[Kstars-devel] KStars Scripts Archive

[Marc Wolf]

Hello,

Would it be easy to create a dcop function slewTo, so whatever script is used 
the telescope can move to this object? In this way a real life tour can be 
prepared.

Marc

On Thursday 30 September 2004 11:40, Jason Harris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 01:46 pm, Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I noticed today a news item on the KStars page about Jason's
> > presentation of KStars and Celestia :-)
> >
> > KStars now maintains a script archive for customized tours @
> > http://edu.kde.org/kstars/scripts/index.php
>
> Yes, thanks for mentioning it here; I meant to do that :)
> In preparing those scripts, some weaknesses in some of the DCOP
> functions became apparent, so I am motivated to make the scripting even
> better.
>
> > Do you think it would appropiate if we add a menu or submenu for such
> > tours bundled with KStars? The user should be able to add, remove
> > tours of course. I think this will be a very useful educational tool.
>
> I have also been thinking about something like this.  A user suggested a
> "Favorites" menu with entries for predefined settings.  Each one would
> be attached to a DCOP script.  A Favorite could be a full Tour/Demo, or
> it could simply set the geographic location, or point at a certain
> object, etc.
>
> Hopefully, we'll have time to develop this for 3.4, although it looks
> like another very short release cycle...
>
> > cheers,
> > Jasem
>
> regards,
> Jason

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Marc Wolf
marc at magevesa.demon.nl