[Kstars-devel] Binary star data loading accomplished in Branch!

[James Bowlin]

On Mon June 2 2008, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> It looks like the branch version of KStars is able to load binary
> files fairly well.

This is really good news.  Congratulations!

> The bug is that stars close to the equator with -ve declinations are
> developing positive declinations and are off from their original
> positions by upto a degree. The differences seem to have no
> correlation whatsoever, but I'm yet to investigate on that.

This is very strange.  I have no idea what is going on.

> Another reason could be that these time tests were performed in a
> very coarse manner, where I started the two processes "together" (by
> putting one as sleep 10; ...branch.../kstars and the other as
> ..trunk.../kstars and then firing the second one ten seconds late).
> Probably somebody could do a more professional timing test which I
> don't know how to do.

There is timing code in skymapevents.cpp that you can copy.  It looks 
like this:

   QTime t;
   t.start();
   ... do something ...
   kDebug() << QString("Something took %1 ms").arg(t.elapsed());



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Peace, James