OSX can't add-on

[Gregg]

new user, have downloaded educational add-ons but can't seem to access them from within Celestia. Word worksheet hyperlinks don'y function. i figure i'm doing or not doing something simple but can't figure out what it is. Help anyone?

[fsgregs]

Dear Gregg:

What you are experiencing is not your fault. There is a major problem with cel:url links inside of MS Word documents working on MAC OS X systems.

I don't have a MAC myself, but since I wrote the educational activities, and since I've had lots of complaints from people who can't get cel:url's to work on an OS X system, it is time we figured this out.

Stay tuned here. I will contact some folks that do use MAC's, and I'll let you know exactly what to do, hopefully within the next week.

Till then ....

Frank Gregorio

[fsgregs]

Gregg:

It seems that the problem lies not with Celestia nor with the activities, but (unfortunately) with the Mac version of MS Word. Versions of Word prior to Word 2004 apparently do not read cel:url's properly.

The only solution appears to be to upgrade to MAC Word 2004.

Sorry - I don't know how much that costs.

Frank

[dirkpitt]

The only solution appears to be to upgrade to MAC Word 2004.

Sorry - I don't know how much that costs.

Frank

As little as $195 according to Macworld, but if you're using Office on school computers
that's a different story How well would the Educational Activities translate to HTML?
As HTML, at least the hyperlinks would work. Not sure how well the formatting would
hold up though.

[Gregg]

Thanks everyone, Have upgraded to 2004 MS Office which has appeared to fix the links in the word documents. Still can't get images (eg Celestia 2 craft, etc.) to appear. I figure I am supposed to have rearranged the add-on files somehow but the only guidelines i can find relate to Windows folder hierachy.

[fsgregs]

Gregg:

Sigh! I am going over to a friends this week and examine the entire MAC setup. Until last week, I had no idea that a MAC Celestia installation did not use the C:/Program Files/Celestia folder tree. No wonder it is difficult to figure out how to place the Activity add-ons into the MAc folder structure.



Stay tuned.

Frank

[Gregg]

Hey, don't worry, i haven't worked out the add-ons yet but i still think the whole Celestia concept is absolutely brilliant and as an educator I cannot thank the developers enough for what they have done

[hank]

Until last week, I had no idea that a MAC Celestia installation did not use the C:/Program Files/Celestia folder tree.

It's true, Macs have no C: drive.

Normally addons just go in the Extras folder. Do these Activity addons require something different?

- Hank

[fsgregs]

I can answer things better if someone can tell me what the folder tree looks like in a Celestia MAC installation. Is there a "Celestia" folder?

Please, someone list the folder tree for me.

Thanks

Frank

[dirkpitt]

Under the current user's home folder (~) is:

Library/Application Support/CelestiaResources/

CelestiaResources contains everything that the PC's "Celestia" folder would
contain, minus the Celestia program itself. So:

CelestiaResources
|
+-data
+-extras
+-fonts
+-models
+-shaders
+-textures
celestia.cfg
demo.cel
guide.cel
start.cel