[guide-user] Adding images

Jari Suomela Jan 8, 2000

Hello Bill and everybody,

I have a suggestion regarding a simplified method of putting images in
the chart background. Charon will allow one do this, of course, but I
think it's an unnecessary complicated way just to get ones image to
appear in the background.

The way I visualize this feature is as follows:

1) Clicking on the still hypothetical menu item "Add user image" will
open a standard open file dialog which lets you to choose the image
file. The image opens in a separate window on top of Guide.

2) On this image you identify a star by aligning the mouse cursor on it
and clicking. Guide would now ask you to identify the same star on the
chart. A minimum of two such pairs should suffice, but more would
certainly allow for a better fit.

3) Then hitting the "Add image to chart" button would let Guide
(Charon?) to do it's magic and the image would appear in the chart
background.

Simple, intuitive, and no-fuss, I think.

Jari
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