On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, John A. Perry wrote:
Although Elwood gave his blessing on this mailing list, he had to decline
membership due to the volume of email he already gets. He asked that if
you have any suggestions (like adding your site) to be emailed to him
directly or posted to the discussion group on his webpage.
Hello...
Well as I see you are already collecting ideas, I also have one. :)
The idea to communicate with telescope through FIFOs and external
programs is really great. Why not expand that a bit? Add
user-configurable FIFOs. That way you get people writing all
sorts of 'add-ons'. For example it would be extremely simple to
write a shell script that would popup a window (xv, ee) with a
picture of a selected object. I already have (extremely buggy)
perl script that can listen to xephem FIFO and extract and print
in human-readable form data from the GCVS catalog. You could
have script that would open your browser and access information/pictures
of the object on the net or anything else you can think of.
Lookup and parse the Drayer code, let you write obs. log for
the object in your favourite editor... just right-click on object
and select the fifo you need. Config file should also be quite
simple. For example:
fifo1_filename menu_label
fifo2_filename menu_label
.
.
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So, what do you think?
Domjan
