[APBeta] Observation attempted but not found

Paul Rodman paul at ilanga.com
Mon Jul 6 09:28:06 PDT 2009


On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:

> Well, what I would probably do is add another column to the  
> Telescope/Eyepiece/.../Rating list called "Observed" with a checkbox  
> in it (initially ON). Thus you'd be able to record that an object  
> was not observed with such-and-such a combination, but was observed  
> with, say, a shorter FL eyepiece. That would be relatively easy to  
> implement.
>
> What would be trickier would be to display # of observations to  
> include only those that have at least one "observed" entry.
>
> Let me ponder this.

I pondered and decided to see how difficult it would be. So here's the  
first cut:

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There's a new "Obs" checkbox column in the resource combinations list,  
defaulted to ON. If all combinations have Obs off, then the  
observation is shown in red in the Observations list*. I'm working on  
other places that would be affected by this change.

Paul R.

* perhaps another method would be better, particularly for colour- 
blind observers and night-vision mode. Suggestions?


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