<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#660000;"><div>Paul,<br><br>Thanks for the heads up on ASCOM - I will steer clear of it until you give the all-clear. However, I still have a basic problem that I cannot connect to my AP1200 directly even without ASCOM (something that worked fine previously)... Any hints about where I should look?<br><br>Particulars are:<br><br>Dell XPS laptop<br>Windows XP<br>Prolific chipset based USB to Serial converter<br>Astro-Physics 1200 GTO CP3<br>Astroplanner 2.0b11<br><br>James<br><br>On Jan 1, 2009, at 02:28 PM, James Miller wrote:<br><br>> I am having problems connecting Astroplanner directly to my 1200GTO <br>> or to te 1200GTO driver in ASCOM. The symptom is that the <br>> application "beeps" at me and gives an error message "Unhandled <br>>
Exception: Nil Object Exception". While obviously the ASCOM <br>> connection was not existent in 1.6, I was always successful <br>> connecting directly to the AP 1200 (I know what comm port is in use, <br>> for example).<br>><br>> The particulars are:<br>><br>> Dell XPS laptop<br>> Prolific chipset based USB to Serial converter<br>> Astro-Physics 1200 GTO CP3<br>> Astroplanner 2.0b11<br>><br>> Because neither direct connect or ASCOM are working I think I have <br>> done something basic wrong... Does anyone have any suggestions?<br><br>Trust me when I say it's my problem. I haven't gotten around to fixing <br>up ASCOM yet (mostly because I can't get ASCOM drivers to work - <br>seamingly an ASCOM installation problem). Be patient.<br><br>Paul R.</div></div><br>
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