Features:

Contains different views of horoscope: classical chart, planets view and plain text;
Provides detail information about each element of horoscope;
Uses 9 house systems and over 40 aspects for horoscope calculation;
Allows to view tropical and sidereal zodiacs;
Compact, dock-based user interface;
Includes Swiss Ephemeris © library;
English & Russian language support.

Subprojects:

``Zodiac` project consists of following parts:

zodiac - front-end application with tab interface and user-defined files management;
astroprocessor - library with classes for astrological calculations and settings management;
swe - Swiss Ephemeris Library. Provides positions of planets, houses etc;
chart - library for making natal chart;
plain - library for making simple text view of horoscope;
planets - library for making planets viewer;
details - library for displaying planet properties;
fileeditor - library for editing horoscope data.

Content of subdirs:

bin/ - executable, libraries and other application files.
bin/i18n/ - localization files for all projects;
bin/images/ - various astrological images used in application
bin/style/ - CSS and icons for application
bin/text/ - interpretations of astrological items
bin/user/ - collection of user files (File->Open & File->Save)
bin/astroprocessor/,
bin/chart/,
bin/fileeditor/,
bin/plain/,
bin/planets/,
bin/swe/ - files used by Swiss Ephemeris library;
chart/, fileeditor/, plain/, planets/, details/, astroprocessor/, swe/, zodiac/ - subprojects
nsis/ - files for Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

Build instructions:

Requirement: Qt > 4.8 (works in Qt 4.8.2 and in Qt 5.3 as well).

Method 1: automatic bundle build

This method will produce a single executable file with integrated project libraries.

Open zodiac/zodiac_bundle.pro in Qt Creator, select a build configuration (Debug or Release) then build (Ctrl+B).

Method 2: automatic separate build (Windows only)

Open all.pro in Qt Creator, and build it as usual. It will produce a main executable (zodiac) with a few dynamic libraries.

Method 3: manual build

This is a variation of 'method 2' that supposes manual building of all subprojects. Open projects in QtCreator and build them manually in the following order:

1. swe/swe.pro
2. astroprocessor/astroprocessor.pro
3. chart/chart.pro
fileeditor/fileeditor.pro
plain/plain.pro
planets/planets.pro
planets/details.pro
4. zodiac/zodiac.pro

Run on Windows:

To run application on Windows after build, put following Qt libraries into app directory:

imageformats/qgif.dll
imageformats/qico.dll
imageformats/qjpeg.dll
platforms/qwindows.dll

In Qt 5.2, they are located in C:\Qt\5.2.1\mingw48_32\plugins.

External links:

For more information, visit

atten/zodiac