On 11/7/13, Georg Zotti <[email protected]> wrote: > [snipped] > If reading a JSON already works, transforming alt/az text lists to JSONs > should be simple enough for users. Which one is the best to use?
As the one who proposed that blueprint, I will be very happy if this gets implemented. As for the format: I've updated the link to the example file used in SkyChart: http://sourceforge.net/p/skychart/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/tools/data/horizon/horizon_Geneve.txt It would be very nice if the implementation of Stellarium is compatible with that format. It's not very hard to parse - you need to read a text file line by line, ignore every line beginning with a #, read lines that contain a pair of space-separated values and discard/warn about anything else. My original vision was to have the same file structure as the other landscape types, but with the landscape.ini containing a reference to the .txt file instead of a texture. Another possibility is to save the alt/az pairs directly into the landscape.ini file, for example using the "array" feature in QSettings: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtcore/qsettings.html#beginWriteArray Or we can have multiple implementations/input formats and detect which one is used in a particular landscape file. :) If you need help with the data input code, I can make a small program for creating/parsing such landcapes, similar to the location list editor. (I have problems with building/running Stellarium at the moment.) Regards, Bogdan Marinov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
