Secondo I apology for my strange English. I hope you will understand me anyway.
I'm a (relatively) new user of Celestia and there are so much capacities in that program that a little help is welcome. For that the Educational Activities are perfect. They take us by hand so we can discover a lot of wonders.
But I encountered 2 problems (with Windows XP).
Here they are and I explain the way I used to by-pass them. I hope it may be useful to somebody.
- Problem #1
I have an error message mainly at the exit (but also sometime when running) of the program that say something like "Celestia has encountered a problem and must be closed". The reason is that I have a Creative Audigy sound card and it come installed with a file "openAl32.dll" in the "windows\system32" directory.
If this occurs, simply remove the file with the same name that resides in the "PROGRAM FILES\celestia151-ED" directory. Everything should be ok again.
- Problem #2
I have also the standard version of Celestia on my computer and I like that "cel:\URL" links, .cel and .celx scripts be associated with that version of the program. But when I want to play with the Educational Activities, it is properly not possible. So I searched how to associate easily either a version or the other.
It is usually simple with a right-click to open a file with the chosen program. But here, for the script files, the pop-up menu presents us "celestia" and... "celestia" as the two possible choices.
I think it would be possible to do something in the setup of celestia-ED to avoid this.
For the moment we can correct that by dealing with the registry of Windows.
Seek for the key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache]
and find the name:
"C:\Program Files\Celestia151-ED\celestia151-ED.exe"
When done change its data from "celestia" to "celestia151-ED"
This must be done only once. Then you have two distinct choices for the two versions.
But that doesn't give a solution to change easily the associations from a version to the other. The principle is the same but it is a bit more complicated because there are several keys to be changed.
To do that I use 2 files whose extension must be ".reg". Double clicking on them allow to reset associations (URL and scripts) with a version or with the other.
The first one associate Cel:\\URLs and scripts with the standard version of celestia v.1.5.1.
Copy this text and paste it in Notepad (with Ctrl-V), then save it as "cel-standard.reg"
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel]
@="URL:cel Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel\Shell]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel\Shell\open]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel\Shell\open\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Celestia\\celestia.exe\" --once --dir \"C:\\Program Files\\Celestia\" -u \"%1\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.celx]
@="celestia_script"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cel]
@="celestia_script"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.clx]
@="celestia_script"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.cel]
"Progid"="celestia_script"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.cel\OpenWithList]
"a"="celestia.exe"
"MRUList"="ab"
"b"="celestia151-ED.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.cel\OpenWithProgids]
"celestia_script"=hex(0):
"celestia151-ED_script"=hex(0):
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.celx]
"Progid"="celestia_script"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.celx\OpenWithList]
"a"="celestia.exe"
"MRUList"="ab"
"b"="celestia151-ED.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.celx\OpenWithProgids]
"celestia_script"=hex(0):
"celestia151-ED_script"=hex(0):
The second file allows the associations of URLs and scripts with the educational version (celestia151-ED.exe) of the program. It will be saved as "cel-edu.reg" after a "copy and paste" of this text:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel]
@="URL:cel Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel\Shell]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel\Shell\open]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cel\Shell\open\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\celestia151-ED\\celestia151-ED.exe\" --once --dir \"C:\\Program Files\\celestia151-ED\" -u \"%1\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.celx]
@="celestia151-ED_script"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cel]
@="celestia151-ED_script"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.clx]
@="celestia151-ED_script"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.cel]
"Progid"="celestia151-ED_script"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.cel\OpenWithList]
"a"="celestia.exe"
"MRUList"="ab"
"b"="celestia151-ED.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.cel\OpenWithProgids]
"celestia_script"=hex(0):
"celestia151-ED_script"=hex(0):
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.celx]
"Progid"="celestia151-ED_script"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.celx\OpenWithList]
"a"="celestia.exe"
"MRUList"="ab"
"b"="celestia151-ED.exe"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.celx\OpenWithProgids]
"celestia_script"=hex(0):
"celestia151-ED_script"=hex(0):
Switching from an environment to the other is now quite simple: double-click on one of these files, accept the warning and that's all!
Last thing (and I have not solution for that): the render options set by a version are kept by the other.
I hope that all these minor problems will disappear in the next versions of celestia-ED..reg ards
jogad
