check that I
> need to disable that I'm just not seeing?
>
> -Jon
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com> wrote:
>>>Of course kstars is designed for linux machines, but it's also
>>>available to OSX users through the "kdeedu4" macport. I'm not sure how
>>>many other people use it like this, but I've noticed that the
>>>"Devices" menu (and hence any ability to control an INDI hardware
>>>setup) is entirely missing:
>>>
>>>http://www.jshine.net/plogger/plog-content/images/misc/temp/screen-capture-
>> 1.png
>>>
>>>I'm not sure if this is something that is unique to Macs -- I don't
>>>have a linux machine with X handy.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> INDI library only works under Linux. You can't find the "Devices" menu under
>> any other operating system.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jasem
>>
>>
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>
>
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> Jonathan Tomshine, PhD
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> University of California, San Francisco
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>



-- 
Jonathan Tomshine, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist
University of California, San Francisco
Genentech Hall, 600 16th St.
San Francisco, CA 94158-2140