Re: retrieving asteroid list

Bill J Gray Oct 16 10:08 AM

Hi Lawrence,

An alternative to Arild's method for recovering the asteroid
list: hit Alt-D. This is a general method of going right back
to _any_ previously-created "more info" or "table".

Arild, your point about being able to click on rise/set/transit
times in the "short info" dialog is well-taken. In general, I
like the idea of having most things in Guide behave in some vaguely
reasonable manner when clicked on; thus, you can do things such
as click on legend items to access various Guide functions, on
dates/times shown in "more info"/tables to set those dates/times,
on glossary items, and so on... to me, there's not much of a
down side to this; linking items to actions in this manner
doesn't clutter up the user interface, and often provides a
handy method for power users to access certain functions.

So, yes; it would be nice not only to click on the times
shown in "short info", but (in some cases) on other text to get
glossary definitions and so on. The current manner in which
"short info" is shown is not really very well-suited to this
sort of game. Ideally, I'd have planned it in from the beginning...
but to add it now might represent a lot of effort for not much gain.

-- Bill