Re: [guide-user] Test update posted

Fiaschi Apr 30, 2004

Displaying the PA on "quick info", for my application, is ok!

Thanks for the quick response.

Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
To: "glist" <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: [guide-user] Test update posted


> Hi folks,
>
> I've just posted yet another test update for Guide 8 at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> You may be sensing a pattern here: I've posted several such
> test updates, always expecting that they would become "for real,
> official" updates shortly thereafter, as soon as any bugs were
> found and fixed. As it turned out, I _did_ find and fix a few
> bugs each time. I also added some new feature or another that
> required further testing. This time, though, I have sworn off
> adding new features until the above version has been tested,
> debugged as needed, and made "official".
>
> It has a slew of very minor improvements, mostly based on
> things suggested on this list (for example, "Quick Info" now
> gives the parallactic angle... Marco, I hope that's okay;
> getting it into the legend would have been a bit of a pain.)
> Lawrence Harris' suggestion that getting MPC comet/asteroid
> data be made more straightforward is also now implemented and
> ready for testing.
>
> But the larger news is in a bug fix to scope control for
> encoder-based systems. Kevin Cooper described some problems
> he saw in this area, and found that the lat/lon written to
> the alignment data file was in radians instead of degrees.
> I think this happened often enough to account for a lot of
> strange scope control behavior I've heard of, including the
> "reversal" described by Ray Shapp. It was certainly _a_
> bug; I think it's likely to be _the_ bug, and now that it's
> gone, all should be well.
>
> Anyway, I hope you folks will download the above update,
> and let me know should you find bugs. I have some long overdue
> updates to post to some other programs, such as Find_Orb,
> Charon, MoonView, and Integrat; I expect to focus for a while
> on making "already written code" available, and will try to
> control my usual tendency to leap into writing still more code.
>
> -- Bill
>
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