[APBeta] Scripting question

[Michael Portuesi]

Paul,

Thanks for the info.  The reason why I'm asking is that I'm working on  
the long-awaited (from me, anyway) Print Finder Charts 2.0 script, and  
I'm noticing some significant differences between the output of charts  
under 1.x and 2.x.   Mainly, the size of the plotted stars under 2.x  
is so huge on some of the charts as to make them unworkable.

I'm trying to figure out what I can do from my end to tune the chart  
rendering.  If you're curious, I can take this discussion offline and  
send you an example.

Thanks,
m.


On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

>
> On Jun 14, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Michael Portuesi wrote:
>
>> I can answer my previous question, and it isn't what I'm looking  
>> for at the moment.
>>
>> Instead, could you tell me what is the difference between the  
>> following two calls on Canvas:
>>
>> Sub FOVStarLimits(minmag as double, maxmag as double)
>>
>> and
>>
>> Sub FOVMagnitudeLimits(stars as double, starlabels as double, dsos  
>> as double, dsolabels as double)
>>
>> as they pertain to the rendering of stars?   How do these two calls  
>> interact, as far as stars are concerned?
>
> FOVMagnitudeLimits effectively sets the four magnitude slider  
> widgets for the FoV to whatever you set them to.
>
> FOVStarLimits is probably not really of much use in V2, since the  
> rendering of stars is somewhat cleverer than in V1. Actually, I'm  
> not even sure it's necessary in V1 most of the time, and remains  
> there mainly for legacy reasons. I would avoid using it. At a later  
> stage I will investigate further and see if it needs to be deprecated.
>
> Paul R.
>
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