[APBeta] Question & suggestion

[Paul Rodman]

On Jul 18, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Tony Barry wrote:

> If you can release v2 for Mac now ... would you consider doing so?  I am using v1 and would really appreciate the new features.

It's not yet ready for release. I still need to finish the Help feature, and I also need to write manuals. Hopefully by the time that's finished most of the Windows version bugs will be hunted down and exterminated.

> As to Mac vs Win ... I use Mac all the time.  But I have had to write two pieces of software myself to use my GStar with Mac ... one was a frame-by-frame exporter (from iMovie's .mov files to individual greyscale TIFFs) and the other was an alternative to iMovie which provides greyscale TIFFs or colour PNGs directly.
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> If a person did not have access to software generating tools , and the inclination to learn their use, then I would say without hesitation that in a niche area like astro work, the PC has an edge that is not easily beaten.
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> At present, there's only one guiding package that will work with a GStar camera on Mac - and it's not PhD.  Darryl Robertson's Equinox will work with QT inputs from a Firewire Canopus ADVC frame grabber.  Whereas on the PC, PhD will work with generic webcam input.

I'm not familiar with the GStar camera, but I seem to recall there is a generic webcam driver available from IOExperts (http://www.ioxperts.com/) that might do the trick.

Paul R.