@Genar-Hofoen
do you think it might be possible to make an extra column for planets just like the one for stars (doesnt have to be that detailed - although that would be nice if you could see tiny planet logos - a dot for "yes there are planets added to this system" would be nice aswell)? right now you have to either click an every system to see if there are planets added or you have to write a note.
Sneakily enough there is in fact a planets column in the jump table - I Saw The Future[tm] when I was first writing CL last year - I just have had it hidden until I decided what to do about planets. Mwuahahaha
Technical bit ahead....
The conundrum is this: would adding in a bunch of icons for system planets further slow down the initial loading of the jump table or not? I have in fact spent a considerable amount of time trying to speed up the loading/populating of the jump table when CL is first started. I've come to the conclusion that it's not the star icon generation and placing into the jump table which is the bottleneck (there is next to no slowdown in loading a database when I disable the star icon generation), the slowness is down to the particular QTableWidget (I'm using the Qt GUI toolkit) which the jump table is made from. It's sloowwwwwww! When CL first starts it loads the currently configured active database and for each entry in that database I add a row to the table and insert the data, and create star icons if stars were marked as being in that system.
QTableWidget, it turns out, is notoriously slow when adding individual rows in this manner.
There is another way to do this, that is to use a QTableView and use a direct view on the database to display the contents of said database - but then I'd have to lose the star icons and colouring for bookmarks etc. Basically, it's too difficult to do with the database anyway.
This I hope explains why CL is slow to load larger-sized databases - it's the jump table Widget that's to blame for the slowness.
Anyway, the planet column. I can either bite the bullet and do a similar thing to the stars - i.e. generate planet icons and bung 'em in the freshly unhidden column, or do something else to indicate planets. My preference is the former (icons), but now there's the problem that the two Notes columns are getting squeezed, so some GUI layout redesign may be called for.
I see a lot of work involved
Regards o7
