[Kstars-devel] Refined patch for wishlist 178232: List all objects within a rectangle

[Khudyakov Alexey]

В сообщении от Среда 27 января 2010 00:37:08 Abhijit Apte написал:
> Hi,
> 
> I've now implemented the things which I mentioned in my previous mail (pl.
> apply the patch attached with this mail).
> 1) Multicolumnar display of objects selected in rectangle
> 2) To center a object selected from the list (done by double clicking on
> object list).
> 

Hi. Thanks a lot for your work.

This is not a review or anything like that just a quick glance at code and 
screenshots. I feel that adding new dialogs isn't really good idea. It put 
more burden on user. He have to remember more dialogs, he may be forced to 
jump between dialogs to accomplish task, forced to open multiple dialogs at 
once. 

Also details dialog have similar problem (to a degree). It allow to select 
only one object at once. However objects on the sky tend to overlap or to be 
very close together. Consider star in a nebula as example. Sometimes it's 
difficult to select right object. Probable solution is to allow user to chose 
from all object in some region. Say 10px in size. 

These tasks seem very closely related. Maybe they could be merged into same 
functionality. Comments are welcome.

Hopefully I'll be able to review patch and elaborate on matter above sometime 
at the weekends.