[Barrykgerdes]

Hi

Some further issues have appeared in the 4747.zip patch, Thanks Andrew.

Please remember this patch is not necessarily devoid of bugs but please let me know what you find on this thread so that it can be passed on to the developers.

As I said before, the program is developed mainly on Linux but some is done on Mac and some on Windows. Platform dependancy problems crop up quite often and need to be fixed before official releases.

1.) The star catalogues have not been changed for quite some time so if you have already downloaded the large ones they can still be used. Place all the catalogues in the stars\default folder. Just make sure that the stars.ini folder calls all the files and by their correct name. Please note here that there is a problem with loading catalogues 7 and 8 in Windows XP. You can have either 7 or 8 but not both (unless you drop 6). This problem is not present in Vista.

2.)There is an odd effect with the zoom controls that I think only occurs with Windows. When you try to zoom in for the first time nothing happens till the screen is clicked on an object. This problem has only recently shown up and will be fixed as soon as possible. Subsequent zooms seem to work though.

3.) Telescope drivers are only available for Meade protocol and Celestron Nextstar. This covers most telescopes, drivers are still needed by other systems but we need a programmer with the system to prepare the driver. The ASCOM platform does have a link for Stellarium to allow the use of ASCOM drivers but it is maintained by the ASCOM group. Note also that the installation of the telescopecontrol module is not fully automatic yet. It requires the manual entry of the servers folder in your user area.

4.) It has been reported that the entry of a new location has not been permanently added to the user_locations.txt file. I am not sure what could have caused this as I added a new location to the list and it was certainly appended to the User_locations.txt in the documents_and_settings\<yourarea>\a pplicationdata\stellarium\data folder although it took a few seconds to do this and the program was locked during this time.

Barry