[APBeta] The future of user images

[Jeff Young]

Oh, one other thing: is it just me, or are scripts about 100 times faster in V2 than in V1?  I've had to take out a bunch of my StartProgress dialogs as they aren't visible long enough to read. ;)

-- 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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