The 'selectObjectByName' pointer changed to always being 'false'

[Austin-RR]

It appears the behaviour of selectObjectByName has changed unexpectedly when upgrading Stellarium from 24.2 to 24.3. The "pointer" parameter seems to always be set to "false" now.

I did a test by completely uninstalling Stellarium (and all custom user files) and then ran the following command immediately from a clean installation of Stellarium:

core.selectObjectByName("M31", true);

The same command above on version 24.2 displays the selection pointer while version 24.3 does not.

Installation files used for this test on my Windows 10 laptop:

• stellarium-24.2-qt6-win64.exe
• stellarium-24.3-qt6-win64.exe

I also seen the same result on my computer at work that runs Windows 11. I also tried the following latest snapshot, but I got the same result of the selection pointer never showing:
stellarium-24.3-44fb485-qt6-win64.exe

Thanks!

[alex-w]

Please show value of viewing/flag_show_selection_marker in config.ini file

[Austin-RR]

Hi Alex. Unfortunately, I am unable to find the flag_show_selection_marker option anywhere in my config.ini file. (I attached my 24.3 config file here as a TXT file.)

Just out of curiosity, I manually added flag_show_selection_marker = true under [Viewing] to the config file in my 24.3 installation. This edit did not help. The same test command I used in my original post still does not display the selection pointer. I do not know if this information helps at all, but I thought I would report it anyway. Thanks!

config.txt

[gzotti]

Weird. It does not show in 24.3, but is OK again in current master.

[alex-w]

Hello @Austin-RR!

Please check the fresh version (development snapshot) of Stellarium:
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/tag/weekly-snapshot

[github-actions]

Hello @Austin-RR!

OK, developers can reproduce the issue. Thanks for the report!

[alex-w]

Weird. It does not show in 24.3, but is OK again in current master.

I can confirm the issue in current master

[Austin-RR]

Glad you confirmed the issue. It is not a huge issue for me as I can use something like this code as a temporary (until 24.4) fix to have a pointer drawn after selecting the object:

MarkerMgr.markerObject("M31",true,"dashed-square","#6c87db",20,false,0);

Thanks to everyone!

[alex-w]

OK, I found a bad guy (see commit 447acba) of course it will not work :-/

[gzotti]

Oops, sorry. I had not seen the pointer call in the end... Now added a docfix.

[github-actions]

Hello @Austin-RR!

Please check the fresh version (development snapshot) of Stellarium:
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/tag/weekly-snapshot

[github-actions]

Hello @Austin-RR!

Please check the latest stable version of Stellarium:
https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/latest