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VStar is a visualisation and analysis tool for variable star data brought to you by AAVSO
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Checkpointing in VStar #194

Open yorkpf opened 3 years ago

yorkpf commented 3 years ago

We need some way of checkpointing our activities in VStar, so that we can save our work in case of a mistake, or between different sessions of VStar, and pick it up again from that same point later on.

A typical scenario is this: You load up some ZTF data, work on the zr and zg light curves for a while, eliminating bad catflag data, discrepant obs, outliers,etc. This all takes care, time and effort. You then load up some ASAS-SN data, but forget to tick the “Add to current?” box. Bang! All of the current ZTF work vanishes and you have to repeat it. Painful. I have had as many as 4 or 5 edited light curves on screen at once and lost the lot.

As I think further on this, it would be nice simply to save our work from the current session so that further work can be done on it in a future session, without going back to square one.

A possible solution (and maybe easier) to the problem of over-writing existing work by accident might be to pop up a dialog box, asking "Do you really want to load a new obs dataset over the current one? [David Benn]

dbenn commented 3 years ago

The idea of a "project" has been considered in the VStar context for a long time. This may be appropriate for the current problem. Need to spend time ruminating.

yorkpf commented 3 years ago

The “project” idea sounds OK, if I understand it correctly

On 4 Nov 2021, at 8:26 am, dbenn @.***> wrote:

The idea of a "project" has been considered in the VStar context for a long time. This may be appropriate for the current problem. Need to spend time ruminating.

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