- Fixed conflicts in ascon.c

- Supressed superfluous message from fmess
- Expanded multicounter to deal with threshold commands nicely
- Fixed an an issue with an uninitialized dummy connection in nserver
- Many changes to simidex to make it work in a more reliable way.
- Added hdbfactory path alias targetpath
- Extended frame to deal with sinqhttp HM

singlex.c

@@ -710,8 +710,11 @@ const double *SXGetUB()
 void SXSetUB(double ub[9])
 {
   pHdb node = NULL;
-  pSingleX priv = (pSingleX) singlex->pPrivate;
 
+  if(singlex == NULL){
+	  return;
+  }
+  pSingleX priv = (pSingleX) singlex->pPrivate;
   node = GetHipadabaNode(singlex->objectNode, "ub");
   assert(node != NULL);
   SetHipadabaPar(node, MakeHdbFloatArray(9, ub), NULL);
@@ -777,12 +780,15 @@ void SXSetCell(double cell[6])
 /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 double SXGetLambda()
 {
-  pSingleX priv = (pSingleX) singlex->pPrivate;
   pSicsVariable lam = NULL;
   float val;
   hdbValue v;
   pHdb node = NULL;
 
+  if(singlex == NULL){
+	  return -99.9;
+  }
+  pSingleX priv = (pSingleX) singlex->pPrivate;
   if (priv->lambdaDriv != NULL) {
     return priv->lambdaDriv->GetValue(priv->lambdaVar, pServ->dummyCon);
   } else if (priv->lambdaVar != NULL) {
@@ -792,7 +798,7 @@ double SXGetLambda()
   }
   node = GetHipadabaNode(singlex->objectNode, "lambda");
   assert(node != NULL);
-  GetHipadabaPar(node, &v, NULL);
+  GetHipadabaPar(node, &v, pServ->dummyCon);
   return v.v.doubleValue;
 }
 
@@ -820,16 +826,20 @@ T_SgInfo *SXGetSpaceGroup()
 /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 pSingleDiff SXGetDiffractometer()
 {
-  pSingleX priv = (pSingleX) singlex->pPrivate;
   const double *cell, *ub;
   double lambda;
   int i;
 
+  
   /* Not initialized. 
    * Trouble is motors need to be configured first, the we can set a diffractometer.
    * If this is ever triggered, the most likely cause is that no mode was selected in the 
    * initialisation file. 
    */
+  if(singlex == NULL){
+	  return NULL;
+  }
+  pSingleX priv = (pSingleX) singlex->pPrivate;
   if (priv->diffractometer->calculateSettings == NULL) {
     return NULL;
   }
@@ -851,6 +861,9 @@ void SXSetMode(SingleXModes m)
 {
   pHdb node = NULL;
 
+  if(singlex == NULL){
+	  return;
+  }
   node = GetHipadabaNode(singlex->objectNode, "mode");
   assert(node != NULL);