Where to start with scripting

[JamieInCLT]

Are there any docs or tutorials that tell you how to get started with PI scripting?

Thanks,

-jamie

[marekc]

Hi Jamie,

I'd be curious to learn about this, too. I'm not a programmer, and I'd love to learn enough to start making scripts to help my astro-imaging and image processing.

I'd love to learn some `scripting for non-programmers' for Pixinsight, and for MaximDL. I wish I could start building more automated workflows for my MaximDL acquisition, too.

It seems to me like it's often hard to find good guides to programming-related skills, that don't already assume the reader is a programmer.

- Marek

[JamieInCLT]

Mostly looking for some sort of browser of things that you can do- PJSR capabilities, etc. 

For example, some things that I might want to do-

• Build a list of files
• Specify a naming prefix in a text bose
• Get the exposure time from each the of files
• rename the files with the exposure time i them

I don't know how much use it would be to me, but it would be a good start

[Carlos Milovic]

Well, the first place to go is the source code of the current scripts Pick a simple one, and try to understand the code. Then, make a few minor changes, and see if it works...
If you want to use a process with a custom set of parameters, and you don't know the code, just configure it on it's window, and drop a instance on a process container. On the right you may see the js code to call that instance (expand the window).

[JamieInCLT]

Thanks!