OSXplanet is a program based on the popular program xplanet made in Cocoa and Objective-C. It replaces your desktop with a picture of earth showing where it is night and day. Make sure you read the README and do all the things on it before reporting bugs! OSXplanet will not work with the option "Change Picture" enabled! If anyone would like to make a new icon for OSXplanet please email it to me at gabriel@otte.ucsc.edu. What's New: Version 0.6: Almost a complete rewrite of the code: This should fix problems like (occasional default aqua screens, and continue refreshing of desktop after OSXplanet quits) on many computers. Now compatible with both Jaguar and Panther. OSXplanet is (for now) out of Beta Stage. The subsolar and sublunar point can now be shown. Added checkboxes along the cities for easier enabling. You can now double-click on a city to update the information. You may now edit multiple cities at the same time (for colors and things). You can now adjust the weakest strength of earthquake to be displayed. Note: That this will only take effect after you have updated the earthquake data and then the next desktop refresh. Changed the update of cloud maps to 3 1/2 hours to ensure that the newest map is loaded. Removed the Stop and Start OSXplanet buttons and replaced it simply with an Apply Changes Button under the Others Tab. OSXplanet now runs full time and the changes you make changes at the next update. You can now return the background to the Pre-OSXplanet stage. You can now set an origin planet for earth if you'd like. The projection automatically is set to orthographic. You must set the projection to Set Origin before you can select an origin planet for earth. You can now have the face of the earth that is always light displayed by setting the origin of the earth to sun. If you have any suggestion please email me at gabriel@otte.ucsc.edu. |  |
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