To Do List for WinTICS-24
Here is a list of features planned for WinTICS-24 Version 2.0 (in no
particular order...):
- Change axial filter wheel routines to support 0-12 position
filter wheels
- Add mode switch to change green LED and text colors to blue
for color-blind operators
- Eliminate all hooks for Mac-TCS support, as it is quickly becoming
obsolete *DONE*
- Eliminate support for Direct GAM control via serial port (obsolete)
*DONE*
- Change .ini file routines to Registry routines *DONE*
- Conditional compilation for 16/32 bit API calls *DONE*
- Replace all LED.VBX's with LED.OCX's *DONE*
- Add in-line error checking to checkbox routines to catch "Permission
Denied" serial port errors *DONE*
- Add in-line error checking to all other serial port routines *DONE*
- 3-D input/output text boxes *DONE*
- Add Topmost code to Slewing, Setting, Initializing, and Trailing windows
*DONE*
- Recode System Info routines for About Box *DONE*
- Program <Esc> key to close windows (Equivalent of "Cancel"
button) *DONE*
- Change the behaviour of the <Enter> key in the Trouble/ObsLog
dialogs *DONE*
- Change the behaviour of the <Enter> key in all coordinate input
boxes to <Tab> *DONE*
- Update NISTTime code *DONE*
- Add ToolTips to some buttons, text boxes, and led's *DONE*
- Change settings dialogs to tabbed controls *DONE*
- Settings tabs for Switches 1, filter labels, and URL's *DONE*
- User-definable labels for Switches 1 checkboxes *DONE*
- User-definable labels for imaging and spectrograph filter wheel positions
*DONE*
- Add auto-update of TCS time based on WinTICS time *DONE*
- DDE control of Netscape, for pulling up weather forecasts and satellite
images while observing, along with associated settings tab for specifying
several URL's *DONE*
- Add a Sounds Settings dialog and code so .wav files can be played at
the end of slews and on error messages *DONE*
- Change mouse pointer to hourglass while busy *DONE*
- Add NTP protocol so TICS can synchronize its PC's clock with network
time servers *DONE*
- Add internal TICS support for mailing trouble log entries, instead
of relying on external scripts and programs *DONE*
- Control of DFM-GAM guide probe motors *DONE*
- Add current spectrograph settings to preference pages. *DONE*
- Add ability to change the phone number that NIST Time dials to
update the system clock. *DONE*
- Update the help pages and web page to reflect Version 2.0. *DONE*
- Add TPoint pointing model support.
Comments? Email lhawkins@brashear.phys.appstate.edu
Last updated on: Tuesday, 08-Feb-2000 16:17:25 EST