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I have just uploaded my first contribution to Celestia to the Motherlode. It is a script to serve as a reference for anyone working on CELX scripting and shows syntax, explanations, code snippets and demonstrations for each of the methods available in CELX.

I hope it helps someone. Please feel free to comment and suggest.

Clive,

Just went looking for your guide at the Motherlode, but I can't find it
anywhere yet. Did you just upload it? Or, is it posted and I just
can't find it?

Would be very interested in another explanation of CELX. Especially for
the BrainDead.

Thanks.

I just uploaded it a few hours ago. The site says it may take a while for the moderators to actually make it available.

I guess we'll just have to wait. But thanks for the interest and I'll be very interested in hearing what you think of it.

Here it is:

http://celestiamotherlode.net/creators/ ... er/CVG.zip

Cheers,
Joe

alphap1us wrote:Here it is:

http://celestiamotherlode.net/creators/ ... er/CVG.zip

Hey, thanks a lot, Joe...

Didn't mean to hurry you though. Was just asking. I've downloaded
the guide and I'll let Clive know what I think after I digest it for a
while.

Thanks again.

Clive,

I installed the CELX Guide and I'd just like to say that its approach to the
subject is a very nice way to pass on information. This must have
been a lot of work.

Obviously, I haven't gone through the whole thing yet, but it's very easy to
use, and it does impart the concepts of each CELX command in an
easy to follow method. Many thanks for this effort. If used with the other
written documents, this is the perfect way to educate oneself in CELX.

Hell, I'll probably just play with it for a while to watch it in action. So far, I
haven't seen any bugs, but the displays are sometimes hard to read when
they're presented directly in front of a planet. I noticed a few other minor
confusions - at least to me - but overall this is a very nice tool.

I'll let you know more when I've had a chance to play with it for a while.

Much appreciated my friend.

Thanks very much.

Thanks for the encourging words, Bob. And, yes, it was a lot of work; just over a year 's worth (mainly because my fiancee thinks of this as 'fooling around on that damn computer' )

As for the problem reading the text when planets and stars are displayed - try the Accent Grave (`) key. It should toggle Celestia's display and leave the text visible. I'll note that I have to make that more obvious to the user. Right now it is only mentioned in the ReadMe and the About section of the Guide.

Hmmm.... I just had an idea (for me that's a big deal ). What would you think of an option that allowed to Guide to save the commands used in a demonstration as a separate celx script, so the user could examine it in more detail?

Oh, and thank you Alpha1us for making that link available.

cpotting wrote:Thanks for the encourging words, Bob. And, yes, it was a lot of work; just over a year 's worth (mainly because my fiancee thinks of this as 'fooling around on that damn computer' )

Yes, I hear the same thing from my beloved.

cpotting wrote:As for the problem reading the text when planets and stars are displayed - try the Accent Grave (`) key.

Sorry... My fault. I read about half of the readme and then just had to go
see what it actually did. This really is a very nice way to explore CELX
though. I've been playing with it since I installed it. Entertaining in itself!

cpotting wrote:What would you think of an option that allowed to Guide to save the commands used in a demonstration as a separate celx script, so the user could examine it in more detail?

Is this a trick question? Of course I'd like that option. Hell, you might
start a revolution in new CELX scripting tours.

Again, thanks very much for your efforts here. You've taken a
very (to me) oblique topic, and provided an easy way to understand
and use CELX.

Take care.

I have put it to the ML catalog now:

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_addon_details.php?addon_id=836

Adirondack