PI Update

[llpastro]

I just updated to 1.8.4.  I am fairly new to PI and this is my first major update.  I expected all my personalized settings to be retained after the update but they are all at default again.  In the future is there something I should do to preserve them?  If this was in the update instructions, I missed it.

Larry

[Juan Conejero]

Sorry, but unfortunately some critical application settings are too different in version 1.8.4, so settings from 1.8.3 cannot be preserved. In the future you can save a Preferences icon (EDIT > Global Preferences) and save it to an xpsm file. You can always load the icon and apply it. However, a drastic change is very unlikely to happen in the coming versions.

[mikalovich]

Hello......I am running PI on my 2 computers. I just installed the new version 1.8.4 on the computer I don't use as often to see the changes. I noticed that some of the scripts I added from featured scripts were not there, like "color mask", which I really love playing with. I went to featured scripts and I can not find it in there at all. In the old version when I go to featured scripts it is there but not the new one. Are they going to add this back to the featured scripts? Like I said I really like playing with this script and now I don't want to update to the new version on the computer I use the most to process with unless I can add the color mask script back. Should I ignore the update to 1.8.4 on the computer I use the most or will they add this script back to the featured scripts? Was there something wrong with this script to not get included under featured scripts?

[msmythers]

mikalovich

See your posting from May. http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=7751.msg55555#msg55555
I don't think ColorMask is yet part of the normal distribution but I could be wrong. I have not upgraded yet. You should be able to add it like you did in May.



Mike

[jerryyyyy]

With the update I noticed that the BatchPreprocessing Script no longer retains the names of my Bias, Darks and Flats when I save an icon.  I like to retain the settings and control files... used to do this. Retains output file name and registration target image. 

Me or You?

[Juan Conejero]

With the update I noticed that the BatchPreprocessing Script no longer retains the names of my Bias,

I can't reproduce this problem on Linux and Windows. Bias, dark, flat and light frames are correctly preserved in and restored from process icons generated from the BatchPreprocessing script.

[jerryyyyy]

Something funny is going on in my install.  If I save the icon say on subframe selector, I see the "Expression" code in the "Script" window, but if I hit the dark circle, which I think activates the script, the script comes up but without the expression. 

Is there a special way to say these Icons?  I used to just drag the triangle to the desktop. 

On preprocessing I try to save new icons but it does not retain the file information....

[jerryyyyy]

This is a process icon created from the BatchPreprocessing script that does NOT seem to have lines for retaining the Bias, Dark and Flats files retained.

[mschuster]

Something funny is going on in my install.  If I save the icon say on subframe selector, I see the "Expression" code in the "Script" window, but if I hit the dark circle, which I think activates the script, the script comes up but without the expression. 

I can't reproduce this problem on Win7 1171. The Script window shows the correct SubframeSelector expressions and target file names. And when I launch the script (yes, Apply Global, the circle), everything appears to be restored properly.

I tried the same experiment with BatchPreprocessing, the same test works fine also.

Mike

[jerryyyyy]

I am going to reinstall.... hope it is clean.  Program works, but this defect is irritating. 

[jerryyyyy]

I have done a clean install x 2 and I still cannot save the BPP script with the relevant file names.  There are no lines for the file names in the script.  Are there some settings somewhere that I can remove that might be doing this?  Registry? 

Icon from my set up enclosed.