Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-16 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Montag, den 16.11.2009, 00:37 +0100 schrieb Marc Santhoff: Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 15:14 -0600 schrieb Phil Hess: - Matt Shaffer dazappa.m...@gmail.com wrote: I understood his message to mean that he didn't want to use windows-only apps/code. I'm sure he'll port it to those

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-16 Thread Patrick Chevalley
Hi Terry, Because you could start 2.76 with the -f switch and it would start up viewing a specific object. That has not been implemented in the SkyChart 3.x as far as I know. I am skychart author :-) It is easy to add the -f switch to skychart v3 because the function are already implemented

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-16 Thread Patrick Chevalley
Oops! sorry, just noticed Databases/Messier.txt - do you have a script to create the mysql database ? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

[Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Terry A. Haimann
For what it is worth I have created a project on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/messier/) with my Astronomy Program. It is a basic Observing Planning and Logging Program. It is of course written in Lazarus (I converted it from Delphi) and got most of the Algorithyms from

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Phil Hess
Terry, I've found that generating reports as raw RTF and then viewing them with your user's word processor is a good cross-platform solution and lets you use the full power of RTF, which is supported by all word processors. Tools are here:

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread John
Terry A. Haimann wrote: For what it is worth I have created a project on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/messier/) with my Astronomy Program. It is a basic Observing Planning and Logging Program. It is of course written in Lazarus (I converted it from Delphi) and got most of the