Zagata wrote:Here is the link, Curtis:

http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic ... highlight=

Thanks. Working on the Hellenistic view now.

Wolfgang wrote:Hi,

sorry for my late answer. But I was this weekend in Germany. Now I am back.
This are my system.

http://www.screencast.com/t/5X1jnecbQ14V

Wolfgang

Looks like you're running a faster chip (clock speed) but probably the main difference is your nVidia graphics card which is generally better than AMD.

Nearly finished with the new Hellenistic view:
I've added the descendant and imum coeli along with the 7 hermetic lots, prenatal lunation. It follows your settings for planet list type (plFull, plDegreeOnly, plGlyphOnly) and will show degrees in Rx color when degree only is shown and planet is retrograde.

Still have some collision avoidance work to do because of the increased size of the arrays. I'll finish the Medieval view before the next release.

Hi Curtis,

Thank you very much. That looks superb!

I take it that now the user can increase and decrease the size of the planets and the zoidia as well as their colour in the Hellenistic wheel, correct?

I read that the requirements for Delphic Oracle 9 are 4 GB of memory. I have 4 GB and a good processor, so I will be able to run the program when I pay the for the update, right?

Thank you!

Zagata wrote:Hi Curtis,

Thank you very much. That looks superb!

I take it that now the user can increase and decrease the size of the planets and the zoidia as well as their colour in the Hellenistic wheel, correct?

I read that the requirements for Delphic Oracle 9 are 4 GB of memory. I have 4 GB and a good processor, so I will be able to run the program when I pay the for the update, right?

Thank you!

There's a scale option for the fonts in the general options | Hellenistic tab | Views that will allow for font to be scaled up or down from 1/10th to 10X. The colors used are from the colors tab of the chart designer. This only affects everything outside of the center box (chart info). Currently I have the Chart Info font set to maximum for the space allowed and haven't hooked it up to the ChartInfoFont var. Lots of people get confused about font setting because AutoSizeFont has to be false for user defined font settings to be used.

The options to show just the glyph, glyph + deg, or full list are whatever you use in the main view, but I'm thinking of overriding that because I usually use full list on the main view but just degrees in the others.

I understand what you mean. I also make sure to choose false on AutosizeFont when choosing settings. I once forgot to do that and then spent some time figuring out why my settings were not working.

I fully support your view too - to override what the main view shows and allow the other wheels to be modified, so that when say the main view shows the degrees only, the Hellenistic one will have the option of showing the degrees and minutes, or vice versa.

As I said, I know nothing about programming. I did not even realize that such a thing was possible until you mentioned it. Yours is a great idea!
For instance when using the Hellenistic wheel with the degrees only and one sees that say the Sect Light is in applying configuration within 3 degrees with both malefics, one would not know whether the Sect Light is maltreated (all other things being equal) without either moving the mouse over to each of the 3 planets one at a time so that they see the full information on that planet and whether the configuration is within less or more than 3 degrees, or without changing the settings to show degree and minute.

By implementing your clever idea of allowing the show degree feature to be independent in each wheel, the user will have that valuable benefit.
Moreover, it will literally be as the ads say "with the touch of a button". All it will take would be, when being in either wheel, to press the "View" button on the desired wheel.
It just gets better and better. Thank you.

Thanks Zagata!

The new medieval view (with mostly the same options as the Hellenistic view):
The planet listing style is now independent from the main view in both these views and will be found under General Options (F3) | Hellenistic tab | (or Medieval tab) | Views.

I still have to configure the live data for the fly by hints for the Hellenistic and Medieval views, then it will be released.

Thank you Curtis!

I like using a square wheel for horary and elections. I will always remember how neat some of the few example charts were in Ben Dykes' translation of Bonatti on Horary. They had only the degrees of the planets (no minutes or zoidia; see page 515 as one such example).
Likewise some of the points in the chart by John Ganivet in Robert Zoller's Diploma Course.

My point is that all those years ago I wanted to have a program that offers the same simplicity - a square or Hellenistic chart with just the degrees of the planets (as in many medieval chart examples), regardless of whether the chart in question used quadrant houses or whole signs.

Now finally, those that want to reproduce those ancient charts the way Ben Dykes or Zoller or someone else has, will be able to easily do so in Delphic Oracle instead of having to use the Paint program in Windows or Corel Draw etc on every single chart!

Moreover, in the case of elections, one would be able, as with the Hellenistic chart if they so prefer, to benefit from having the ascensional times of the zoidia visible. This is a method employed for timing of the significations of the electional chart. Again, this feature is incredibly useful as it saves time in having to calculate or approximate them for every chart.

On a funny, though of course true note, having the rising times of the zoidia visible prevents one from being misled or "converted".

I have had people show me a chart (not in Delphic Oracle and thus without the ascensions of the zoidia) and ask me to delineate and predict some things for the person. I assumed the person used the tropical Zodiac, but it turned out they were using the sidereal one. Talk about a surprise! Of course, if the chart were cast in Delphic Oracle and had the rising times of the zoidia visible I would have immediately noticed the unequal ascensions and known that a sidereal measurement was being used. This is just another way in which Delphic Oracle is so invaluable.

I'm uploading this release now...

** Version 9.0.0.3 - beta... Set up the medieval chart view to use whole sign divisions when whole sign houses are set in the main options (F3). In this case only the glyph will show on the cusp since the degrees for whole signs are always 0 degrees and 0 minutes. Set new Augular Triad house layout style for Hellenistic and Medieval views. When checked, it will display degrees horizontally for houses 3, 4, 5 and 9, 10, 11 implying a circular layout. In this style the degrees are listed below the planet glyph when in these houses whereas the other houses will show degrees (and minutes if selected) to the right.

Added a new Sign font size that is independent of the main chart view for the Hellenistic style wheel. This setting is available on the Main Options (F3) | Hellenistic | Views tab. The range is from [10..100], but the size will vary depending upon the scale of your screen, which is why I've allowed for this wide variance. The planet font sizes will be whatever you have set for the main chart view. Also there are 3 more options for Hellenistic view: show or hide ascensions, show or hide planetary hours and show or hide Chart info.

Added window scaling spin edit setting to the main options for the analysis windows (those that show to the right of the chart). If you have a hard time reading the font, then set this scale higher. The range is between 1/10th (0.1) to 10X with a default value of 0.6. You might notice that while changing this value some controls go out of sight or don't take up the full space of the docking area. To reset the window size to dock, just grab the splitter and resize slightly.

Also set the rounding algorithm to exclude rounding up near a sign boundary. This affects visual display when only degrees and minutes are used. The fly-by hints always show planets to the nearest hundredth of a second, but sometimes due to rounding, planets were shown at 0 degrees of the sign when they hadn't technically crossed (at 29 degrees, 59 minutes and 59.99 seconds for example would show at 0 Taurus 0). This issue has been resolved.

Hello, Martin!

Is there an option to buy the software via download? Shipping to Brazil takes forever and they will charge me 60% of the total amount for taxes.

Can you also ellaborate further on what one can get in the reports sections? Is there a way to add or get interpretations of famous books regarding certain positions? For example, what Bonatti says regarding, let's say, Venus in 5th etc (more or less like Solar Fire handles interpretations).

Best

Yair Alon wrote:Is there an option to buy the software via download? Shipping to Brazil takes forever and they will charge me 60% of the total amount for taxes.

Can you also ellaborate further on what one can get in the reports sections? Is there a way to add or get interpretations of famous books regarding certain positions? For example, what Bonatti says regarding, let's say, Venus in 5th etc (more or less like Solar Fire handles interpretations).

There's always the option to download the original installation as well as future updates.

There's a similar feature in Delphic Oracle for showing delineations of planets in signs, houses and aspects as well as when they're lords of certain houses (local determination). One can add to the delineation texts one's own notes as well using the built in editor.

There are also a few wizards that walk you through the process of understanding the nautical metaphor, the kuriios and oikodespotes (chart rulers), the preliminary natal analysis and predomination. Most of this is explained here:

http://www.astrology-x-files.com/delphi ... nload.html