1.3.2pre1 crashes when I try to view orbits

[TERRIER]

I've just downloaded and installed 1.3.2 pre 1, and everything seemed to work fine until I tried to view the orbits of planets, moons, spacecraft and comets. Celestia then freezes and eventually crashes.
Anyone else with this problem ?

regards
TERRIER

[Detriment]

Just thought I'd confirm that same issue happening with my installation. It only happens when I activate spacecraft orbits, though - others seem to work correctly. Not sure what the difference would be with items categorized as spacecraft, but I've tried disabling all spacecraft related data, and same issue applies.

[don]

Same here, using XP Pro SP1 on Intel with ATI 9700 Pro graphics card.

[chris]

I just committed a fix for this bug to CVS. Thanks for the reports--they made it very easy to track down the source of the problem.

--Chris

[don]

You're welcome Chris. We're all glad to help out however we can.

Thank *you* for fixing it.

-Don G.

[Bob Hegwood]

Chris,

Just did the same thing on my Windows XP machine. Only problem occurred when I tried to display spacecraft orbits. My machine came unglued and I had to power off the system to get it back up and running again.

If there's a fix, where can we get it please? Is this a new version? i.e. - 1.3.2 Pre2?

Just thought I'd ask.

Thanks, Bob

[don]

Hi Bob,

Currently, this would be a CVS-available fix, where you download and compile the source code on your machine. All CVS code is normally available as a binary (.exe file) in the next "official" pre or final release of Celestia.

This is one BIG advantage that Unix/Linux users have over us Windows users -- their OSs come with good compilers, for free, so they can download and compile any time! That's nice.

Cheers,

-Don G.

[Bob Hegwood]

Okay,

Thanks for the info, Don. I didn't know that there was a difference.

Man... The things one can learn here. I'm getting a headache!

Take care, Bob