Integrating Celestia with external application

[jayagopalan]

Hi,

1. Is there a way to integrate Celestia with exterrnal applications ?
2. Are there any APIs that we can use for integration ?
3. How can we use Celestia with in a web browser ?

Thanks,
Jay.

[selden]

Jay,

I'm sorry about the delay in getting back to you.

1a. Celestia's Lua I/O functions can read and write disk files which can be read and written by other programs.
1b. Some people have modified their own copies of Celestia to communicate in realtime to other programs using tcp/ip or other communications protocols, but none of those routines have gotten into the main development code.

2. No, Celestia does not have an API which can be called from other programs. However, you could write a CELX script in the Lua programming language.

3. Some people have modified their own copies of Celestia to interact with HTML, but none of those routines have gotten into the main development code. An example is "Welcome to the Neighbourhood", which can be seen at http://www.futurelab.org.uk/projects/sp ... st/details
You might try contacting its author for details.

I hope this helps a little.

[duds26]

Go to sourceforge.net, and type in the search field Celestia
This gives not only celestia but also a few projects.
Mayby there you can find someone who has some information for you.