[Kstars-devel] Menu Support for HA Rey Constellations

[Jason Harris]

Sounds great.  I basically agree with this approach, go for it :)

James Bowlin wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2005 12:31 am, Jason Harris wrote:
> 
>>Perhaps we can find a way to uniquely identify stars, even if they are
>>unnamed.  I think this would be a better solution than making up new
>>star names :)
> 
> 
> Perhaps the thing to do is have "hidden" names.  For example, names
> that start with a special character (that is not used in any valid name) 
> won't get displayed as names.  I guess one choice might be to have names 
> that start with "." be hidden.
> 
> I think this would be pretty easy to implement.  In fact, I think
> I will just do it, if you don't mind.  I think ".a", ".b", ".c",
> would be clear.  But since they will be hidden, it won't really
> matter what names are used after the dot.
> 
> For the Windows folks, we could have hidden star names start with 
> $sys$.  :)
> 
> The hidden names make debugging constellations trickier, but this
> is not a real problem because they can be unhidden (with a "!" instead
> of a ".", for example) while developing and then made hidden with a
> global search and replace.  If needed we could add a menu option to
> "show hidden star names" but I'd like to avoid that if possible because
> it will cause needless confusion.
>