CCDSoft
Cool Stuff

• Enabling the Run Script dialog

• On-line CCDSoft help

• The VB code

Let's say you wish to have one button enable the "Autosave" feature and another disable it. Well here is exactly how.

First create a Visual Basic Script (or equivalent) that sets the state of AutoSave. Then just assign one of the Run Script buttons in CCDSoft 5 (press the number 1 key) to the corresponding script.  It will take two buttons one for the "On" script and another for the "Off" script.  There is no ambiguity here.

Enabling the the Run Script dialog

Using View | Tool Bars | Tool Bars Setup in CCDSoft 5 will allow you enable the "Run Script" tool bar as shown below. Then you can simply press an unassigned button and assign any script to that button for quick simple easy painless access.  The name of the script is shown on the button.  See the following assigned example scripts AtFocus, CenterAndTake, autosaveoff, and autosaveon, Take Image and Map, etc. Being able to easily invoke scripts this way comes in very handy indeed.

View Tool Bars | Setup

Check Run Script

Press 1 to bring up the Run Script dialog

Assign the buttons to the scripts you want!

Assigning the Script to a button

To  assign a button to a script simply press the button then Browse your computer for the Script by name.  See below.

Cool!

Button 4 is now AutoSave-Off

To clear an assignment you must press CONTROL+SHIFT+Left Mouse button to clear the assignment and ask for a new one.

The VB Code

From the CCDSoft help file we get the following example code for accessing the AutoSave feature externally. And yes it really is this simple!

Option Explicit

Dim Cam

Set Cam = CreateObject("CCDSoft.Camera")

'------------------------------------------------------------
'Put/Get AutoSaveOn property 
'------------------------------------------------------------

Cam.AutoSaveOn = 1
'End

The above text is saved as "AutosaveOn.VBS".  And of course the following code saved as "AutoSaveOff.VBS",

Option Explicit

Dim Cam
Set Cam = CreateObject("CCDSoft.Camera")

'------------------------------------------------------------
'Put/Get AutoSaveOn property
'------------------------------------------------------------

Cam.AutoSaveOn = 0
'End

Now that the two scripts are created and saved they need only be assigned to the buttons per the above instructions.  Again, this makes enabling the Autosave feature quite simple.  Once you are in the habit of pressing the button AutoSave on you are less likely to forget.

Example 2 Take Image and Map!

What if you want a script that will take a CCD image then map the center of the image in TPoint. Here is how.