A system that should manage notable events

To allow some kind of history management for the most notable events related to add-on objects.

Description:

Is requested the capability of inserting some extra data in ssc file for the event management of objects. This data should contain:

- the date of the event;

- the duration of the event;

- the title of the event;

- a brief description of the event.

If event data is available for an object right clicking over the object should report the "Events" voice in the context menu. Selecting this voice an events dialog box should appear.

This Event box should be similar to the tour guide dialog box, and should be present as a sub voice in the navigation menu.

For example, say we wanted to take look at a hypothetical spacecraft “X” in Celestia. We would bring up the events dialogue and click on the entry for “X”. Below the title box would be displayed the description saying something like: “The X probe was launched in 19xx to send back pictures of planet A, B and C.”

Below this description, a list-box reports the list of events found in the add-on’s entries. When clicking on and selecting an event date, the corresponding description of the event relating to craft “X” on that date would be displayed.

There could be an entry for the event of the craft being deployed, entries for each flyby of the planets it visited and even a final event/date entry for the last know co-ordinates for the craft, whether it was lost out to space, crashed or landed.

We could (back to the example) click on the second event/date listed for craft “X” and see a description such as “Craft X arrived at planet A, passing at a range of z km and successfully sent back pictures.”

In this dialog, a handy button should be included that, once a event/date entry has been selected, will set Celestia’s time and take you to the relevant object (like the eclipse finder’s “Set date and go to planet” – maybe this one will just be called “Set date and go to …” ???).

So, (in the example) we would click on “Set date and go to…” and there we’ll be, taking in the view as craft X passes planet A.

Should you want to watch the craft’s whole flight, we just select the first entry (for launch/deployment etc), click “Set date and go to…” and speed up time as you wish.

I imagine that celestial bodies or objects that have no notable events, and hence no event entries, could possibly still be included in the same dialogue. The events list would be empty, but possibly the “Set date an go to…” button could be made to work as just a “Go to” button for those cases. The main description field will still describe the interesting features of the object.

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Further related improvements:

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Related Newsgroup Threads:

  Add-On Manager Proposal

Reference Celestia Version:

  1.3.0

Status:

  (18-08-03) Submitted to forum attention.

  (24-08-03) Waiting.

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  Paolo Angeli.

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