Sounds perfect, Bill. Thanks for looking into that.

Sounds pretty much like what I am used to now - the majority of the
differences when I run two simultaneously are the thnigs you mention
like limiting magntude, area centered on screen, orientation, etc that
don't interfere with each other anyway. The 'last instance closed is
the settings you get when you start up next time' is understandable -
I deal with that now as well.

Would two separate installs take care of that problem (i.e. each
install would have it's own startup.mar?) It never occured to me to
try that until this conversation came up.

Thanks,

Tony


Quoting Bill J Gray <pluto@...>:

> Hi Larry, Anthony,
>
> I did a little bit of checking around in the code, and I think
> I'll be able to allow multiple instances more readily than I thought.
> In fact, with a couple of lines of code removed, it appears to
> work Just Fine, with a couple of caveats:
>
> If you do certain functions in one window (changing user-added
> datasets and downloading star catalog data or images, for example),
> they will get reflected in the other window the next time it's updated.
> Certain other functions (zooming in and out, changing limiting
> magnitude, and so on) won't be reflected in the other chart.
>
> The latter behavior is what we'd really want to have all the
> time. That way, you could configure each separately and get a
> totally different view.
>
> Also, each instance will write out a 'startup.mar' file when
> closed. So the last instance closed will be the one that determines
> where things are when you start up Guide again.
>
> I consider these to be minor annoyances, so I've removed the
> single-instance limitation. I've got a couple of other bugs to
> work on, but once things stabilize a bit, I'll post another
> "in-testing" update and notify the list.
>
> Thanks! -- Bill
>
>
>