I originally started this blog on yahoo 360 as a very informal record of my observations with my first telescope — a 3″ Newtonian reflector. Over the years my notes have become a little more structured and detailed, and I moved it to WordPress when support for 360 failed.
Writing about my observations has led me to ask questions I might never have otherwise asked, and to revisit issues I might have otherwise forgotten. This journal is posted online mostly as a convenience for me, but I welcome comments and I would enjoy hearing from other amateur astronomers also learning to journal their observations.
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Hello,
I find your blog very interesting.
After reading some of your articles I find in one (It’s All About Control – 28 August, 2009) that you modded DIYPB to display images in Irfanview. I’m writing to you asking if you can tell me how have you done that.
Thank you and have a nice day!
Costel,
Thanks for your interest. I actually modified the VBScript code for DIYPB to display images in Irfanview. The big challenge was figuring out the VBScript API — I do write software for a living but I had never done VBScript. The real key was to create a shell object to execute the command to launch irfanview.
There are two snippets of code required. They both need to be added to Sub fnShutterRelease in the file “Camera Control.hta” in the DIYPB folder. The first snippet declares new variables needed for launching irfanview. Add this code to the top of sub fnShutterRelease.
Dim objShell
Dim systemCommand
The next snippet goes near the end of the sub. The last few lines of the sub look like this:
End If
End If
BlockTether = false
End If
End Sub
Just insert the three lines as shown below:
End If
set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
systemCommand = "C:\Progra~1\Irfanview\i_view32.exe " + downloadedfilename
objShell.Run systemCommand
End If
BlockTether = false
End If
End Sub
If you’re running a 64-bit OS then your path for irfanview might be different.
Best of luck to you. Let me know how it turns out!
Lee Jenkins