Hi,
Before attempting to work on the Logbook plugin as I proposed in an earlier
message, I thought it made the most sense to get used to working with Qt
and Stellarium by writing a new plugin. I spent the past few nights putting
together a small plugin that provides a ui for managing lists of objects
(stars, planets, nebula etc). The plugin lets you keep multiple lists, add
items to the list by clicking on them and pressing a button to add them,
then go to items in your list by double clicking. I plan to share the code
when I have it stable. I don't imagine that there is a lot of demand for
this but it might be useful to a few users. (One use case would be a
downloadable list of weekly celestial highlights, which when imported by
the plugin would let you see specified objects at a specified time at the
click of a button.)
In the process of writing the plugin I have learned a lot, but I have a few
questions:
1. What is the easiest way to create a new plugin? I just copied another
plugin, stripped out the stuff I didn't need and renamed variables
appropriately. It would be nice if there was a small script to do all of
the laborious bits: collect basic info about the plugin (author, title,
whether it has config etc), create basic source stubs, edit relevant build
files. I actually spent a lot of time just trying to get the plugin to
build.
2. Why does the StelDialog class require so much user code? I may have
misunderstood how to use it, but it seems much more complicated to use than
a QDialog. To get it to work, I had to add title bar with title and close
button, set styles, and set translations. Why isn't this functionality
provided by default in the base StelDialog class? What am I missing?
3. Is there a unique and persistent identifier for objects (stars, planets
etc)? I was using the name, but sometimes this isn't a unique value (some
objects don't have names).
dm
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