Mantis - ISSUES

0000633: Option to make DSO symbols NOT filled doesn't work - only filled is possible

Option to make DSO symbols NOT filled doesn't work - only filled is possible.
The check box to fill the symbol with color doesn't have any effect since all symbols are filled all the time. This is especially problematic with open clusters since many are very large. The sky background in this case is a strange color that may cover a square degree in some cases. It is irritating, basically.

0000632: GNIS default DL directory

Default DL directory for GNIS data on Linux is ~/skychart/tmp/
This would be nice to be ~/skychart/gnis/ or similar to point importance of data.

0000631: Resolution insconsistency

When save configuration file with one display resolution and reopen CDC with larger, display is cropped. Possibly similar behavior when save with larger and open with smaller display resolution. Added screenshot.

0000622: Update for SAC Database

The SAC database is available meanwhile in Version 8.1.

I think it is important to use this version, because in its change log it says this about v7.5:

"Version 7.5 is a release that taught me quite a bit about using

Excel as a database manager. It seemed to me that if you insert

a group of three objects, that Excel would create three rows for

the program so that the insert operation would not overwrite

prefectly good data.

Not So! In short, don't use version 7.5."

0000559: 3C 273 coordinates

When I look for 3C 273 (via search function), Skycharts returns an object at J2000 RA: 12h29m06.0s DE:+02°06'00" - note that there isn't any object corrispondence in the DSS survey. Actually, 3UC 185-112408 from the UCAC3 catalog is a very good match for 3C 273 at J2000 RA: 12h29m06.696s DE:+02°03'08.60" and it fits, indeed, with the image of 3C 273 in the DSS.

I wish you a happy new year.

0000627: Build process fails

- CDC SVN 1349
- FPC 2.4.0 (no sources, just binary installation) on Linux, GTK2
- Lazarus SVN 26528

Build problem:

1. Clean bigide environment
2. Installation of components and rebuild Lazarus
3. Open cdc.lpi and started compilation

Following error popup:
pu_main.pas(743,15) Fatal: Can't find unit gtkproc used by pu_main

0000624: Planets in the "Neighbour"-list

The "Neighbour"-list from the Details dialog contains every planet on the chart, regardless from their distance to the selected object.

0000623: Missing labels for Globular Clusters

There are no labels displayed for the most globular clusters from the GCM catalog.

0000620: Close dialogs with Enter and Esc

I think, it should be possible for more dialogs to close them with Enter (OK) and Escape (Cancel). The dialogs where I miss this function are:
- "New label" and "Edit label"
- "Date/Time", "Observatory" and "Catalog" configuration dialogs as well as the configuration dialog for all options
- View->Position
- the printer setup

0000603: Diplay-mode "photographic" for stars not possible; menue issues

Hello,
in skychart_3.1-1340_i386.deb it is not possible for me to choose the "photographic" display for stars in the settings dialog. "Parametric" and "line" mode are possible to choose from.

In the menue of skychart, I have some "&"-signs before the menue-item is written, for example "&File", "&Edit" and "&Display". I have a german system language.

Nevertheless thank you very much for skychart!
Michael

0000493: commandes serveur CENTRECURSOR.... résultat incorrect .

Hello Patrick

Thanks for correcting the problem of accented characters in return for the CDC server everything is in order.

I wanted to use the following commands:
CENTRECURSOR right click> Center
ZOOM+MOVE Right click> Center and Zoom +
ZOOM-MOVE Right Click> Zoom and Focus --

They do not center the map (last selection). I am doing a "redraw" then.
Orders MOVEEAST, MOVEWEST, MOVENORTH, MOVESOUTH are OK.

Not urgent!

Thanks for everything

Pierre de Nice

0000490: Wrong moved labels in simulation objects

When the labels of a simulated object are moved, and then the chart is printed OR the edit labels button is turned off, all labels are changed to the first label of the simulation (both in the printed and on the screen).

0000485: Celestial equator line

It would be good to also have this helping line available along the others. It helps finding a good star in the south for polar alignment when using programs such as PolarAlignMax and WCS.

0000482: We can't unset the display of equatorial grid in RA-Dec coord system when this is set in Alt-Az coord system display

A funny one, that exists in all previous versions. Someone (sorry, forgot your name) yesterday mentioned a bug that reminded me of this one. See the "steps to reproduce" for the details.

Also, maybe it can be useful to have the possibility to add Alt-Az grid to a chart displayed in RA-Dec coordinates system.

0000473: Some stars dissapear when I click for more stars

This took long to find out. I saw it happen every now and then. It was hard to reproduce, simply because I didn't exactly know what

happened. The bug exists in many versions. It exists in Windows and Linux as wel. Only the stars seem to suffer from this, the bug

doesn't affect the display of deep sky objects.

Taking the future use of the USNO-B catalog in consideration, it might be a good idea to set the upper limit to magnitude 22.

0000471: Extra onnline DSS servers

0000464: Missing non-checked chekboxes when starting Skychart

Hi,
this is new bug in development version. There are checkbox missing for all the options that are not selected:
Chart | Chart Coordinate System
Chart | Grid
Chart | Object

But after option is selected and deselected checkbox is dislpayed.

But it is working fine in View | Tool Bar.
Regards

0000452: Missing checkbox View | Sky Background Color

Hi,
View | Sky Background Color missing checkox in menu.
Regards

0000451: Keyboard shortcuts

Hi,
it would be nice to have keyboard shortcuts. I prefer to use keyboard instead of mouse whenever possible.

So it would be nice to have new keyboard shortcuts:
File | New --> +N
File | Open --> +O
File | Save As --> +S
File | Close Chart --> +W
File | Pring --> +P
File | Exit --> +Q (as quit)
Edit | Undo --> +Z

This is not very important, you can implement this after 3.0.1.6 release or even after 3.2.
Regards

0000450: Implement keyboard shortcut to accept new translation

Hi,
when translating SkyChart using Lokalize on Linux it would be nice to have (new feature) some keyboard shortcut to reload language files in SkyChart. You see when translating from time to time I would like to see what is still not translated in SkyChart.

Now I have to:
Settings | All settings options | System | Langauge | select any language from drop down menu and then do the same thing for my language.

Regards

0000432: Ctrl-Tab key for switching between charts

It would be natural if Ctrl-Tab could be used to switch between chart windows.

By convention the Ctrl-Tab key combination is normally used in Windows to switch between sub-windows within the same program.

0000424: lost object figures

Hi,

I allways had the nebula figures in my CCDs. For example: the horsead figure showed when I searched for IC434. The same for Rosette nebula and so on. Now I have it no more. The only thing I changed (I thing) was a new galaxie catalogue.
I really liked the figure of objects because I make astrophotography and it is important to see the figure to correct the orientation of the camera.
Hope you help me,

paulo

0000534: Does not recognize the existence of my printer.

I have an Epson cx6000 printer/scanner that has been working with linux for a while. Other programs recognize that it is the default printer and use it. Skychart 3.0.1.6 recognizes and uses it under windows (in Virtualbox) on the same computer. When I try to print a chart under linux, it tries to write to a file and refuses to recognize that the printer exists. It is the default printer under cups.

John

0000420: Occassionally CdC decides to continually automatically update

Even with the setting "auto-refresh" off, CdC will act like "auto-refresh" is on resulting in sluggish behaviour as it regularly updates at much less than the specified 60s auto-refresh default (or any other number that is attempted) - seems to refresh every 2 seconds or so. Once this has started there appears to be no way to turn this behaviour off short of exiting CdC and re-launching the application.

0000477: all sky view rotates when you add or remove stars

all sky rotates when you add or remove stars.