On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Kevin Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently been thinking about developing a plugin which shows the > locations of known pulsars in Stellarium. However, when researching how to > go about doing this, I found that the Stellarium features page for version > 0.10.0 has the following under "Extensibility Through Plugins": > > A pulsar catalog with audio clips - hear the cosmos' most accurate clocks > ticking! > > However, I have not found any links to this plugin, nor have I been able to > find it through web searches. > > Could somebody give me information about how to get this plugin?
I suppose that you are talking about this page: http://www.stellarium.org/features_in_0.10.0.php The text before the list indicates that these are ideas or suggestions for plug-ins: "If you are a developer and want to have a go at writing some cool plugins, feel free to post to the developer mailing list with ideas. Here are a few more unique ones which might inspire you:" So no, no such plug-in exists, it was just an idea. Alexander Wolf recently did something similar - a plug-in that displays historical supernovae: https://code.launchpad.net/~alexwolf/stellarium/sne Your idea will need something of the same - a custom catalog and a way of displaying it. The consensus for now is to use JSON for the catalog - this is what the Satellites plug-in uses and Stellarium has a JSON parser class. For the display part, your plug-in will have to paint on the star field as the other modules do. (As an aside, this suggests that what Stellarium needs is some generalized way of displaying custom-defined object catalogs. Such an infrastructure will also enable other features such as user bookmarks. There was also a request about KML support some time ago.) Regards, Bogdan Marinov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
