My interest is related to an asteroid occultation website I wrote and maintain:
http://occult.tungstentech.com I would like to have CdC show the target star and asteroid automatically after clicking on a link. There is more to that than just the TCP/IP interface but it's a piece of the puzzle. Sander Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell wrote: > > > Hi Geoff, > > I think the misunderstanding is with the word 'interface'. In this case it > has nothing to do with the human user interface of CdC. The interface to > which we (Sander, Paul and myself) are referring is a method for > communicating with and controlling CdC from another program running on the > same or another remote computer. In this particular instance that Paul is > discussing, he would very much like to control CdC from within his > AstroPlanner product. For example, a user could use AstroPlanner to find a > particular star based on some search parameters. Once found, CdC could be > 'called' from within AstroPlanner and be used to display the star location > at a particular time and place. The 'called' is where the TCP/IP interface > comes in. > > A little background can be found at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite> > > Hopefully the above refers to the correct wheel! :-) If not, please let me > know. > > Regards > > Robin > > P.S. I have no connection with AstroPlanner other than being a very happy > customer who does some beta testing and produces a whole lot of probably > useless scripts! >
