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Version 3 of Solar System.sb (now posted) includes a (simulated) elliptical orbit for Mercury. I add this because it is almost as elliptical as Pluto, and is apparent in the display. I have also corrected the orbit "offsets" of Mercury & Pluto so that they don't vary as you change the Zoom level. (A...

Thank you. I've never understood (or looked into) Retina display, so had no idea my problem would be related to it. My iPad Mini shows the Screen Scale as 2. Is that Retina or Non-Retina? (I don't see it in the manual). In my program I had to multiply pixel locations by 2 to work correctly. It sound...

I have posted Version 2 of SolarSystem.sb in the original post, with the following changes that I hope are improvements: - smoother scaling, especially for the outer planets. - Stop/Go button is now a Pause/Go button. This allows adjusting of Scale & Speed while paused or stopped at a Stop Date. Go ...

Chooch912- I'm coming up 90 in 2 months, so keep on programming! If you need any explanations in Solar System I'll be happy to help. My introduction to BASIC was in the 1970's on a time-share IBM main-frame computer with input and paper output on a teletype machine, and we saved our program on (and ...

Thank you rbytes for solving my problem. I was trying to read the screen pixel colour at specific points using GET PIXEL X,Y COLOR R,G,B,A but could not get it to work and had no idea why. I had never heard of such a thing as 4 pixels per screen location. So I just had to change my statement to GET ...

I have made a small revision to colour the Stop button red [Add: SET BUTTONS CUSTOM (near the top) and FILL COLOR 1,0,0 (where the button is created)].

Thank you for trying it out. I have updated the listing to show the corrections, (just before the REFRESH ON statement). I must have accidenally deleted these during the transferring from my listing to the Forum. (I did some minor editing after transferring). I have changed the formulas for interpre...

Looks interesting, but sorry, what is it used for? I can see it's an aid for developing programs, which could be useful, but I don't see what it basically does. Could you explain it please.

This program is an "Orrery". Look it up. :-) This model of the Solar System shows all the planets (including the Moon and Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. You can adjust the display speed and the zoom to show the inner and outer planets moving at their correct relative speeds. You can have the progra...

This simple program lets you adjust R, G, & B sliders to match a colour, and shows the RGB values to use in a program. It also prints the values on the screen in a format that you can Copy/Paste to the FILL COLOR statement of a Smart BASIC program. Because Copy/Paste does not work on the output of a...