[Lazarus] Astronomy Software

[Phil Hess]

Terry,

I've found that generating reports as raw RTF and then viewing them with your user's word processor is a good cross-platform solution and lets you use the full power of RTF, which is supported by all word processors. Tools are here:

http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/XDev/XDevStatus.html#RTF

On Mac it would be a lot easier since all you have to do is provide a print mechanism and the OS X Print dialog automatically gives you print preview and save to PDF, but the other platforms don't have that.

Why limit your app to the teeny tiny world of Linux tinkerers? Don't you think the Win/Mac communities could benefit from your app? It's not really that difficult to maintain a single code base that supports Delphi on Windows and Lazarus on all platforms.

Thanks.

-Phil



----- "Terry A. Haimann" <terry at HaimannOnline.com> wrote:

> For what it is worth I have created a project on SourceForge 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/messier/) with my Astronomy Program. 
> 
> It is a basic Observing Planning and Logging Program.  It is of course
> 
> written in Lazarus (I converted it from Delphi) and got most of the 
> Algorithyms from "Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator" By Peter 
> Duffet-Smith.
> 
> There are two major things I would like to add to it:
> 
> 1.  Using a report generator instead of Printer.Canvas.TextOut
> Statements.
> 2.  I would like to merge it with Planetarium Program. I could do this
> 
> with Cartes Du Ciel 2.76, but not the newer SkyChart and since my 
> primary audience is going to be Linux Users, I really don't want to
> use 
> a Windows App.
> 
> Terry
> 
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