[APBeta] AP V2 question

[Paul Rodman]

On Apr 17, 2009, at 05:03 AM, Jeff Young wrote:

> 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).

Not strictly true. I would create a boolean user field by right- 
clicking the user field list and using Edit User-defined fields...:

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Then when I was selecting objects I would click on the check box in  
the user field list to select/unselect. You can include this column in  
your object list (Edit->Columns) and sort on it, etc.

You can reset all values by selecting the user field in the list,  
right clicking, and and using "Delete All xxx Values", where xxx is  
your column name.

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Just trying this has suggested some convenience tweaks to me :^).

> 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).

I like it. Might be tricky to implement, but then again it might turn  
out to be trivial.

Paul R.

>
>
> -- 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