Revision 695703

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Features in Educational

James Bowlin committed changes in /branches/work/kdeedu_kstars_htm/kstars/kstars:

NOTE: this is the HTM branch, not the trunk.

Preparing for primetime.

The indexing needed three tweaks in order to be ready for the masses:

1) Reverse precession correction in the SkyMesh::aperture() call.
2) Fine tuning of the LineList JIT updating.
3) Re-indexing of stars every 150 years.

The first one is done. The second is almost done and I expect to have the third one done by the end of today.

The reason the 2nd task is unfinished is because I don't know if the constellation boundaries should precess along with the stars or if they should be fixed to the Earth's axis like the coordinate grid.

If anyone knows if the constellation boundaries should precess or not, please let me know and I will implement it that way. Currently the boundaries drawn on the screen precess but the polygons we use to determine which constellation a point is in don't precess. It is easy to do it either way but I can't do it both ways at the same time (unless someone provides me with an Options::function() to let the users choose :-).

Also, added prioritization to SkyLabeler so the most important labels get drawn first and have a better chance of showing up since we no longer draw labels that would overlap existing labels. The priority
is currently:

Planets (SolarSystemSingleComponent)
Jupiter's Moons
Asteroids
Comets (which aren't being labeled ATM)
Constellation Names
Stars

SkyLabeler prevents labels from overlapping. You can adjust the vertical density with "F" and "G". The "B" keys prints brief statistics. These key actions are probably for development only.
The speed and size of the SkyLabeler both scale linearly with the number of screenRows (part of the "B" key output).

File Changes

Deleted 1 files
  • /branches/work/kdeedu_kstars_htm/kstars/kstars/skycomponents/linelist.cpp
Modified 27 files
  • /branches/work/kdeedu_kstars_htm/kstars/kstars
  •   /CMakeLists.txt
  •   /starobject.cpp
  •   /starobject.h
  •   /htmesh/HTMesh.h
  •   /htmesh/MeshBuffer.h
  •   /htmesh/MeshIterator.h
  •   /skycomponents/asteroidscomponent.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/cometscomponent.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/constellationlines.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/constellationlines.h
  •   /skycomponents/constellationnamescomponent.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/coordinategrid.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/coordinategrid.h
  •   /skycomponents/jupitermoonscomponent.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/linelist.h
  •   /skycomponents/linelistindex.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/linelistindex.h
  •   /skycomponents/polylistindex.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/README.indexing
  •   /skycomponents/skylabel.h
  •   /skycomponents/skylabeler.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/skylabeler.h
  •   /skycomponents/skymapcomposite.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/skymesh.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/skymesh.h
  •   /skycomponents/solarsystemsinglecomponent.cpp
  •   /skycomponents/starcomponent.cpp
28 files changed in total