[APBeta] The future of user images

[Jeff Young]

Paul --

It's actually a side-effect that causes the script not to work.  As I'm sifting through all the objects, if I find a planet, comet or the sun then I look to see if my solar_system.apd plan is open (so I can find the user images).  If not, I warn the user and allow them to either cancel or skip planetary images in the printed observing report.

Where the problem comes in is that I'm deep in the bowels of the script when I discover the plan isn't open, and so was using the following:

       raise new RuntimeException

to exit if the user cancels.

But I actually like the idea of observation attachments (all my images are sketches that go with a particular observation anyway) -- as long as there was some way to find any attachments from observations made from other plans so they could still be displayed in the DSS pane of the Planning tab.  (I think that's probably easier now that observations aren't really attached to plans anymore.)

Cheers,
-- Jeff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of
> Paul Rodman
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:38 PM
> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] The future of user images
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2008, at 03:40 , Jeff Young wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble converting one of my old scripts which is trying
> > to draw a user image (a sketch of a comet) on a canvas. (The problem
> > is that I can't target a comet by RA/Dec, and I'd rather not require
> > that a plan be open to target via the plan object.)
>
> Why doesn't the script work? I don't think (and I might've forgotten)
> I changed anything.
>
> > However, I'm wondering if I'm going about that wrong in V2 anyway.
> > Is the future direction that user images would be observation
> > attachments rather than go in the DSS image cache?  If so, is there
> > a way to draw those attachments easily onto a Canvas?
>
> I really need to rethink the DSS/User image thing. What I should do,
> is replicate the Observation attachments functionality for Objects.
> I'm unhappy about the current mish-mash.
>
> I'll think about it while I'm pulling invasive plants out of the local
> park this morning (one of the downsides of being married to the city's
> environmental volunteer coordinator).
>
> Paul R.
>
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