Feature request: command line control of Stellarium
Bug #797951 reported by
Matthew Gates
This bug affects 1 person
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Bug Description
Hi, I want to suggest a feature. I dont know where else to post this.
Is it possible to program Stellarium so if someone passes variables thru the command line ,ex: "Stellarium.exe -s moon" which will open up Stellarium showing the moon. This will become a very powerful feature when integrating Stellarium with other astronomical software.
Also if someone can develop an extension for chrome and firefox webmasters can embed links on there websites so when a user clicks a link it open up Stellarium with the given query. example: <a href="Stellariu
Thanks.
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status: | New → Opinion |
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Difficult to come up with the x-platform method of doing the "if not running, start new instance, else tell running instance to look at object X".
Firefox does this by having a wrapper script on *nix systems, and renaming the actual binary firefox-bin. We might try a similar approach. It might be more aesthetically pleasing to have a common program rather than a wrapper script on one platform and a binary wrapper on others. However, the code for the IPC will be totally OS dependent, so I don't know how much benefit there is to that approach.