During the Monday night Stellarium level 2 training course, one of my students (Larry?) pointed out that right-clicking the Move a Telescope to... button would bring up the Telescope Configure box.
How about that...
A super-fast way to access the configuration controls!
I had never right-clicked a button in Stellarium... In general, it's not a "normal" thing. You don't do that. Larry intimdated he discovered it just by clicking around with his mouse until something happened! Ha! So, this was rather intriguing.
Today, I took it one step further.
I had a hunch...
It seems that for any button in the horizontal toolbar—which is for a plug-in—will act the same way.
I had the Angle measure, Show exoplanets, Toggle meteor showers, Show meteor showers search dialog, Artificial satellites, and the Move a Telescope to buttons in the toolbar.
Right-clicking worked for all (except the meteor search button).
This is a neat little shortcut that saves a bunch of clicks!
Take the angular measurement tool for an example. To get to the configure window by "normal" means:
- click the Configuration window button or press F2
- click the Plugins tab
- if necessary, scroll plug-ins list
- click the Angle measure item
- click the configure button
Four or five steps vs one!
Thank you, Larry.
Shared with the Stellarium trainers! Hopefully they can put it to use. I know I sure will. An awesome power-user tip.
Needs to go into my Stellarium companion materials and shortcut guide too!
Asked Ian if he can check for a quick equivalent for the Mac OS...
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Chris V texted me. Said this did not work on his computer. He's hanging back on version 0.21.1 as he depends heavily on the Bookmarks feature.
I dove into the release notes...
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Found it!
Stellarium v 0.21.2 released, circa Sep 2021. Spotted in the "major changes" section of this version:
Right-click opens plugin configuration.
So, there you have it. A relatively new feature.
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