JackHiggins wrote:It's probably just a bug with the windows version- I can live with it; I don't add in bookmaks that much, just for when I want to do nice screenshots etc.
Thanks for checking Jack.
The weird thing is that I too am running the Windows version, and don't see the problem. So I guess Chris is right, if it's buggy enough, it would affect some systems and not others I suppose -- and/or affect different versions of Windows (and patch levels) in different ways too.
Compared to Windows, things used to be a breeze to debug in DOS, mainframe, and mini-computers, but that gives away my age <laughing>. I'm still amazed that *any* program can actually run in Windows, because I've seen "under the hood of Windows" (it's API), tried working with it,as an experienced programmer at the time, but ran the other way, screaming madly, as fast as I could, and haven't looked back since <laughing>! So I hold anyone who can actually write a functioning Windows program (let alone have it running on multiple OS's) in high esteem, which includes the entire Celestia team.
This program simply blows me away, every time I run it, and think of all the possibilities, and all the add-ons out there, and the ones on the way. It's my first time being involved in an open-source project in any way, and it's kind of amazing to see how people living on different continents, that have probably never even met in person, can accomplish so much. And for the most part, it all WORKS -- REAL-TIME -- and in 3-D!
Man alive, if we had this kind of stuff when I was a kid, I would have become an astronaut or astronomer. I always had more questions than teachers / parents could answer -- you know, Enquiring minds want to know <grin>. Programs like Celestia, and other educational programs, are absolutely incredible "teaching" tools, 'cause kids think they're games, but they are learning math, programming, astronomy, space flight, artistic abilities, etc., etc., whatever the program is "teaching" -- and they're actually having FUN doing it <smile>.
Well, I'd better stop now or this will turn out to be a hundred pages long! I'm just "hyped" about Celestia, especially after having to really think about it to describe it and how it works to my wife at lunch today. I also had to reflect on my past couple weeks experience with it and a lot of "possibilities" as a teaching tool dawned on me when we both kinda said at the same time, "Imagine if WE had programs like this when we were kids?".
Soooo, go for the Gold, Celestia team! It's lookin' REAL GOOD from out here <great big smile>!
-Don
