ASIStudio mount controller delimiter problem

mfender

Hi,

in the Mount Controller of ASIStudio 1.7 some numbers show strange delimiters.
Maybe a culture/region/ascii codepage problem, but this is just an assumption.

Look at the screenshot (DEC, Altitude, Azimuth, Latitude, Longitude):

Regards
Matt
By the way: The window of the Mount Controller is larger than the screen of my laptop (1366x768) (just like the windows for DeepStack and VideoStack). It's no fun to use it like that.
The distances between the single elements of the GUI could be made much smaller...

ASIStudio@ZWO

mfender

mfender in the Mount Controller of ASIStudio 1.7 some numbers show strange delimiters.
Maybe a culture/region/ascii codepage problem, but this is just an assumption.

Conveyed to the team.

mfender By the way: The window of the Mount Controller is larger than the screen of my laptop (1366x768) (just like the windows for DeepStack and VideoStack). It's no fun to use it like that.
The distances between the single elements of the GUI could be made much smaller...

You can try mini window.

ASIStudio@ZWO

mfender in the Mount Controller of ASIStudio 1.7 some numbers show strange delimiters.
Maybe a culture/region/ascii codepage problem, but this is just an assumption.

Look at the screenshot (DEC, Altitude, Azimuth, Latitude, Longitude):

Devs would like to know what is your system language and country, and suggest you set them as English,USA and retry.

mfender

@ASIStudio@ZWO#60866 You can try mini window.

Thank you for the response!
Unfortunately the mini window has not all informations and options.
And try this:
Call the mini window from the main (big) window of the mount controller and drag it to the upper left corner of the screen (let's say you don't want it to interfere with other active program windows).
Then switch back to the big window, now the latter has changed it's position so that you can no longer close it, because the closing button is outside the screen!
Such a kind of window handling by a program is not "best practice", and the same is true when a window opens larger than the screen.
Many astrophotographers are using a laptop with a small screen by the telescope.
To me it seems as if the window for Mount Controller has been developped by a different developing team than -let's say - the main window of ASIStudio or ASIImg; the latter ones are behaving correctly, they adapt to the resolution of the user's screen.

Best regards
Matt

enaiman

mfender It is all about window resizing and how it was handled by developers.
Since the window has a few images, those cannot be resized automatically to fit the new window size. If everthing resizes but the images, the interface would look weird and in some cases the images will end up over other controls.
To avoid this, the developers took the lazy approach to simply not alllow resizing in order to keep the GUI looking good.
Really lazy and un-professional. They could have at least included a few resized versions of those images and allow a few different scales for the GUI (75%, 50%) or allow full resizing and get rid of the images.

ASIStudio@ZWO

mfender Call the mini window from the main (big) window of the mount controller and drag it to the upper left corner of the screen (let's say you don't want it to interfere with other active program windows).
Then switch back to the big window, now the latter has changed it's position so that you can no longer close it, because the closing button is outside the screen!

Sorry for the problem but I cannot reproduce the issue, can you take a video or screenshot to show it?
Will try smaller resolution such 1024*640 in the future.

mfender

enaiman Really lazy and un-professional. They could have at least included a few resized versions of those images and allow a few different scales for the GUI (75%, 50%) or allow full resizing and get rid of the images.

In another discussion I made a suggestion for a more compact ascom driver window for the AM5:
https://bbs.astronomy-imaging-camera.com/d/15262-suggestion-a-more-compact-driver-window
At the moment the driver has two (!) windows cluttering my screen, wasting enormous amounts of precious space. I shrinked the images since they are no more than decoration anyway, and all textboxes, comboboxes and buttons fit into a single window, if the sizes of the textboxes and buttons are reduced to the size really needed.
If the window is small enough the need to downscale it will disappear...
I am very curious to see if the window design will change in the future.

But here (the Mount Control window of ASIStudio) it's in fact not really professional to offer a window that is larger than the screen of my perfectly normal notebook.
Matt

ASIStudio@ZWO

enaiman

enaiman It is all about window resizing and how it was handled by developers.
Since the window has a few images, those cannot be resized automatically to fit the new window size. If everthing resizes but the images, the interface would look weird and in some cases the images will end up over other controls.
To avoid this, the developers took the lazy approach to simply not alllow resizing in order to keep the GUI looking good.
Really lazy and un-professional. They could have at least included a few resized versions of those images and allow a few different scales for the GUI (75%, 50%) or allow full resizing and get rid of the images.

Considering that after the initial process(connection,switch mode and sync info), this feature will not need to be pay attention to, so we make a mini window only shows the necessary button.

mfender

@ASIStudio@ZWO#60905 Devs would like to know what is your system language and country, and suggest you set them as English,USA and retry.

Germany, culture de-DE.
Changing the region only (to "English, USA") has no success.
Looks like the ascii-codes for
°
'
"
are wrong.
Only when I set the "region for programs that are not compatible to Unicode" to "chinese", the delimiters are correct.

Your program doesn't support Unicode.

ASIStudio@ZWO

mfender Conveyed to the team.

mfender

@ASIStudio@ZWO#60907 Sorry for the problem but I cannot reproduce the issue, can you take a video or screenshot to show it?

Here we go, this time on a 1920x1080 screen.
Start Mount Controller from e.g. ASIImg.

Click rectangle (green arrow above) to change to mini window.

Drag window to upper left corner (to leave space for other programs).

Now you want to change back to main window, because coordinates are of interest. Click rectangle (green arrow).

oops!

By the way: The mini window is not "mini" at all. It could be half the size.
Matt

mfender

@ASIStudio@ZWO#60908 Considering that after the initial process(connection,switch mode and sync info), this feature will not need to be pay attention to, so we make a mini window only shows the necessary button.

The mini window is a good idea, but nevertheless the main window, even if I need it for a short time only, should be programmed carefully (at least fit on my notebook screen).
Matt

ASIStudio@ZWO

mfender The mini window is a good idea, but nevertheless the main window, even if I need it for a short time only, should be programmed carefully (at least fit on my notebook screen).

Thank you very much for the feedback, brought your suggestions to the team.