[Kstars-devel] Compass directions and Kstars 2.0.0

[Rafał Kułaga]

Hi,

> After Jerome's post I tried other projections and, indeed, all other
> projections in the list seem to display compass directions correctly.
> My location is Helsinki, Finland, but that probably has little relevance
> in this case. It would look like the problem is in gnomonic projection
> code...

Strange thing is that I seem not to have this problem. Compass for
gnomonic projection works fine and all the markings are shown
correctly: NW, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W.

Cheers,
Rafal

2011/11/10 Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com>:
> Hi Rafal and Jerome,
>
> I can't really say about other distros because I've only got Kstars
> installed in Fedora. I seem to recall that this problem was there in
> Fedora 14, too, but not in earlier Fedora distros. That may be because
> somewhere along the line the default projection changed to gnomonic.
>
> After Jerome's post I tried other projections and, indeed, all other
> projections in the list seem to display compass directions correctly.
> My location is Helsinki, Finland, but that probably has little relevance
> in this case. It would look like the problem is in gnomonic projection
> code...
>
> BR, Antti
>
> to, 2011-11-10 kello 01:42 +0100, Rafał Kułaga kirjoitti:
>> Hi Antti,
>>
>> That's indeed strange. I've never observed such bug. Is this problem
>> specific to KStars version in Fedora 15 or have you experienced it
>> also with other versions (probably from other distros)? Could you
>> provide some details about your configuration of geo location in
>> KStars? This would be really helpful when I try to reproduce this bug.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rafal Kulaga
>>
>>
>> 2011/11/9 Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com>:
>> > Greetings list members,
>> >
>> > although I understand this list deals with finer points of Kstars
>> > development I'd like to know why Kstars 2.0.0 shows compass directions
>> > as it does in my Fedora 15 system:
>> > If I go a full circle clockwise starting from NE, I see the following
>> > markings just below the horizon line: NE, E, SE, S, NE, E, SE, S.
>> > The latter four obviously should be SW, W, NW, N.
>> > I'm writing here in the hope this flaw could be corrected without
>> > writing a formal bug report.
>> >
>> > In my opinion, Kstars is one of the finest programs ever written for
>> > computers.
>> >
>> > BR, Antti
>> >
>> >
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