Re: [guide-user] Update posted

P. Clay Sherrod Aug 2, 2015

So we had a reported "bug" that resulted in the program crash when installed.
Has anyone successfully loaded this?

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Dr. Clay

Arkansas Sky Observatories
http://www.arksky.org/
ASO Petit Jean Mountain /MPC H41
ASO Petit Jean Mountain South /MPC H45
ASO West Conway /MPC H43
.......serving astronomy since 1971
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From: "Bill Gray pluto@... [guide-user]" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 10:20 AM
Subject: [guide-user] Update posted


> Hello all,
>
> I've fixed the issue mentioned by Enrico Pettarin : when you attempt
> to import orbital elements generated by Find_Orb, it should work correctly
> now. This should be true whether you generate "standard" or "alternative"
> format elements... essentially, just create orbital elements and let Guide
> figure them out. The update is, as usual, at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> Also, I am pretty sure that I've fixed the issue Christian Ambros
> mentioned. He sent me his overlay files, and they all looked good.
> However, I've gone through my overlay code and found and fixed some
> very ugly bugs, including one that I'm reasonably certain caused the
> crashes Christian reported... and which really should have caused crashes
> elsewhere. So I highly recommend getting this update.
>
> In the process of doing all this, I've also added some more error
> checking. In many places in Guide, I had set things up to give a
> reasonably informative error message; instead of just crashing, the
> program is supposed to say something such as
>
> 'marks.nam' not opened: Permission denied
>
> However, it turned out that the overlay code wasn't using that
> error checking. It now does. So if there are further bugs out there,
> they should at least be easier to find and fix now.
>
> -- Bill
>
>
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