Hello,

> You can get in and out of geo mode by pressing the colon key
> (:). But I don't find a way to just get the map without some eclipse
> or day/night features showing. It would by nice to just get the map
> and impact craters, or whatever features there are TDFs for.
>
> Larry
>
> >You'd need to enter geo mode, which to my knowledge can only be
> >achieved by coaxing Guide to draw an eclipse map. Once there, you can
> >save a .mar file which you then can use to toggle geo mode on.
> >
> >In a perfect world there would be a simple menu item for this.

this question was asked by me and answered by Bill in Feb. 07:
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Hello Bill,

> "...But my question related to this topic isn't answered
> yet: Will be (or perhaps is) there a way to change to geomode
> without changing the time?"
>
> This is one of the "extra", not-normally-enabled functions
> at the end of the toolbar.dat file. It's at line 383 in that
> file. For comments on how to enable it, see
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/toolbar.htm#activating
>
> (a URL I mentioned before, when we talked about how to get
> some "extra" LX-200 functions going.) You should change that
> line to read:
>
> 2141 g!11.bmp Toggle geographic mode
>
> and move it among the top 300-odd lines, and increase the
> number of "active" options by one.

as usual (?!?) your program has already "built in" this function. Thanks a lot. It
works fine. And as a side effect it's interesting and of course educational to see
the different coloured bands of twllight now!

I only hadn't to increase the number of active options by one but by about 20.
And I think I will experiment a little bit more with "toolbar.dat". It seems to me that
moving lines to the end of the file will show me only the "wanted" entries to make
the list a little bit smaller. I always wished I could click on a corner of the opened
toolbar window to see more entries at once.
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Clear skies
Bernd


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