[Kstars-devel] kstars_gl: kdeedu/kstars/kstars

[Jason Harris]

CVS commit by harris: 

Introducing the kstars_gl branch, in which OpenGL support will be 
developed.  To checkout this branch, use "cvs co -r kstars_gl 
kdeedu/kstars".

I branched this from HEAD; the only differences at this point are in 
SkyPoint and SkyMap.  If you have OpenGL working, you can test it out.  
However, it is currently very rudimentary:  it displays 5000 bright stars, 
the coordinate grid, and the constellation lines, using Equatorial 
Coordinates.  You can slew the map with the arrow keys and zoom in/out 
with the +/- keys.  Note that FocusPoint is not currently defined, so the 
statusbar coordinates, and identification of objects with mouse clicks 
will not work properly.

SkyPoint:  Now has double X,Y,Z members and accessor methods.  Wherever 
the SkyPoint's position is changed, I have added "setXYZ()", which 
re-synchronizes the XYZ coordinates to the new RA/Dec coordinates.

The XYZ positions are not volumetric; that is, they do not take distance 
into account.  They are simply the XYZ coordinates on the suface of the 
celestial sphere.  I think doing volumetric XYZ is going to be 
complicated, because the size/brightness of objects will decrease with 
distance, and our magnitudes/sizes already take distance into account.  
Plus, for many objects, we do not know the distance.  These are solvable 
problems, of course.

SkyMap: I have replaced the paintEvent() function with its QGLWidget 
equivalent, paintGL().  In that function, we now call GL-equivalents of 
each of our draw functions.  Many of these have not yet been implemented, 
and remain commented out.

In addition, I have reimplemented the arrow-key and +/- key cases in 
SkyMap::keyPressEvent().

I welcome all interested parties to join me in developing this branch, 
either by commiting code or making suggestions on the list!

CCMAIL: kstars-devel at kde.org


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