[Kstars-devel] H400 image update

[Jason Harris]

Sorry I'm a bit out of touch...I'm in the middle of a 4000 km drive to 
move my wife to Tucson :)

Anyway, it's easy to make a HotNewStuff package; it's just a tarball 
containing the data files you want to include.

Right now the code assumes the images are in PNG format.

If you want the images to appear in the skymap itself, you should name 
them according to the object name (all lowercase, and remove spaces). 
For example, "NGC 602" would have an image named "ngc602.png".

If you instead want the images to appear in the detail dialog, name them 
the same, except prepend "thumb-" to the name (e.g., "thumb-ngc602.png").

Note that for images in the map, they should be scaled down to a small 
dimension, and the background should be made transparent.  Early on in 
this discussion, someone (was it Luciano?) had some good ideas about how 
to automate the process of making smoothly blended transparent 
backgrounds.  Maybe check the mailing list archives for that message.

Before submitting your tarball to be published for all KStars users, you 
can test it by unpacking it into your $KDEHOME/share/apps/kstars 
directory.  After doing that, you should see your images in the program.

Good luck!  Can't wait to see them.

regards,
Jason


Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> On sabato 03 febbraio 2007, Glenn Becker wrote:
>> Luciano, et al.
>>
>>> Well, I think it's OK even if the collection isn't complete. Even as it
>>> is, it would triple the amount of "realistic" objects KStars can show, so
>>> go ahead and make an HotNewStuff package of what you have. You can always
>>> extend it later on, if suitable objects are found.
>> How do I do this? :^)
> 
> I've never done one myself... Jason should know, however.
> 
> You may start reading about it starting from here, however:
> 
> http://edu.kde.org/development/knewstuff.php
> 
> I have uploaded the updated images on my site, they are:
> 
> http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/kstars/m45.png
> 
> http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/kstars/m102.png
> 
> M45 has been rotated by pi/4 so that it is aligned with the star database;
> M102 has been rotated so that its main axis is now horizontal. I hope I've not 
> put it upside down.
> 
> Luciano
>