Hey Aleksey!<br clear="all"><br> I'll maintain communication using the mailing list for sure. <br><br>Regarding the observation logs, currently we have a feature which lets us save a plain text entry for named objects (accessed by right clicking -> logs). So if you wish to store what you saw while observing, say Saturn, you'll have to explicitly state all information like the equipment you've used, date, time etc which is already available to KStars.<br>
I plan to replace this view with a new interface linked with a database.<br>Hence, when you right click and select Logs in the proposed implementation, you'll get a list of all previous entries. And the option to add new entries. And to export these entries (as OAL files, hopefully)<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Aleksey Khudyakov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Rishab Arora <<a href="mailto:ra.rishab@gmail.com">ra.rishab@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello everyone! :)<br>
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> a. building a log viewer which will enable users to 'store' observation logs<br>
> in an internal database<br>
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</div>Could you elaborate this, In particular what are observation logs and how do<br>
you plan to store them? There are some feature which is vaguely simalar,<br>
although it doesn't seem to be very usable.<br>
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> b. improving the way data files handled, specifically the parsing of text<br>
> files. I'll be making it more robust and extensible.<br>
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</div>Yes. Currently text files are parsed in very ad hoc way. We had few crash<br>
bugs because parsers didn't check for all cases. It will be useful by itself.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> Akarsh is my mentor for this project and I'm already getting a<br>
> glimpse of all the excitement (and lots of work! ) awaiting me. :) I'll be<br>
> blogging about the project and my experiences at blog.<br>
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</div>Please keep you email communication on the mailing list. Probably<br>
I and others will have something to say as well<br>
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