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

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 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" 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 systems, a

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Terry A. Haimann
John wrote: 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 m

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

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 15:14 -0600 schrieb Phil Hess: > - "Matt Shaffer" 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 systems, and > > if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yours

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread JoshyFun
Hello Lazarus-List, Sunday, November 15, 2009, 10:14:28 PM, you wrote: PH> Exactly. If there were an RTF equivalent for Excel files, that might be a good choice. Maybe fpspreadsheet ? Excel and ODS. http://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lazarus-ccr/components/fpspreadsheet/ -- Best r

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Terry A. Haimann
Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, 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

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, 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 Delp

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Phil Hess
- "Matt Shaffer" 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 systems, and > if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself > ;). > > > I think a useful format for reports would be an im

Re: [Lazarus] Astronomy Software

2009-11-15 Thread Matt Shaffer
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 systems, and if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself ;). I think a useful format for reports would be an image or an excel file, but working with excel f

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: http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/XDev/XDevStatus.html#

[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 "Practi