Hi folks,
Just posted a slightly revised 'test' version, still described at
and downloadable from
http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
The list of "improvements" has three new members: the ability
to use SDP4, an alternative (somewhat better) motion model for
high-orbiting satellites; ability to link to SIMBAD data for some
stars; and a fix for the .AVI problem mentioned by Jeff Medkeff.
(This last was due to a blunder I'd made in importing some source
code... I didn't really understand what the code was doing, and
therefore hadn't looked it over carefully enough. The color problems
that I'd thought were compression artifacts were, in fact, due to
the code being throttled down to 8-bit color images. Changing
this to 32 bits made them a _lot_ better.)
Assorted bugs mentioned on this list over the last few days
are now repaired. There's still one odd one out there, though:
I got a report via private e-mail of extremely oversized tooltip
windows. Aside from that, things are looking better than they
did a few days ago.
-- Bill