Re: Crashes with Jupiter displayed

skyview32000 May 26, 2008

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:

Hi Bill:

Jupiter L4, symbol shown and all OK, but click more info there's a
crash and the cursor shows the CPU working (instead of arrow it's a
little rotating circle).

M,V,M,S,U,N, L.13 planets shown and info displays data.

P, L 18, body shown and info displays data.

Jupiter would seem to be the culprit.

Does Startup.mar keep a record of all crashes or just the crash from
the last run of the program. I didn't know what Startup.mar was for.
I wonder if I may have used and exited Guide without a crash before
sending the file. If this is the case just give the word and I'll
resend the file.

Regards,

Richard

>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I got your 'startup.mar' file. Unfortunately, I still
> don't see any crash, and haven't spotted anything in your
> settings that gives me a clue as to what's going on here.
> So... a couple of other things to try.
>
> Display of Jupiter is indeed different from display of
> the moon, in a few respects. One is that Jupiter has to
> be adjusted for the wandering Great Red Spot, and I've
> recently made changes to that part of Guide. So that's a
> decent candidate to be causing the problem.
>
> If you right-click on Jupiter and ask for 'more info',
> it should tell you that the "GRS longitude" is around
> longitude 122.9 degrees. If it crashes on 'more info',
> that would be a strong clue: it would suggests that
> Guide crashes whenever it has to compute the GRS
> location. If it shows some weird longitude, that may
> also be a clue.
>
> Also: could you try zooming in on some other planets?
> If it crashes on those, that would suggest I'm barking
> up the wrong tree.
>
> Anyone else seeing this problem?
>
> -- Bill
>