In a message dated 2/15/2003 7:21:03 AM Central Standard Time,
guide-user@yahoogroups.com writes:

> > From: "ove_christensen <ove@...>" <ove@...>
>
> >I am using Guide7 to astronomy education at my school. Is is run
> >from the schools server on the school intranet.
> >The problem is, that if one person is using the program his data - or
> >should I call it settings - are often transmitted to others.
> >Presumably the program keeps a file for settings for the program
> >rather than a file of settings for each user.
>
> >Is there any fix?

Just a thought... Have you tried utilizing the "set mark" function?

This will store most of Guide's settings so you can bring them up at a later
date. I use it when I'm planning vacation or a visit to a dark sky site for
project work and want to switch over instantly to a new setup (location, star
magnitudes, time, stellar coordinate, screen display settings etc). The only
thing it *won't* do is store which extra user data sets you might have
displayed at that time but this is easily fixed by going to the "toggle user
data sets" function.

Users could maybe "set mark" with a name/date when finished for the day,
instantly come back to that particular setup display at a later date, then
just toggle whatever user dataset he wanted showing. You WOULD have to go in
and delete all of the extra "mark"s occasionally since they might tend to
build up quicker than you'd like.

(Which reminds me)... Bill ,
Guide now obediently saves a mark under whatever name I choose -- and I have
at times ended up with TWO marks with the same name. Would it be a
programming problem to have Guide check to see if a file/mark already exists
under that name then REPLACE it with the new one? (After politely asking if
you wish to do so, of course!)

Cheers,
Sandy McNamara (SandyMc456@...)
N 40d 26' N E 89d 13'


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