Is it at all possible to improve the way way that bodies are entered into the system? Having to enter each body one by one is a pain - could the Create Objects not be turned into more like a "table" instead, with all the parameters for each body on a single row? That way we can just enter all the bodies at the same time.

Like this (see attached):
 
At least this way you don't have to keep hit Create Objects seven times to make the system - you just enter it all into the table and submit it, then you're done.
 
Even better would be a way to just read a tab or space delimited text file containing that table and then have it convert it into gsim format from that.

If we can also set the starting time and timestep like this, that would be nice too. e.g. I usually prefer to start my sims at a date/time of "1 1 0 00:00:00", and a very low timestep (e.g. 0.0000001) - starting off with time Paused would be ideal, but it doesn't show anything onscreen when paused.

Quote from EDG on 05/19/13 at 13:36:34:

Early May:  May 1 - May 9
Mid May:  May 10-May 20
Late May: May 21-May 31
 
For bugging me a day too early, I shall have to assess a 5-day penalty.  On a more serious note, late May for me doesn't officially begin until Friday, an hour after my semester ends and all my papers are graded!  I love the idea.  It's much better than re-inventing the wheel and trying to put a spreadsheet inside Gravity Simulator.  So stay-tuned.  I'll do it soon.

I think the five-day penalty should have passed by now...

Quote from Tony on 06/02/13 at 16:45:54:

 
Decimals points (it's the canadian english version).

Normally Excel gives us the opportunity to read decimals as a point or as a comma .  

Frank, are you a comma person?  I'm currently coding this thing for decimal people.  But once its finished and debuged (the harder part), I can always switch to tabs to include the comma people too.  We are one world!