Bugs, fixes: display of asteroid occultations fails

Bill J Gray Apr 4, 2010

Hi Larry,

You're right; I'm getting that same problem. I added some code so
that if people clicked on 'show eclipse' when no eclipse would normally
be possible (say, if they clicked on two stars), Guide would default
to showing a solar eclipse. Turns out there were some side effects
I'd not thought through, such as doing this where eclipses _are_
possible, such as the asteroid-star case.

I think I've fixed this. I'll do some checking to make sure I've not
introduced still more unintended side effects.

Extracting 'new_tool.dat' shouldn't cause trouble. Guide will merge
this in with your existing toolbar, so you won't lose your current settings;
all that will happen is that when you go into Settings... Toolbar, more
toolbar buttons will be available to you. (I did this a while back. It
used to be that updated overwrote 'toolbar.dat', which was a Bad Idea;
people would carefully configure the toolbar to be exactly the way they
wanted it, only to have it demolished by the update.)

UnZIPping 'cd_data3.tdf' might cause some datasets you currently have
displayed to turn off, or change their colors or magnitude limits or such.
Not very likely, though, which is one reason I've not gone to similar
efforts to ensure that settings are retained for that file.

Neither file, though, will have any effect on the occultation path
display problem. The fix for that will have to wait until I post an
update. (Which will have to be soon; this is an important feature.)

-- Bill