Hello,


Several people sent messages to this list to support the idea that Guide should include a log book feature. After that, one could also ask for word processing or database features, and so on. In my opinion it is not the main purpose of a software like Guide, although it can be convenient. But the developper of Guide only has two hands and 24h a day and, under these conditions, I prefer that he spends time in developping purely astronomical features of Guide than in implementing a log book.

For example, in browsing my archive of messages, I have remarked that a problem pointed out by Roger Pickard (28.05.00) about the display of NSV data has not yet been resolved (wrong numbering of the NSV stars from NSV 10361). This kind of things shoud have the priority.

Instead of a log book, it could be more simple to be able to select and copy text from the more info / help window for use elsewhere (e.g. word processing).

Does somebody share this opinion ?


Sincerely,

Laurent Zimmermann
http://users.skynet.be/zmn/cab/cab.html

----- Original Message -----
From: Denis Boucher <boucherd@...>
To: Guide List <guide-user@egroups.com>
Sent: dimanche 25 juin 2000 20:05
Subject: [guide-user] Observer Log


> Bill,
>
> Have you ever consider including some basic observer log into Guide. I
> exclusively use Guide and found that having to constantly switch back and
> forth between programs is a pain. In my opinion, the best place would be in
> the selected object data, a log button in addition to the "more info" and
> "next"..... when selected it would take you to a basic obsever log page
> which possibly could include the selected object data, a place for log
> entry. It would be a nice feature to have. I look around and found many
> other astro programs offer such log feature but not the program qualities of
> Guide.
>
> Anyone else believe this would be of value.
>
> Denis Boucher
> denis.boucher@...
> Homepage: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/boucherd/main.htm