Hi,


I use Guide 8 version 2005.02.23 on a laptop with an ATI IGP 340M graphical
card. Blue constellations lines are drawn even over the brown colored
ground.

All the celestial objects are also "visible" under the horizon. I don't very
much like this. Perhaps an improvement would be to have an option to switch
on/off the display of the sky under the horizon ?

To make some tests I tried to toggle the lines one/off.
In [Overlays] [Toggle overlays on/off...] I double-clicked on [Constellation
lines], changed an option and clicked [OK] to close this dialog box.
To close the first one, I also clicked [OK] but then I was surprised to
reenter in the second one. I had to use the "Cancel" button.

Now I know that the sentence "Chose overlay to toggle" and the buttons'
labels ("[OK]" and "[Cancel]") were somewhat misleading in my mind. I think
that "Choose overlay to modify", "[Modify]" and "[OK]" would better describe
the behaviour.


Laurent Zimmermann

----- Original Message -----
From: "toadatrix" <jsnyder@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:53 AM
Subject: [guide-user] Constellation Lines and Ground


> When I originally got Guide8 many months ago I had it installed on my
> Sony laptop. On that machine I selected the options to show
> constellation figure lines (not constellation borders) and also to
> show the brown colored ground. On that machine I never saw
> constellation figure lines drawn for constellations, or parts
> thereof,
> that were below the horizion; I only saw the brown ground and few
> stars below the horizon. Some months ago I uninstalled Guide8 from
> my
> old Sony laptop and sold that old machine. I then installed Guide8
> on
> my new Alienware desktop. All my settings are the same as on the old
> Sony laptop, but now Guide8 is drawing constellation figure lines
> over
> the brown ground region that is below the horizon. I may have
> updated
> Guide8 from Bill's website somewhere along the way so perhaps its not
> really comparing apples to apples. Anyway, is there a way with the
> latest Guide8 to show constellation figure lines and the brown
> colored
> ground below the horizon, but still NOT have Guide8 draw any
> constellation figure lines that extend over the ground area below the
> horizon? Did Guide8's teatment of this change somewhere along the
> way
> or is there a setting I don't fully understand? Thanks.