From: Milton Aupperle <maupperl@gmail.com>

Date: January 23, 2015 3:46:30 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Imaging triple transit ? [1 Attachment]

Ron;

On 2015-01-23, at 2:06 PM, Ron Pearson ursamajor_1@mac.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

[Attachment(s) from Ron Pearson included below] 

Milton, I've been trying out the scripts and had no luck.  I tried copy and paste the one in the manual and got a number of syntax errors, tried cleaning those up but no go.

It will depend on what you used to copy and paste the script with. Apple Preview app will sometimes mucks up text, especially if Appleworks created "smart quotes".

And AppleScript editor sometimes gets unhappy if it seems "≤" and not <= or vice versa.

Try this (I stripped all the comments out).

with timeout of 600 seconds

tell application "Astro IIDC"

if (start video) then

set grabforduration to 1800

set increment to 60

set recordtime to 30.0

set totaltime to (time of the (current date)) + grabforduration

set nextgrabtime to (time of the (current date))

repeat while ((time of the (current date)) ≤ totaltime)

delay 1.0

if (time of the (current date)) ≥ nextgrabtime then

set nextgrabtime to (time of the (current date)) + increment

if (start recording) then

delay recordtime

stop recording

else

say "Recording Movie Failed"

end if

end if

end repeat

end if

end tell

end timeout

 I then loaded the one in the dmg file and it ran but I got an OS-X error -120 and verbal message that it failed.   A screen capture image is attached if that helps any.      Ron

A -120 error is a Directory not found error. Check that theDefault  folder you are saving movies or images to exists on that Mac. You set it in "Preferences" sheet in the "Select default folder for grabbed frames, movies and logs..." button

 HTH..

Milton