[Kstars-devel] Name Resolver test patch

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Great work Akarsh! Why don't you create a git branch and work there freely
until it is ready to merge back into master?

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> The latest commits to master include a namespace called NameResolver,
> which contains methods to resolve a deep-sky object identifier using
> CDS Sesame (online resolver service). This namespace is added to the
> make list, so it gets built and linked, but it is not used in KStars
> at the moment -- so nothing should have been changed as far as the
> name resolver feature is concerned.
>
> However, the attached patch (which is definitely not ready to be
> checked into master) will let one test the name resolver by calling it
> from the Find Dialog. To test the resolver feature, after building,
> switch to Equatorial Coordinates and pause the simulation clock. Then
> fire up the Find Dialog, type in the name of an object unknown to
> KStars but known to Simbad/NED, and just hit enter even though no
> search results show up. Watch the console for messages.
>
> The difficult tasks ahead are to make sure that we cleanly store the
> object in KStars runtime memory, as well as commit it to the object
> database, so that there will be no bugs from a newly introduced
> object, ensuring that the object can be used in Alt vs. Time /
> Observation Planner / Ekos etc. seamlessly. Also UI improvements will
> be warranted.
>
> Please let me know if I need to fix anything in the existing code, and
> also if it conflicts with the goals of other concurrent projects
> (KStars Lite and Windows)
>
> Regards
> Akarsh
>
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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq
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