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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hilary</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=peter_4059@yahoo.com href="mailto:peter_4059@yahoo.com">Peter B</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [APBeta] re. multiple plans
open</DIV>
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<DIV>Paul,</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Peter</DIV>
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