Thanks for the responses Ivan and Bogdan. I should have clarified that
I do have most things working. My questions were just trying to
confirm that I used the most efficient approach.

I did read the documentation, wiki, and studied the API and other
plugins to get a handle on things. They were all helpful, but perhaps
a more detailed wiki entry would be a useful addition. :)

> The title bar can be easily copied from an existing window (at least
> in Qt Designer) and the code for hooking up the close button is
> minimal.

I used the designer in QtCreator but didn't figure out how to copy
bits of one form into another. I kept getting an error message about
needing to break the layout when I tried to paste, but breaking the
layout resulted in a mess. User error on my part, I suppose...

> I think that you don't need to handle styles manually, unless your
> plug-in is using a custom style sheet for some reason.

It appears the I need to set the style so that the window title and
close box are styled appropriately.

> The language code needs to be handled separately because sometimes
> there are things like lists in the window that need to be repopulated
> when the language is changed.

I see. That makes sense.

>Stars in the primary catalogs use their Hipparcos number, DSOs use NGC
>numbers, SSO names are supposed to be unique, ditto for
>constellations.

So is the "name" member of StelObject supposed to include the
Hipparcos #, NGC #, or SSO name? Or do I need to retrieve this info
somehow from the derived class?

Thanks,
dm

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