Database Search engine?

The place to discuss creating, porting and modifying Celestia's source code.
Topic author
DavidR
Posts: 45
Joined: 12.03.2002
With us: 22 years 8 months
Location: Switzerland

Database Search engine?

Post #1by DavidR » 28.12.2002, 18:06

Sometimes when I go to navigation menu, to search a celest corp I do not know exactly the name of the object and in this case it is imposible to see.

I think I am not only with this problem.

Do you plan to introduce a search engine to search in the star database ?

Topic author
DavidR
Posts: 45
Joined: 12.03.2002
With us: 22 years 8 months
Location: Switzerland

Post #2by DavidR » 02.01.2003, 00:00

I have understanding today how the data is stored and for what reason do not exist a search engine for objects.

stars.dat only contain an id of star and parameters. The names and synonimous are stored in starnames.dat.

In fact, I think, it is dificult to create a search engine because he need to search in a lot of files ( \data and \extras files) and for that the system need to index files like a database, and this files can not be indexed because users can be modify at any time.
David Rodriguez


Return to “Development”