<div dir="ltr">Great work Akarsh! Why don't you create a git branch and work there freely until it is ready to merge back into master?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Akarsh Simha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akarshsimha@gmail.com" target="_blank">akarshsimha@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello<br>
<br>
The latest commits to master include a namespace called NameResolver,<br>
which contains methods to resolve a deep-sky object identifier using<br>
CDS Sesame (online resolver service). This namespace is added to the<br>
make list, so it gets built and linked, but it is not used in KStars<br>
at the moment -- so nothing should have been changed as far as the<br>
name resolver feature is concerned.<br>
<br>
However, the attached patch (which is definitely not ready to be<br>
checked into master) will let one test the name resolver by calling it<br>
from the Find Dialog. To test the resolver feature, after building,<br>
switch to Equatorial Coordinates and pause the simulation clock. Then<br>
fire up the Find Dialog, type in the name of an object unknown to<br>
KStars but known to Simbad/NED, and just hit enter even though no<br>
search results show up. Watch the console for messages.<br>
<br>
The difficult tasks ahead are to make sure that we cleanly store the<br>
object in KStars runtime memory, as well as commit it to the object<br>
database, so that there will be no bugs from a newly introduced<br>
object, ensuring that the object can be used in Alt vs. Time /<br>
Observation Planner / Ekos etc. seamlessly. Also UI improvements will<br>
be warranted.<br>
<br>
Please let me know if I need to fix anything in the existing code, and<br>
also if it conflicts with the goals of other concurrent projects<br>
(KStars Lite and Windows)<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Akarsh<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best Regards,<br>Jasem Mutlaq<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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