cspratt2001 Oct 2 8:45 AM
--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've just updated the Guide software on the Web site to fix three
> bugs.
>
> Dario is correct about the JPL ephemeris problem. This is a truly
> weird one: it looks to be the first time in a very long while that
> I've seen the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler make a mistake. It's
> hard for me to believe it, but it looks as if it happened... only
> good news is that I figured out a way around it, by turning off
> some optimizations.
>
> Larry, I've fixed that "fourth bitmap" problem for the moon.
> But with Guide 8, you don't need to use 'clem_bmp.exe'; all you
> need do is put the second Guide CD into the drive and use "Extras...
> Install to Hard Drive" to get the "lunar hi-res bitmap (86 MBytes)".
> (Not that it's a big deal. As long as you've gone ahead and used
> 'clem_bmp.exe', you might as well keep things that way. 'clem_bmp'
> was posted for Guide 7 users. The bitmap you got is the same; you
> just had a more awkward process to go through to get at it.)
>
> The third bug is one I heard about off-list: planets showed up
> correctly if you had the Inversion menu set to "normal" or "inverted",
> but they could appear quite dark (or totally black) if set to "mirror
> N/S" or "mirror E/W".
>
> And there's one really small improvement: the Toolbar dialog
> now has options to include "slew telescope" and "slew scope" toolbar
> buttons. You can also now reset the hotkeys associated with those
> functions. I got an inquiry from a gent who found that the Scope
> Pad was somewhat obtrusive, consuming valuable screen real estate;
> he wanted to leave the Scope Pad off, just controlling the scope
> via these two toolbar buttons (or hotkeys). You can now do that.
> (Be warned that the buttons show up as "22" and "23". I haven't
> created specific bitmaps for them yet.)
>
> -- Bill