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Hi,
I'm using a mac G4 dual-processor and the Nvidia card it shipped with.
Not sure if this is a mac-only problem, but (it seems to be lately) if I copy a position in celestia, then paste, I get a starfield and the word "Track" in the lower right corner - but I never specified to track anything either during the copy or the paste of the cel url position.... It's like it's defaulted to track. And if I use "Set url" in a script, I have to set the cel URL, stop time, cancel {}, and re-select the object I'm dealing with, or again I get the unwanted Track command.... Any ideas? Is there some switch I inadvertantly enabled...???

Thanks!
-Rich

Rich,

I've never seen this. Sounds very strange. I tried a simple copy/go/paste and it worked fine for me. Do you have the problem consistently (on every cut/paste)? Can you give a more specific example and/or post one of the problem URLs?

- Hank

Hank,
The following 'copy' should paste and show a scene of the moon with the earth in the distance, on the left. I am 'following' the moon only. No "Track" when I copied this.

cel://Follow/Sol:Earth:Moon/2004-10-30T ... 56215&lm=0

When I paste it into clestia (or use it as a set url in a script), I get the scene, way off-center, with "follow moon", and now 'track' above it, with no subject; not "track moon", just "track".... I do not rememebr this happening before (I remember being very pleased with being able to cut/paste scenes), maybe there's a corruption somewhere??
-Rich

cel://Follow/Sol:Earth:Moon/2004-10-30T12:24:00.59681?x=5ABbmf06wyjKDA&y=g2UHge5agA&z=xKRPH9BgJHD2/////////w&ow=-0.051375&ox=0.934020&oy=0.304854&oz=0.178972&select=Sol:Earth:Moon&fov=12.932224&ts=1.000000<d=0&rf=56215&lm=0


cel:// ===>>>

Rich,

Your URL seems to work fine for me.

What versions of Celestia and Mac OS X are you using?

- Hank

Hank,
Celestia 1.3.1 v0.1
Mac OS X v 10.2.8

Maybe I should reinstall celestia (app only); is that worth a try?

-Rich

Howdy Rich,

How does one "paste" a cel:// URL into Celestia? Is this a Mac only feature? I use Windows.

Thanks,

Don,

"Pasting a URL" works fine with Windows. It's one of those things that you'd think "Oh, that could never work," so you never try it. (That was the case for me, anyhow. ) It's also called "drag and drop".

In other words, move the cursor over the URL. Press and hold down the Left-Mouse-Button don't release the button. While holding it down, move the cursor over an open Celestia window. Release the LMB. Celestia will act on the URL.

Dragging other types of URLs also works between browser windows and from a browser window to a file-system (explorer) window -- you can copy pictures that way, for example.

Hi Selden,

Thanks for your reply.

Assuming you are referring to the use of a HTML-formatted link on a web page, and not just plain text like I was thinking of ... why go to all that trouble when all you have to do is click the link? Or am I missing something?

Don,

Under Windows it's true that just clicking on a Cel:// URL does work fine.

Note, however, that if you have multiple versions of Celestia running, then you can use drag-and-drop to send the URL to whichever copy of the probram you want. Clicking on the URL will send the command to the copy of Celestia that was started last.

Thank you Selden <smile>.

Hi,
I use copy/paste exclusively; I'll either copy/paste into a script or copy the url and paste into celestia; a click on the link won't work for me (either a mac problem, my browser isn't configured properly)...

I'll reinstall the celestia ap & see if the problem clears up.

Rich