[Kstars-devel] kdeedu/kstars/kstars

[Jason Harris]

Hi Pablo,

The angular distance tool is coming along nicely, good work!

On Friday 06 February 2004 09:00 am, Pablo de Vicente wrote:
> TODO:
>  - There are some errors when plotting the line. I do not know why
> yet, but the start point is offset by a small quantity from the
> clicked point. 
I also noticed that when the line is first drawn, it is drawn at the 
previous object's position, until the mouse is moved

> - I do not like the labels I have written in the 
> KSPopMenu class. I will try to fix that, or better, somebody speaking
> good english (Jason :-) ) writes some better labels
They sound fine to me! :)  But I'll think about it...

>  - Investigate if the line can flash or if another color is nicer.
I think we need to use a ColorScheme color, because the line is 
invisible in Sky Chart color mode.  I'd suggest using UserLabelColor, 
or adding another color to ColorScheme (which is really easy, just add 
three lines to the ColorScheme constructor, and add your new color to 
the existing .colors files).

>  - See if it is possible to avoid clicking first with the left button
> and then press CTRL+[. It would be easier to just do CTRL+[ and the
> position where the mouse is hovering on is read.
This is now possible with my transient labels commit.  You can get a 
pointer to the object under the mouse cursor with something like:

SkyObject *o = map()->objectNearest( map()->mousePoint() );

Note that this returs NULL if no nearby object is found, so check to 
make sure o exists before using it.  If you want CTRL+[ to work on 
empty sky, you can just use map()->mousePoint() in that case.

Two more suggestions:

It should be possible to cancel angle mode easily.  Probably with the 
Esc key?

Why not use simply "[" and "]" for the keystrokes?


regards,
Jason
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