Missing toolbar buttons

Bill J Gray Jul 28, 2003

Hi Edwin,

Just tried this... the "zoom in" button is a very obvious plus-sign
within a circle icon. The "zoom out" button is a non-intuitive
"1" icon. Exactly why that's so is a mystery to me, especially
since there is a perfectly good icon for this function. If you
edit the file 'toolbar.dat', you will find these lines about a
sixth of the way down the file:

# 2026 g!01.bmp Zoom out one level
# 2025 g!set_pl.bmp Zoom in one level

Change the first one to read

# 2026 g!set_mi.bmp Zoom out one level

and you'll get the correct button for this function. (You may have
spaces in place of the # signs.)

Incidentally, this will be fixed with the next update. You only need
dig into the 'toolbar.dat' file if you'd rather not wait for an update.

Quite a few functions in Guide have extremely non-intuitive
buttons (in part because it's hard to come up with a good button
expressing the concepts of, say, "create table of lunar
apogees and perigees" or "go to star via Bayer/Flamsteed
designation.") But in this case, there was a good button
available... I dunno why it didn't get used.

Thanks! -- Bill