Celestia 1.7.0 Development Thread

[onetwothree]

"C:\CELESTIA\Celestia-1.7.0-Delta\celestia-win.exe" –fullscreen

it should be --fullscreen (with 2 minuses).

[Goofy]

Hi onetwothree.
You are right, it's needed a double minus, and I knew it, but I gave a quick look to the command line and it looked me as a double minus, but it was not.
Now it works, sorry, my fault, I apologize.
Goofy

[onetwothree]

Please check qt build from https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/actions/runs/1039688255 . This pull request changes how qt interface looks in fullscreen mode: it was updated to hide menus and toolbars. I wonder if it correctly saves mode and starts in fullscreen.

[cartrite]

I can't build this on Windows because I don't have the disk space to install QT5 on Windows. It's only 200 gb and windows uses 60% of the drive. Anyhow with linux, it works as expected. I can shift to fulllscreen and the menus are hidden. I can quit with ctrl q and restart. It starts in fullscreen with menus hidden.

[Art Blos]

cartrite < Are you planning to create a 64-bit version of the installer?

[cartrite]

The one I posted should already be 64bit. I use a 64 bit compiler to build the windows interface.

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I think I see your confusion. The folder is called win32. Which as far as I know is misleading. I am using a 64 bit environment to build Celestia. It is a 64 bit application that gets installed with the installer.

[Art Blos]

I think I see your confusion. The folder is called win32. Which as far as I know is misleading. I am using a 64 bit environment to build Celestia. It is a 64 bit application that gets installed with the installer.

If we are talking about the same archive dated June 17, then yes. The default installation is in the folder Program Files (x86). And this is a clear bug.

Why is there no shortcut for the QT version?

[cartrite]

I think I see your confusion. The folder is called win32. Which as far as I know is misleading. I am using a 64 bit environment to build Celestia. It is a 64 bit application that gets installed with the installer.

If we are talking about the same archive dated June 17, then yes. The default installation is in the folder Program Files (x86). And this is a clear bug.

It does get installed in (x86), but so do a lot of other 64 bit apps. This is something with windows which is one of the reasons I don't even like using it. But it comes with every computer you buy. Unless you buy a MAC. I'm running a 64 bit computer and even Visual Studio, even though it's a 64 bit app, is installed in Program Files (x86).

Why is there no shortcut for the QT version?

Like I said above, as of now and until I buy another usb hard disk and format it to NTFS, I don't have the space to install QT5 on my windows hard drive. So there is no QT5 interface with the installer I provide. It is the windows interface only. I never tried to install the qt5 interface with an installer on any windows system. In the past, I always provided a windows installer that only installed the win32 interface. I used to build the qt5 interface on windows with older computers, but I never provided an installer for them to the community.

[Art Blos]

It does get installed in (x86), but so do a lot of other 64 bit apps. This is something with windows which is one of the reasons I don't even like using it. But it comes with every computer you buy. Unless you buy a MAC. I'm running a 64 bit computer and even Visual Studio, even though it's a 64 bit app, is installed in Program Files (x86).

The installer for version 1.6.2 itself determines what bit depth the operating system has and selects the standard folder ("Program Files (x86)" or "Program Files"). So the problem is not with Windows as such. Your installer simply does not have such functionality right now, and I ask you to add it when possible.

Like I said above, as of now and until I buy another usb hard disk and format it to NTFS, I don't have the space to install QT5 on my windows hard drive. So there is no QT5 interface with the installer I provide. It is the windows interface only. I never tried to install the qt5 interface with an installer on any windows system. In the past, I always provided a windows installer that only installed the win32 interface. I used to build the qt5 interface on windows with older computers, but I never provided an installer for them to the community.

It looks like you have less than 100 megabytes of disk space left.

[cartrite]

The qt5 library is measured in gb not mb. I got 40 gb left out of 200. So I got 20% left not 40%. I would need to install that to build Celestia qt5 libs. If need be, I'll download the 1.6.2 version, look at the installer script, and see what changes need to be made. If I can figure it out I will and make the changes. But it will probably not affect anything except what folder it gets installed. When running the installer, I'm pretty sure that I did provide an option to install Celestia where ever you want. I think I probably can make the Program Files folder the default ....... If that's your issue.

[Art Blos]

The qt5 library is measured in gb not mb. I got 40 gb left out of 200. I would need to install that to build Celestia qt5 libs. If need be, I'll download the 1.6.2 version, look at the installer script, and see what changes need to be made. If I can figure it out I will and make the changes. But it will probably not affect anything except what folder it gets installed. When running the installer, I'm pretty sure that I did provide an option to install Celestia where ever you want. I think I probably can make the Program Files folder the default ....... If that's your issue.

Okay, I think we understand each other. It would be very nice to see in the new installer the latest modifications from onetwothree, which made it possible to remove the QT menu in full screen mode.

[cartrite]

You obviously do not understand me. I DO NOT BUILD THE QT5 INTERFACE FOR WINDOWS. THAT CHANGE FOR THE QT5 INTERFACE WILL NOT AFFECT ANY INSTALLER I PROVIDE FOR THE WINDOWS INTERFACE. IT ONLY AFFECTS THE QT5 INTERFACE. I ONLY BUILD THAT INTERFACE ON LINUX AND I DO NOT PROVIDE A LINUX INSTALLER. ANYONE USING LINUX WILL HAVE TO WAIT OR LEARN HOW TO BUILD YOURSELF. Anyhow, Here is an installer that is exactly the same as the old one I provided before.

setup.exe

The difference is it has "PROGRAM FILES" as the default folder to install the application. To add, I don't see a full screen option in the windows interface. So..................................

Added after 18 minutes 10 seconds:
Sorry, this may make things more clear. I can debug some code, I can even write some code, but to try and figure out an interface as complicated as Celestia's "windows interface" is beyond me at the moment. I may possess the skills but do not have the hardware or software installed on the system I'm currently using. Some day soon MAYBE this situation will change.

[Art Blos]

cartrite < Ok, two more questions:
1) Why in the new installer (July 21) contain a "celestia" folder, which duplicates all catalogs, models and textures?
I noticed that the size of the archive increased dramatically.

2) Localization does not work, although all mo-files are in their places. What is the reason?

[cartrite]

It wasn't a fresh build and that folder was part of a former build that didn't get deleted. I'll have to rebuild it tonight after work. I didn't realize it was there. My bad.......

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I haven't got translations to work yet. Apparently I need a perl script to run and produce dll files for each translation. It was done for 1.6.2 but wasn't done for 1.7.0. That will be up to the development team.

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As far as translations go, I'm not the best one to work on this. Although all my relatives come from what was then Austria Hungary and now is the Ukraine, Germany, Czech Republic, and Hungary, I only speak English and a bit of German.

[cartrite]

I updated the installer. The folder mentioned above was removed.

[cartrite]

I can't build this on Windows because I don't have the disk space to install QT5 on Windows. It's only 200 gb and windows uses 60% of the drive. Anyhow with linux, it works as expected. I can shift to fulllscreen and the menus are hidden. I can quit with ctrl q and restart. It starts in fullscreen with menus hidden.

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[john71]

I have a question. Is it possible to integrate BlenderGIS into Celestia 1.8 or 2.0?

It is a fantastic addon for Blender, which can download terrain data from Google and other free data sources.

https://github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS/wiki

Celestia would be able to draw Earth terrains (even cities and buildings) with online data using BlenderGIS.

[onetwothree]

Everything is possible if we have enough human power.

[onetwothree]

windows users, please check if your UI is translated in the last builds. take an artifact from https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/actions/runs/1179098366 and put res_*.dll into locale subdirectory where your celestia is installed.

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I updated the installer. The folder mentioned above was removed.

Hi. Could you share the file?

[cartrite]

It should be in the link above.

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Posted on 20/07/2021, 22:09