Hi folks,

There were a few questions a while back about toggling UCAC-4
stars and 'going to' them (i.e., the ability to enter something
like '4U314-15926' into Guide, and having it find that star.)
At the time, I thought I'd be able to post a fix quickly. It
turned out to take a bit longer than that, but I now have something
you may want to try out :

http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm

The only documented improvement is the ability to find UCAC4
stars. Essentially, if you have UCAC-4 set up so that Guide can
display it, you can use Go To... Object Name, and enter a designation
such as 4UC314-15926 or 4U314-15926, and Guide will find the correct
star.

There's another feature I've not gotten around to documenting yet,
because I'm not entirely happy with it. You'll see why when I try to
describe it. Any feature that's this tough to describe probably has
something wrong with it. Here goes :

If you go into Settings... Toolbar, you'll see a new option to
'Go to .TDF obj, prev selection' about a third of the way down the list.
About 80% of the way down the list are two new options: 'Toggle
prev user dataset' and 'Control prev user dataset'. As with any other
function, you can toggle these on, and/or assign hotkeys to them.

The idea is this. Suppose you have just used Extras... Toggle User
Datasets, and turned on WDS stars. Or you've used Go To... Go To
.TDF Object to locate a particular double star. Or suppose you have
right-clicked on a WDS star. Any of those actions would "select" a
particular user-added dataset, in this case the Washington Double Star
one.

Once you've done that, you can use 'Toggle prev user dataset' to
turn WDS stars on or off. If you want more control (over things such as
color, limiting magnitude, labelling, etc.), you would use 'Control
prev user dataset'. If you wanted to locate a particular WDS star, you
would use 'Go To .TDF object, previous selection'.

I added these because people sometimes find themselves working extensively
with a particular user-added dataset. At present, if you wanted to toggle
(say) UCAC-4 on or off, you'd have a lot of mouse clicks ahead of you:
Extras... Toggle User Datasets... Adjust Dataset... turn it on or off...
OK... Done. This does let you use just one mouse click on a toolbar button,
or one hotkey.

-- Bill