Re: [Celestia-developers] Re: Choosing to load or not some extras?
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From: Fridger S. <fri...@de...> - 2006-02-22 20:09:03
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Harald Schmidt wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:29, Fridger Schrempp wrote: > >> Since CPU power and memory >> are finite, i.e. Celestia is unable to administrate and display our >> entire knowledge about the Universe AT ONCE ;-) , a convenient >> (GUI) data >> loader/unloader is urgently required. >> Since I don't know whether you still read regularly here, let me quote my earlier mail: > Here is the dialog as we have it in XEphem since > 10 years: > > http://www.shatters.net/~t00fri/images/XEphemloader2.jpg > > The 'files' menue on top lists ALL data files of XEphem and loads the > desired one upon clicking. The lower list allows to individually > unload the loaded files by clicking on the red 'delete'. You may also > display the file header for each loaded file (green header tag) > providing detailed info what the loaded catalog file contains! > > Bye Fridger We would want to at least extend such a scheme to include textures in the standard directories. That would require to backup solarsys.ssc before modifying it via the loader. Bye Fridger |