[APBeta] Scope control problems with aPv2b35

[Bruce Pipes]

Paul,

Last night I tried to give APv2b35 running in Mac OS 10.5.6 a workout  
with my LX200R and had two problems. The first was caused by me, but  
AP responded in an odd way. I had set one of my slew limits wrong (I  
set the dec limit to less than 50°, rather than greater than 50°) so  
that the scope was over the limit upon startup. When I connected to  
the scope, I got a scope communications window that was printing over  
and over again what the scope was trying to do. I could not close the  
window and I could not force quit AP, so I had to shut down the  
computer. When I restarted the computer, I found a text file on the  
desktop that contained the following, which is what was appearing over  
and over in the window that popped up:

Logging started at: 4/25/09  8:30 PM
Version=2.0b35
Platform: Mac OS X
0.000	Get R.A. (T)	#:GR#	09:37:54#	09:37:54
0.405	Get Declination (T)	#:GD#	-00*01:02#	-00°01'02"
1.552	Get R.A. (T)	#:GR#	09:37:54#	09:37:54

I then restarted AP, set the dec limit to the proper value, and  
connected. Things seemed to go fine (I did a high precision slew to a  
couple of objects) until I clicked Slew to Home (and disconnect), at  
which point AP froze up. It was totally unresponsive and would not let  
me force quit. Also, it did not slew the scope to home; I had to do  
that with the handbox. I then restarted the computer and used APv1.6.1  
the remainder of the evening. It worked fine, as usual.

Bruce