[Lazarus] Astronomy Software

[Matt Shaffer]

I understood his message to mean that he didn't want to use windows-only
apps/code. I'm sure he'll port it to those systems, and if he doesn't, it's
on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself ;).

I think a useful format for reports would be an image or an excel file, but
working with excel files is never easy.

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Phil Hess <macpgmr at fastermac.net> wrote:

> 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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