Is there any way to just select a star?

EDG

One of the most infuriating things I'm finding about AS3 is that I can't seem to just highlight a star - if I search for a star, I want to be able to have the option of just highlighting it without the screen automatically centering on it. This is handy so I can get an idea of where a star is relative to another one.

Is there any way to do this?

EDG

I've managed to hack the Label Distance plugin so that it finds the star name in the plugin and turns the label visible from 10,000 ly away and sets it a different colour to stand out. It's a rather clunky way to do it though - is there a better way?

#plugin Find Specific Star
#author	EDG
#desc Find the star shown below and highlight it

sector = GetCurrentSector()
j = sector.SystemCount
For i = 1 to j 
	o = sector.GetSystem( i-1)
	If o.name = "Omicron Capricorni A" Then
		o.Modified = true
		o.LabelDistance = 10000
		o.RouteDistance = 10000
		o.LabelColor = 400000
	End if

	
Next
sector.RenderMessageBig = ""
sector.RenderMessageSmall = ""
RefreshScene

Ed_NBOS

There's no way to do it without a script.

The next update will have scripting support for the natural language search, so you'll be able to generate a list of bodies using the same type of query you'd use in the search box, and then have easy access to the results for selecting and manipulating.