Re: [guide-user] Missing toolbar buttons

Ned Smith Jul 28, 2003

Sorry to pepper you with e-mail. I went to edit toolbar.dat and found that
item 2026 had no code next to it. I added the code you suggested and the
button appeared. Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:37 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Missing toolbar buttons


> 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
>
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