Greetings from NorthWest England

I was alerted to this very interesting project by John McNamara [many thanks, John] and have joined the forum to participate in this discussion. ... Hopefully I can be of some help on the optical side of things, but this first post concerns the software:

I have tried running the current version on my 2009 MacBook Pro, under el Capitan, and everything seemed fine except that I could not close the application ... it did not even respond to ‘Force Quit’ and I was obliged to re-boot the machine.

Windows users have a .bat file; so I am wondering if some ‘initialisation’ might be required before Java is happy running the application under OS X

I would be most grateful if anyone can advise.

MichaelG.