scripting: waitFor function

[Khalid AlAjaji]

The WaitFor script function calculates the waiting time wrongly.

Ex:

core.setDate("2012:05:01T01:00:00","local");

// wait for time 5 days later

core.waitFor("2012:05:06T01:00:00","local");

// Now move view direction south and up
core.moveToAltAzi(25,90,2);

Time difference between setDate and waitFor is 5 days and waitFor function treats it as 5 seconds.

Please see my question: https://answers.launchpad.net/stellarium/+question/207795

This bug is old and I think it appeared after 0.10.4

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Default time speed for waitFor is one JD per second and example work correct. In really we have other "bug" - time not synchronized for scripts and for GUI.

If set other time speed (core.setTimeRate()) then script will be work not correct.

Possible ways for solution: we can set time speed for waitFor as real time and remove time rate (set value for rate as 1).

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 7849 of the trunk branch of Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7849