Lua Edu Tools beta version

[ANDREA]

...I've made the changes you've suggested.
The list of elements in each class now can be set in 'config.lua'.

Cool!
And I agree, no more need to move the panel.
Very appreciated.
Bye and thank you, Vincent.

Andrea

[Vincent]

And I agree, no more need to move the panel.
Very appreciated.
Bye and thank you, Vincent.

The new window's transparancy & background color
are much better, no need to make its position moveble anymore

Thanks .

Ren?©, Andrea, you're welcome.
Great to read that everything works fine on your systems.

PS :Andrea, if you ever have one hour to give to the Italian translation, I would be really happy to help...

[ANDREA]

...PS :Andrea, if you ever have one hour to give to the Italian translation, I would be really happy to help...

OK Vincent, I'll try to translate the four files you say in your readme, i.e.:

readme.txt
locale/lang/lang.lua
locale/lang/infoText_lang.lua
locale/lang/images/compass_lang.png

Please confirm me that I didn't miss any, thank you.
Bye

Andrea

[Vincent]

OK Vincent, I'll try to translate the four files you say in your readme, i.e.:

readme.txt
locale/lang/lang.lua
locale/lang/infoText_lang.lua
locale/lang/images/compass_lang.png

Please confirm me that I didn't miss any, thank you.

That's it. And you even don't need to bother with compass_it.png since the letters are the same as in french. So, I'll simply make a copy of compass_fr.png
Thanks a lot Andrea, I really appreciate your contribution.

[ANDREA]

That's it. And you even don't need to bother with compass_it.png since the letters are the same as in french. So, I'll simply make a copy of compass_fr.png
Thanks a lot Andrea, I really appreciate your contribution.

Yes, now I see the png image with the right lettering, thank you.
And, obviously, you are welcome!
Bye

Andrea

[Sui Ota]

Sorry for absence for a long time...
I just downloaded the Tools and tried new feature with latest CVS.
This is great!

But I encountered some problems (even in original English mode ):
When I click "Set Render Option" button, most buttons except "Set Time" and "Current Time" disappear. The Objects (stars and planets, etc.) and star labels, too. So there remain only some buttons and time displays...
When I click the place where the button was or turn off Edu Tools, it recovers.

On iBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.4.9

[Vincent]

When I click "Set Render Option" button, most buttons except "Set Time" and "Current Time" disappear. The Objects (stars and planets, etc.) and star labels, too. So there remain only some buttons and time displays...
When I click the place where the button was or turn off Edu Tools, it recovers.

On iBook G4 with Mac OS X 10.4.9

Hi Sui,

ElChristou noticed a similar problem on Mac OS X, yet everything looks fine on other OS. I've already met Mac-specific issues with some Lua methods. Is there any message in the console ? That would help a lot to track the buggy method.

[ElChristou]

Sorry to be late Vince, I send you by mail a message error in console...

[Vincent]

Chris, Sui

I've just recompiled Celestia with Lua 5.0 instead of the latest Lua 5.1 version. And I can reproduce the bug you've both pointed out.

So, this is not a Mac-specific bug, but a bug in Lua 5.0.
It concerns the use of functions in tables, and has been fixed in Lua 5.1. It doesn't happen with the Windows build of Celestia 1.5 since it was compiled with Lua 5.1.

Since I can hardly change my code about the render setting window to make it run with Lua 5.0, I can just recommend you to compile Celestia with Lua 5.1...

Then, everything should work fine...

[Vincent]

OK, I've found a work-around.
The Render Option Setting window should also work with Lua 5.0 now...

http://vincent.gian.club.fr/celestia/Lua_Edu_Tools.zip

Please let me know if it's OK for everybody.

[Sui Ota]

Oh, I've been struggled for several hours to implement Lua 5.1(I'm not good at programming, so...).
The Render Option Setting window is shown correctly
Being able to see the window, I noticed that localization of "Open Clusters" is missing...

[ElChristou]

Work fine for me!

I'll have to investigate this Lua 5.1 topic under osX; seems our dev mens are on holydays...

[Vincent]

The Render Option Setting window is shown correctly
Being able to see the window, I noticed that localization of "Open Clusters" is missing...

You're right, I've added it. Thanks.

Work fine for me!

Great to see that everything works fine.
Thanks for your help, Chris.

[Vincent]

Hi,

As requested by Anders (tech2000) in another discussion, the country code can now be added to the language code when setting the language in config.lua.
http://vincent.gian.club.fr/celestia/Lua_Edu_Tools.zip

The 2 letters language codes are derived from the ISO 639 standard, and country codes are from ISO 3166.

The lists of codes for languages and countries are available here :
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-service ... t-en1.html

Here are some examples:

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-- French_France:
    language = "fr"

-- English_England:
    language = "en"

-- English_United States:
    language = "en_US"

-- Portuguese_Portugal:
    language = "pt"

-- Portuguese_Brazil:
    language = "pt_BR"

[tech2000]

Vincent,
why not (for a nice and clean order in the language directory) use this style instead:

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-- French_France:
    language = "fr_FR"

-- English_England:
    language = "en_EN"

-- English_United States:
    language = "en_US"

-- Portuguese:
    language = "pt_PT"

-- Portuguese_Brazil:
    language = "pt_BR"

Bye, Anders

[Vincent]

Anders,

I think we should keep the Lua localization coherent with the i18n convention on which Celestia's internal localization is based. In this convention, the country code is optional. A typical language identifier consists of a 2-letter language code from ISO 639 (3-letter codes can be used if no 2-letter code exists). The language identifier can have an optional subtag, typically for variations based on country (from ISO 3166 2-letter country codes).

Here's what the RFC 4646 (Tags for Identifying Languages) says:
( http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt )

2.1. Syntax
The language tag is composed of one or more parts, known as "subtags".
[...] A language tag consists of a "primary language" subtag and a (possibly empty) series of subsequent subtags, each of which refines or narrows the range of languages identified by the overall tag.

[Vincent]

Hi,

I've added an entry in the config file to give the possibility to automatically switch to 'Alt Azimuthal' mode when in Planetarium Mode.

I've also fixed a bug that prevented the observer's view to reach an elevation of 90?°.

[Vincent]

Hi,

The Tools now also include a Solar System Browser which classifies objects
according to their type. You can click the name of an object to select it:


Clicking the "+" button associated to an object refreshes the right part of the
Solar System window and displays the names of bodies that orbit this object:


To display back the whole Solar System, just click the name of the Star (Sol).

http://vincent.gian.club.fr/celestia/Lua_Edu_Tools.zip
Of course, feedback and suggestions are still welcome...

[Vincent]

I've replaced the up/down scrolling buttons with scrollbars:

[chris]

Really impressive UI work, Vincent!

--Chris