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Kstars right-click popup menu hard to popup on object

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If I use the "Find object", the object is centered but not marked in any way (like in e.g. Stellarium)
so it may be hard to locate it in order to bring up the right-click menu.
And if I zoom in to much I have to right-click exactly on the correct spot to bring it up, else
all I see is a "Empty sky Andromeda" menu even if I click inside the Andromeda galaxy.

Am I missing something in the settings?

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Håkan W
 
2 years 7 months ago #74418

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Hi Håkan,

Could you please provide more information on your issue? At best in the following form:

1) Start at a Common base line (like, „I open Kstars“)
2) list things you do …
3) … and that happen.
4) So that anyone is able to take the same steps you did.

Then give what you expect to happen instead:
3) … and at which step.

Last but not least: Give some indication what you‘re trying to achieve (the why).

Hope this helps.
2 years 7 months ago #74505

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Hi Grimaldi, thanks for your input!

The function "<strong>Find Object</strong>" (Ctrl-F) works well as long as the object is small (point), lika a star.
Then is is easy to find where to right-click to get the popup-menu.

My problem is when the object is large, like the Andromeda galaxy, Orion or Viel nebula etc.
Most of the time I get an "<strong>Empty Sky Andromeda</strong>" menu (or similar) instead of the right menu, see attachment.
I have to click very, very, very precise in the middle(?) of the object to get the corresponding menu popup.

So my wish is that as long as I clock inside the marked object i will get the menu for the object I was looking for.

OK, what if I want the click on one of the stars inside the marked object?
Then my idea is:
1) If I search for an object using the Ctrl-F function then that object is marked (in prio) and any click inside it corresponds to that object.
2) If I just click randomly in the skychart (no Ctrl-F) then I get what I am clicking on, a star, whatever, regardless of other near or overlapping objects


++Håkan++
 


 
Last edit: 2 years 7 months ago by Håkan Wahlberg.
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This is mostly resolved in 3.5.5 beta.
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2 years 6 months ago #75365

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I've been using 3.5.5 beta, and while it is better, it still have this problem if the item is in a star field. While not fixing this particular problem, if the object search had an option for GoTo, such that you did not have to right click it, that would be a good work-around.  



Details, does have "center in telescope", perhaps that is what I am looking for?
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I too, am using current 3.5.5 beta git pulled and locally built on my Rpi4. Same problem - but last night I had a thought. If we turn off the display of stars in the sky atlas could we then
force the right click behavior to only consider finding non-star objects?
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