[APBeta] re. multiple plans open

[Hilary Jones]

I don't think having one menu bar precludes having multiple telescopes open at the same time.  It's only a "small matter of programming" to have the menu controls know which window they should be applied to, and therefore which telescope is wanted.  On the other hand, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.  I can't imagine a situation where I would actually want to run two telescopes at the same time.  My poor little brain can barely keep one scope going!  In an emergency, if AstroPlanner didn't handle two scopes well, I could always run two instances of the program.

Hilary

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter B 
  To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net 
  Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:43 PM
  Subject: [APBeta] re. multiple plans open


  Paul,

  Regarding my question on thre multiple plans being open and what I thought was a splash screen, I now understand what you are trying to achieve in terms of a multi-document app.  I think the confusion comes from the fact that it looks like you have multiple instances of AP open when you open a second plan - unlike the way say Excel treats multiple documents open within the same window.

  The main thing I don't like about the AP approach is if you have the relescope connected then open a second plan the telescope is not connected in that plan.  Is it done this way to enable different plans to be connected to different telescopes concurrently?

  I think it would be less confusing if the plan was just a window within the main app - ie the dropdown menus and info bar were not repeated on every plan however I guess this would only allow one telescope connection at any time.

  Regards,

  Peter



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