Celestial Navigation Plugin Redux

[rgleason]

celestial_navigation_pi-1.10-ov3.2.2-d-win32.exe
under 3.2.2 PI Win

has been recompiled with Sean's modifications.
I have tested it and color and reverse names are fixed.

Can I now close all of the FS items listed above?

[NAV]

Originally Posted by rgleason

Ok, NAV, just wanted to be sure. Thanks for keeping us on track.
FS#1440 : Fix reversing order Sight entry
FS#1461 : Dates entered as e.g. 1957-08-04 (august 4, 1957) is changed by plugin after restart to 1957-04-08 (
FS#1450 : Change of COP is not possible after entry and date entry problem
FS#1447 : Change color, color name does not change in menu.

1440 can be closed.
1450 can be closed.
1447 can be closed (however, rgb indication doesn't show the user in a direct way what color it represents).

1461 is still not 100% solved. If dates are changed, at the next start up the month and the day are wrong (august 4 becomes april 8). A second start up makes everything correct again.

[NAV]

Attached is an update and improvement of the Dutch language file for the Celestial Navigation plugin.

[NAV]

1440 happened again ...

To me, it now seems to be a problem in display of sight data. After clicking and closing each sight, everything showed normal again.

[NAV]

Attached article "Determining the Position and Motion of a Vessel from Celestial Observations" might be interesting for Sean.

[rgleason]

1447 can be closed (however, rgb indication doesn't show the user in a direct way what color it represents).

Perhaps we could limit the palette of colors that can be selected to 16 and have Names which would make it so much easier?

Thanks.

[rgleason]

Closed: FS#1450 : Change of COP is not possible after entry and date entry problem
Closed: FS#1447 : Change color, color name does not change in menu.
Would prefer to see color selection limited to 16 named colors.

Nav
1461 is still not 100% solved. If dates are changed, at the next start up the month and the day are wrong (august 4 becomes april 8). A second start up makes everything correct a

FS#1461 : Dates entered as e.g. 1957-08-04 (august 4, 1957) is changed by plugin after restart to 1957-04-08 (

Nav
1440 happened again ...To me, it now seems to be a problem in display of sight data. After clicking and closing each sight, everything showed normal again.

FS#1440 : Fix reversing order Sight entry

[rgleason]

After adding new entries, I find that the old entry parameters were change to rgb settings which is correct, and new entries show color names. It appears the plugin will assign a standard color parameter and provide a familiar color name provided you don't select some custom color.

I think the color selection is working fine now.

[rgleason]

NAV
After deleting all sight entries and starting over, I have tried to get the plugin to do
FS#1440 : Fix reversing order Sight entry
FS#1461 : Dates entered as e.g. 1957-08-04 (august 4, 1957) is changed by plugin after restart to 1957-04-08
and I have been unsuccessful. I believe these items can be closed now in FS.

Would there be any need for saving a group of "sights" as a simple file so they can be recalled later by importing or opening the text file? This would permit each group of sights to be saved with a name.

Or does the "eye" feature provide enough flexibility?

I think we should add your article
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ml#post1622363

to the documentation, since that writeup appears to be the direction Sean wanted to go.

[rgleason]

New update to celestial_nav
See http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ml#post1628316

[NAV]

FS#1461 : Dates entered as e.g. 1957-08-04 (august 4, 1957) is changed by plugin after restart to 1957-04-08

This problem seems to be solved now, after uninstalling the previous version, and installing the latest version of the plugin.

I still experience bug FS#1440 : Fix reversing order Sight entry.

[NAV]

Originally Posted by rgleason

Would there be any need for saving a group of "sights" as a simple file so they can be recalled later by importing or opening the text file? This would permit each group of sights to be saved with a name.
Or does the "eye" feature provide enough flexibility.

An overview giving the fix position and the fix accuracy figure together with the observation and reduction data and maybe some intermittent calculation values would be a plus (all data for a single fix in one overview).

[NAV]

Originally Posted by rgleason

I think we should add your article
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ml#post1622363

to the documentation, since that writeup appears to be the direction Sean wanted to go.

Done.

[rgleason]

Added the Feature Request
FS#1492 : Save to xml format (?) and Load Individual Sight Information

Closed FS 1461

Thanks for adding the article. Added to
http://willkamp.com/opencpn/flyspray...s&task_id=1441

[rgleason]

Here is a great thread. Well worth reading to understand where differences come from.
Nav is any of it applicable here?

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...d.php?t=133040

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