You are here

Stellarium Portable 0.10.2 Pre-Release 1

3 posts / 0 new
Last post
Kevin Porter
Kevin Porter's picture
Offline
Last seen: 10 years 3 weeks ago
Developer
Joined: 2007-01-10 19:25
Stellarium Portable 0.10.2 Pre-Release 1

Application: Stellarium
Category: Education
Description: Stellarium Portable is a free, open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope. You can view the planets and gaze at the stars in stunning detail. Stellarium includes vivid illustrations of the constellations and a theatrical display of ravishing nebulae and galaxies. With Stellarium Portable, you can transform any computer into a stargazing centerpiece.

This Stellarium release goes by the codename "It actually works!" In the previous release, it was noted that there was a lot of trouble with the new settings implementation. I've tried everything I can think of, and unfortunately there is only one way to get the settings to work portably. Again, this is the --user-dir="$SETTINGSDIRECTORY" implementation. Unfortunately, Stellarium refuses to allow spaces in this setup. That means if there is a space in the path Stellarium is in, it just crashes. I've implemented a warning which on first launch of Stellarium will warn the user about this issue. Please let me know if there are issues especially with this feature. Also, in this latest release, I've implemented an alternate launching system that will copy the files to the default Stellarium AppData directory if you have no choice but to use spaces. It should work properly, but do let me know if there are problems with that. Read the help.html file for information on how to get this to work.

Download Stellarium Portable 0.10.2 Pre-Release 1 [35.8MB download / 44.4MB installed]
(MD5: 2128e6fe9c5ca4b1aee1fae1ffff6200)

Release Notes:

Pre-Release 1 (2009-04-08):

  • Updated Stellarium version
  • Implemented alternate launching system along with warning system

OliverK
OliverK's picture
Offline
Last seen: 2 years 9 months ago
Developer
Joined: 2007-03-27 15:21
excited? Congrats by the

excited? Congrats by the way.
Never mind me, just the village idiot fool wandering bye.

And I may be a fool, but I'm not a idiot Biggrin

Maybe I am . . . .

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

John T. Haller
John T. Haller's picture
Offline
Last seen: 4 hours 9 min ago
AdminDeveloperModeratorTranslator
Joined: 2005-11-28 22:21
Every Launch

Have the warning come up on EVERY launch and then close. Not a warning, a statement. And then close.

INVALID PATH

Stellarium Portable can not run from a path that contains spaces. (Current Path: $EXEDIR)

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Log in or register to post comments