[APBeta] AP V2 question

[Jeff Young]

Peter --

I've used a couple of different ways to do that, depending on my humor:

1) Right click the object, select the sub menu with the object's name, and select "Force Highlighted".  Then go in to Ojbect List Preferences and make sure "Group highlighted objects at top after sorting" is on.

2) Add a user column (say, "Mark"), type a 1 in that column for each object you want to mark, and then sort on that column.

The first one is easier if I change the sub-group often (as there's a "Remove All Forced Highlighting" command in the menu, and there's no out-of-the-box way to zero a user column on multiple objects).

The second is easier if I change between whole-group and sub-group often (as I don't have to keep going in and out of Object List Preferences).

Which brings me to an enhancement request:

If "Forced Highlighting" and "Highlighting" were added to the list of columns in the Sort Objects dialog popups, then the "Group at top" option could be removed from the Object List Preferences dialog, and users would be able to create named Sorts that included or didn't include grouping of highlighted objects (as well as using highlighting to sub-sort after, say, visiblity or altitude).

-- Jeff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of
> Peter B
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:26 AM
> To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net
> Subject: [APBeta] AP V2 question
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> V2 is really working well for me including telescope
> control using ASCOM - keep up the great work.
> 
> I had a thought a couple of nights ago while imaging
> using APV2b33 as my scope control.  I have prepared an
> AP list with 500 NGC galaxies that look interesting
> and use this to decide what to image each night (when
> the clouds behave).  The list includes objects visible
> all year round so I sort the list each night on three
> parameters - Visible, Size, Mag.  I then scroll down
> the list of objects until I find one that I like using
> the DSS images to decide.
> 
> I was wondering if it was possible to add a way of
> marking multiple objects as I scroll down the list to
> narrow my list of potential objects and then re-review
> this smaller group of objects by sorting on marked
> objects - or is there already a way to do this?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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