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Freeware target analysis program

Ditto; really like the tool!

One thing that would be nice would be to be able to clear the data for a picture so that you could easily run multiple targets on the same photo (see attached) without having to reload the photo. Or maybe there is a simple way to do this that I'm missing?

Thank you. I am working on the next release, but at a slower rate since the current release seems to be pretty stable. I put in the functionality you asked for but it will have to wait for release until the next time I have enough done to warrant a release.

You're right, it would be handy to just click a button to have it reset the data for one portion of a target. Like I said, it's done now...just waiting while I make some other improvements.

#40Fan pointed out that you can hit delete until all the holes disappear, and it works (and is the only way on the current version), but not as sexy as just a menu item to click on. :)

--HC
 
An update is complete.

In this version I added some features which were requested such as the ability to click and drag hole markers into position and the ability to mark a point of aim and then calculate the adjustment in MOA to the scope to get the average group center to the POA.

I am working on implementing printing functionality and the ability to support both MOA and MIL-RAD and find that I need to really work this thing over to make that happen cleanly. I started out doing this with no clear plan of how far I'd go with it and with years of time of not having done programming (read: I didn't have my A-game going) which means the current state of the code is a bit of a mess. I'm probably going to break the heck out of it in the meantime so I wanted to get this out before I rendered it unusable.

The click-n-drag feature: once an image is loaded and a ref line is drawn, click the target near where you want to mark a hole then drag (keep the mouse button down) it to the hole you want to mark. Release the mouse button once you are happy with where it is located. Continue for the remaining holes. The delete key works as it did before to remove the holes in reverse order in case you misplace one.

The POA marking feature is found under the Action menu and works similarly to the Ref line; click the Set Aim Point menu item then click the target where the aim point was. Unfortunately, I didn't make it where you can delete the aim point if you get it wrong, so you'll have to repeat those steps if you place it poorly. Similarly, I didn't do a preview for drag-n-place like I did for the hole markers; it's just click near where you want it and pray. :) Maybe in the next version....

I will probably take a long time to get the thing re-worked to make it where it will do the printing easily. I may never finish it. No promises.

Finally, despite my sincerest efforts, I cannot get the #$%@ average radius to come out precisely correct; it winds up being 0.013 to 0.015 inch off from what I calculate with CorelDRAW and another analysis software. It's only a few thousandths of an inch...but still... >:|

--HC
 

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An update is complete.

In this version I added some features which were requested such as the ability to click and drag hole markers into position and the ability to mark a point of aim and then calculate the adjustment in MOA to the scope to get the average group center to the POA.

I am working on implementing printing functionality and the ability to support both MOA and MIL-RAD and find that I need to really work this thing over to make that happen cleanly. I started out doing this with no clear plan of how far I'd go with it and with years of time of not having done programming (read: I didn't have my A-game going) which means the current state of the code is a bit of a mess. I'm probably going to break the heck out of it in the meantime so I wanted to get this out before I rendered it unusable.

The click-n-drag feature: once an image is loaded and a ref line is drawn, click the target near where you want to mark a hole then drag (keep the mouse button down) it to the hole you want to mark. Release the mouse button once you are happy with where it is located. Continue for the remaining holes. The delete key works as it did before to remove the holes in reverse order in case you misplace one.

The POA marking feature is found under the Action menu and works similarly to the Ref line; click the Set Aim Point menu item then click the target where the aim point was. Unfortunately, I didn't make it where you can delete the aim point if you get it wrong, so you'll have to repeat those steps if you place it poorly. Similarly, I didn't do a preview for drag-n-place like I did for the hole markers; it's just click near where you want it and pray. :) Maybe in the next version....

I will probably take a long time to get the thing re-worked to make it where it will do the printing easily. I may never finish it. No promises.

Finally, despite my sincerest efforts, I cannot get the #$%@ average radius to come out precisely correct; it winds up being 0.013 to 0.015 inch off from what I calculate with CorelDRAW and another analysis software. It's only a few thousandths of an inch...but still... >:|

--HC
I'm sure there would be programmers out there who would be happy to help if you made the source code open source.

Seems a shame for all your work to become obsolete because the code isn't being maintained.
 
HBoothe thank you so much for all your hard work on something we all have fun using, but have absolutely no idea of how much work it is to be able to compose software. Oh and my targets will not notice measurements being off 0.013 to 0.015, believe me. LOL.
 

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