On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Mark Taylor wrote:
> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:44:54 +0100
> From: Mark Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Starlink development <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: PLASTIC
>
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
> > OK, in the endless search for perfection, I've changed the marker so that
> > it grows with the image scale factor and sorted out the interface a bit as
>
> growing's quite a good idea, but shrinking is questionable - if you're
> viewing at 1/N scale the circle shrinks to a dot which is hard to see.
> Not sure if there's an easy way to set a minimum size for this item.
There wasn't, but I think the minimum possible scale for the marker
is now 1. You'll need to rebuild gaia_wish to see this, so just run
"make" in "gaia/gaia".
> BTW if you want to see this in action (and you haven't worked it out yet)
> you can load a table into TOPCAT that matches the bit of sky GAIA's
> looking at and use the "Activation Action" button in the control
> window main panel to select "Transit Coordinates" with suitable RA/DEC
> columns.
Hadn't worked that out (was just sending messages from the command-line).
Works quite nicely!
Cheers,
Peter.
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