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.