Many thanks for the Charon info.

The colours thing sometimes happens when changing levels (I never
have 'colour stars' checked) When all the stars have turned some wild
colour, going in star display and just clicking OK turns 'em white
again. This happened in Guide7 also, but only after I installed it to
my hard drive. I dont know if its Guide on HD related or A2.0 related
because I installed A2.0 and Guide to HD at the same time.Its really
not a big deal, actually it reminds me to take care to report the
right photometric band:-)
Matt


In guide-user@y..., Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:

> Wups! Forgot to mention:
>
> Matt, about the missing Alt-C link to Charon: try editing

HOTKEY.DAT

> and looking for the Alt-C line, and changing it to read
>
> Alt-C A 46 2344 A 67 2355 *
>
> The meaning of all this (and a more general discussion of how to
> change hotkeys) is at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/hotkeys.htm
>
> However, you may wish to just wait a day or two, when it will

be

> possible to reset hotkeys from within Guide. A clip from the text
> describing the next update:
>
> ----------- Clip from Web site ------------
> (?? Mar 2002) Ability to reset hotkeys:
> It has long been possible for sufficiently devoted people to reset
> the hotkeys in Guide by editing a text file (click here for
> details). This is user-abusive enough that I doubt many people
> have done it.
>
> In the current version, there is a new "Choose Hotkey" button in
> the Settings... Toolbar dialog. By default, it is grayed out.
> Click on a function in the list in that dialog, and the button
> shows the hotkey currently associated with that function (or a
> non-grayed-out "Choose Hotkey" if none is associated with it.)
> Click on the button, and Guide brings up a list of possible
> hotkeys (and their current functions). Choose one of those
> hotkeys, and Guide will thenceforth perform that action when that
> hotkey is pressed.
> ----------- Clip from Web site ------------
>
> About the odd A2.0 star colors: this is quite odd... do they
> return to white if the "Color Stars" option is not checked in the
> Star Display dialog? While the poor photometry in A2.0 leads to
> odd colors (bluer-than-blue and redder-than-red stars), they should
> at least show up in "normal" spectral colors.
>
> Switching the video mode may help. Some people have reported
> weird cases where, in 256-color modes, Windows couldn't find a
> "good" color and chose the nearest (sometimes not too near)
> approximation. I've also heard of such things happening in 16-bit
> color modes, which makes no sense to me at all.
>
> -- Bill