This Active-X interfacing software allows the user to set the filter position of the filter-wheel through software commands. It can be used as a stand-alone control software, or it can be incorporated into a Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, LabView or any other software application that supports Active-X. This software only works on Windows operating systems.
Bi-Directional Rotation
The Sci-FilterWheel Active-X software has intelligent logic that allows it to change slot positions bi-directionally. For example, if the filter-wheel is on Slot Position 3, the software would instruct the filter-wheel to move forward to Slot Position 4 or move backwards to Slot Position 2. It would not say, move from Slot Position 3 to Slot Position 2 by going forward around the entire slot positions. However, there is still one small software flaw that needs to get fixed. Since Sci-Filterwheel software is used universally for all Sciencetech filter-wheels from the 4 slot model to the 8 slot model, it cannot apply this intelligent logic at the cross over point from the last slot to the first slot. For example, in a 4 slot filter-wheel, it would still go back 3 positions from Slot Position 4 to Slot Position 1 rather than going forward one position.