On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Mark Taylor wrote:
> Sorry I didn't get to this earlier, one of those days.... Mostly OK but:
>
>
> 1. There's a slight problem with ivo://votech.org/sky/pointAtCoords.
> If it receives a pointAtCoords message to point at somewhere
> far away from the current image, it sometimes (not always)
> appears to pan the image off the main viewer. Try
>
> % gaia $KAPPA_DIR/m57.sdf &
> % java -classpath /mbt/starjava/java/lib/plastic/plastic.jar \
> uk.ac.starlink.plastic.PlasticRequest \
> -targetName gaia ivo://votech.org/sky/pointAtCoords 10 -41
>
> Wiggling the scrollbar brings it back. Presumably a sanity check
> on the coordinates near line 112 of GaiaPlastic.tcl would sort
> this out. I'm happy to investigate and hopefully fix this,
> but since it's probably a one-liner you might want to have a go.
Hi Mark,
had me going for a moment or two, but I managed to reproduce this (you
seem to need to have a successful send first). The problem is that the
off-image values are being translated to AST__BAD values, which scroll to
-DBL_MAX... Stopped that from happening.
> 2. Help|Help topics index... gives me a mostly empty window with the
> message:
>
> couldn't open "/mbt/starauto/bin/gaia/../../help/gaia/index.html
>
> the help/gaia and help/gaia.htx directories are present but empty.
> This is almost certainly not a bug it's just because I haven't
> done the build/install properly, but I just mention it so you
> can check it works for you.
Seems to be OK for me, so I'll assume you need to clean up and reinstall.
> Have a good holiday!
Thanks.
Peter.
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