This dialog allows you to get horoscopes from a text file or a directory.
Text file or directory to import:
The full path for the text file or directory you want to import.
Click the Browse button, the cursor being in this edit control, to browse your computer for the text file.
See below for details about the syntax of this file.
Target directory:
The directory you want the output horoscope files to be written in.
Note:
Proastro uses the name and the first name of the person to build the name of the horoscope file.
For example, suppose the name and first name in the line of the text file are Jack and Fatman.
Then Proastro will export this line as the Fatman_Jack0.xml file.
If the Fatman_Jack0.xml file already exists, the Fatman_Jack1.xml name will be used.
If the Fatman_Jack1.xml file already exists, the Fatman_Jack2.xml and so on...
Proastro will never overwrite an existing horoscope file in your target directory.
Click the Browse button, the cursor being in this edit control, to browse your computer for the target directory.
Log file:
Proastro will write every import error or warning in this file.
If this field is blank, Proastro will continue except if the break on error is checked.
Click the Browse button, the cursor being in this edit control, to browse your computer for the log file.
If the log file does not exist, Proastro will create a new one.
If the log file already exists, Proastro will append text on it.
Separator string:
The string to use as a separator for the data field in each line of the text file to import.
You can also input here a C escape sequence.
For the moment, only \t (tab character) is supported.
Options:
Syntax of the text file:
The text file to import has several lines, one line for each horoscope to compute
Suppose the string separator in;
A line in the file will look like this:
Franklin;Aretha;The Queen of soul;F;1942-03-25 22:30:00.00 GD;AA;Memphis;Comté de Shelby;Tennessee;États-Unis;06h00'11.76" W;35d08'58.32" N;1942-03-26 03:30:00.00 GD
Description of each field:
Number of the field |
Description of the field |
1 |
Last name of the person. |
2 |
First name of the person. |
3 |
Aka (Also known as), for example Lady Gaga, Madonna and so on. |
4 |
Sex of the person. |
5 |
Legal (official) birth date/hour |
6 |
Rodden: Reliability of the birth informations. (https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rodden,_Lois_M.) |
7 |
City name. |
8 |
County name. |
9 |
State name. |
10 |
Country name. |
11 |
Longitude of the birth place. See remark below for details. |
12 |
Latitude of the birth place in degrees. See remark below for details. |
13 |
Birth UT date/hour See remark below for details. |
Remarks:
If the Longitude, Latitude, UT Date/hour
fields are filled Proastro uses the City name, County name, State name and Country
name fields for information purpose only.
If one of the Longitude, Latitude, UT
date/hour fields is empty, Proastro try to fill these
fields doing a search in its city data files.
The Legal date, Legal hour, City name, County name, State name, Country name
are then used to do the search.
If the search fail, an error message is written in the log file.
The search algorithm is the same as the one used in the New
Horoscope dialog
Search feedback is written in the log file.