PCL: ImageInspection > StarMonitor module

[gvanhau]

Hello

I wanted to try this module, but can not install it in PixInsight.
Run PixInsight > Menu > Process > Modules > Install Modules  does not show it.

My OS is Win 7 - 64 bit
PI is 1.7.06.0793

Regards
Geert

[NKV]

I wanted to try this module, but can not install it in PixInsight.

Did you read previous post?

[gvanhau]

I wanted to try this module, but can not install it in PixInsight.

Did you read previous post?

Yes I did.
I instaled the freeglut DLL an the 64bit version form the #1 post in the Pi/bin directory...

Am I missing something else?

Regards
Geert

[NKV]

I instaled the freeglut DLL an the 64bit version form the #1 post in the Pi/bin directory...

You are sure about the #1 post? No freeglut.dll in the #1 post.

One again: How to install:

1) Close PixInsight
2) Download freeglut package ( for example from this page http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel  Click on Download freeglut 2.8.0-1 for MSVC ) , unpack it and put only freeglut.dll to PixInsight/Bin folded. Note in the package there are 32 or 64 version.
3) Download StarMonitor module from #1 post, unpack it and put StarMonitor-pxm.dll to PixInsight/Bin folded.
4) Run PixInsight > Menu > Process > Modules > Install Modules

[gvanhau]

Hello Nikolay

I followed exactly these steps.
The only thing I'm now not 100% shure is that I picked the 64 bit version of freeglut.dll from the zip file.
I will check this out this evening, when I return from work.

Thanks for you fast responce.

Regards
Geert

[gvanhau]

Confirmed, using 64 bit FreeGlut.dll works ok

[NKV]

Good!

[jeffweiss9]

Nikolay-
 I followed your instructions in #18, making sure I got the 64bit freeglut.dll, putting it with StarMonitor-pxm.dll (from StarMonitor-pxm_Win64_1.0.3.001.rar) in Program Files / PixInsight / bin.   Yet, when I run Install Modules from PI 1.7, it doesn't see any modules to install.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
R/Jeff

[georg.viehoever]

Has this module ever found its way into the official distribution?

[Herbert_W]

+++1 - it should be in the  official  distribution!!

[pfile]

yeah i mean especially since we can't build it for ourselves for non-windows platforms...

rob

[Juan Conejero]

Hi,

This is an extremely interesting and nice project, but I cannot include a module in the official distribution if it isn't portable to all supported platforms.

[troypiggo]

Nikolay-
 I followed your instructions in #18, making sure I got the 64bit freeglut.dll, putting it with StarMonitor-pxm.dll (from StarMonitor-pxm_Win64_1.0.3.001.rar) in Program Files / PixInsight / bin.   Yet, when I run Install Modules from PI 1.7, it doesn't see any modules to install.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
R/Jeff

Same problem here.  PixInsight Core 01.08.00.1023 RC7 Ripley (x64).
In Windows Explorer I can see the files in the C:\Prog Files\PI\bin folder, but in PI->Process->Modules->Install Modules and do a search, they aren't detected.  I installed the 64 bit of freeglut.  Admittedly I used the 1.0.2 version of StarMonitor as the endor server link for 1.0.3 isn't working for me.

[troypiggo]

Nikolay-
 I followed your instructions in #18, making sure I got the 64bit freeglut.dll, putting it with StarMonitor-pxm.dll (from StarMonitor-pxm_Win64_1.0.3.001.rar) in Program Files / PixInsight / bin.   Yet, when I run Install Modules from PI 1.7, it doesn't see any modules to install.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
R/Jeff

Same problem here.  PixInsight Core 01.08.00.1023 RC7 Ripley (x64).
In Windows Explorer I can see the files in the C:\Prog Files\PI\bin folder, but in PI->Process->Modules->Install Modules and do a search, they aren't detected.  I installed the 64 bit of freeglut.  Admittedly I used the 1.0.2 version of StarMonitor as the endor server link for 1.0.3 isn't working for me.

FYI just updated to the shiny new PI 1.08.00.1071 and same issue.

[Andres.Pozo]

FYI just updated to the shiny new PI 1.08.00.1071 and same issue.

I think the problem is that you are trying to use a module compiled for a version of 2012 of PixInsight. The modules have to be recompiled for each version of PixInsight and for all the platforms.

This is perhaps the main reason that I write scripts instead of modules. Keeping current a module requires a lot of effort and IMHO only Juan can do it.
There are several interesting modules like this (SuperBias, Interchannel curves) that can not be used by most users of PI.
On the other hand, the scripts are intrinsically multiplatform and they rarely require modifications for new versions of PI.