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Drag Records into Another Application

Move records straight from the ephemeris table into a spreadsheet or another application without exporting a file. Select the records, drag one of the selected rows out of the Cygnus window onto the target application and release the mouse button.

The target application receives the records as tab-delimited text of the ephemeris table's visible columns, with a heading row. If the row you drag is part of the current selection, every selected record is carried; otherwise only the row you drag is carried. Dragging works on Ephemeris and Aspect Ephemeris studies, the two study types with an ephemeris table.

Drag Records to Another Application​

Before you drag:

  • Generate the Ephemeris or Aspect Ephemeris study so that its ephemeris table shows records (see Generate Study).
  • Select the records you want to carry in the ephemeris table. Click the first record and Shift-click the last to select a block of adjacent records, or Cmd-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) to add records that are not adjacent.
  • Open the target application, such as a spreadsheet, beside the Cygnus window.
caution

On Windows, release the Shift key before you drop. A drop made while Shift is held fails, and Cygnus tells you to release Shift before dropping.

To drag the records:

  1. Drag one of the selected record rows out of the Cygnus window.
  2. Release the mouse button over the target application.

A block of selected records in an Ephemeris study's ephemeris table, ready to be dragged out of the Cygnus window.

The drag starts once the pointer has moved a few pixels with the mouse button held. The drop itself is handled by the target application, which receives the records as tab-delimited text.