Celestia 1.4.0 is ready

[suwalski]

Just to be sure: is the 1.4 final built on exactly same tree than the latest CVS?

Yes, and it's also tagged so you can always check out the release code.

celestia-1.4.0.tar.gz is probably the best way to go.

[fsgregs]

FYI, I am home this week for winter break and will complete a revision to the User's Manual for 1.4.0. I'll send it to Chris by Friday or so, and post it on the Motherlode in the documentation page as well.



If anyone can convert it to PDF so that all the included cel:url's work, let me know and I'll send it to you via email.


Frank

[suwalski]

FYI, I am home this week for winter break and will complete a revision to the User's Manual for 1.4.0. I'll send it to Chris by Friday or so, and post it on the Motherlode in the documentation page as well.

This is a Word file?

"My Kingdom for a manual written in TeX or DocBook."

[fsgregs]

suwalski:

Yes, the base file is in MS Word 2003

Frank

[BlindedByTheLight]

Another thanks from me. One thought... depending on my uses, I find I keep needing to reset the preferences a lot. I suspect I could do the same thing by just trashing the preferences file. It'd be nice to have a RESET TO DEFAULT hard-coded but I understand if that's not a priority. I'm not a coder... but I thought an Applescript might be a partial stop-gag.

In in other words, you double-click a file (included in the celestia folder) that says - DOUBLE-CLICK TO RESTORE PREFERENCES....

...and it tosses the Celestia preferences file in the trash. I'm not an Applescript coder but I imagine such a thing isn't too difficult so:

1) If trashing the preferences does work and
2) People think this is a worthwhile tool

Let me know and I'll see if I can figure out how to do it.

Thanks,
S

[dirkpitt]

Another thanks from me. One thought... depending on my uses, I find I keep needing to reset the preferences a lot. I suspect I could do the same thing by just trashing the preferences file. It'd be nice to have a RESET TO DEFAULT hard-coded but I understand if that's not a priority. I'm not a coder... but I thought an Applescript might be a partial stop-gag.

In in other words, you double-click a file (included in the celestia folder) that says - DOUBLE-CLICK TO RESTORE PREFERENCES....

...and it tosses the Celestia preferences file in the trash. I'm not an Applescript coder but I imagine such a thing isn't too difficult so:

1) If trashing the preferences does work and
2) People think this is a worthwhile tool

If enough people think this is useful, this feature could be added to Celestia (OS X) in the form of a button that you could press in the Preferences panel, or perhaps a menu item like in Safari. This would make it easy for anyone to reset their settings, and it wouldn't trash both your settings *and* your favorites like what happens if you trash your preferences file. (Of course the favorites do need to be separated out as a file on its own, but that's a different issue)

[alphap1us]

It'd be nice to have a RESET TO DEFAULT hard-coded but I understand if that's not a priority.

If enough people think this is useful, this feature could be added to Celestia (OS X) in the form of a button that you could press in the Preferences panel, or perhaps a menu item like in Safari. This would make it easy for anyone to reset their settings, and it wouldn't trash both your settings *and* your favorites like what happens if you trash your preferences file. (Of course the favorites do need to be separated out as a file on its own, but that's a different issue)

+1 from me. I'd love this.

Cheers,
Joe

[ANDREA]

If enough people think this is useful, this feature could be added to Celestia (OS X) in the form of a button that you could press in the Preferences panel, or perhaps a menu item like in Safari.

+1 from me. I'd love this.

Cheers,
Joe

I'm the #2, thank you.
Bye

Andrea

[BlindedByTheLight]

Then I guess I count as +3....

(crap... i couldn't be 1?!!!)

[ElChristou]

Ok for me... 4,

(with preference for a menu item if possible.)

[Don. Edwards]

So, does this mean that with the present buggs we are better off with an older version of Celestia at this point versus jumping to the update?

Don.

[calder]

Another thanks from me. One thought... depending on my uses, I find I keep needing to reset the preferences a lot. I suspect I could do the same thing by just trashing the preferences file. It'd be nice to have a RESET TO DEFAULT hard-coded but I understand if that's not a priority. I'm not a coder... but I thought an Applescript might be a partial stop-gag.

In in other words, you double-click a file (included in the celestia folder) that says - DOUBLE-CLICK TO RESTORE PREFERENCES....

...and it tosses the Celestia preferences file in the trash. I'm not an Applescript coder but I imagine such a thing isn't too difficult so:

1) If trashing the preferences does work and
2) People think this is a worthwhile tool

If enough people think this is useful, this feature could be added to Celestia (OS X) in the form of a button that you could press in the Preferences panel, or perhaps a menu item like in Safari. This would make it easy for anyone to reset their settings, and it wouldn't trash both your settings *and* your favorites like what happens if you trash your preferences file. (Of course the favorites do need to be separated out as a file on its own, but that's a different issue)

Sounds handy, me 5!

Maybe we could also have a system where we could save numerous preferences and load them up when necessary. Eg. one for orbits, one for constellations etc.