[APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!

[Paul Rodman]

On Jun 16, 2008, at 12:51 , Jeff Young wrote:

> I'd say go ahead and quit the app if you can figure out a way to  
> handle
> the Catalog Manager issue.

That's taken care of (well, there's still a few rough edges I'm  
working on - particularly if you don't have a working Internet  
connection).

> For Acrobat (and Adobe Reader) we actually leave a process running  
> with
> no window so that we can reconnect to it if you double-click another
> PDF.  But I'd only go that route if the app start-up time is too slow.

So, if it's a "naked" process, how do you quit from it? Or do you just  
leave it in memory until logoff/restart?

Paul R.

>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Paul Rodman
>> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:13 AM
>> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
>> Subject: Re: [APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!
>>
>>
>> On Jun 14, 2008, at 18:41 , Mark Huss wrote:
>>
>>> hi Paul,
>>>
>>> You'll be greatly relieved to hear 'lucky 7' was the magic number
>>> here. :)
>>
>> No - it was fixing the bug on Friday 13th  :^)
>>
>> Actually, I'm not sure why your system didn't work. However, the
>> workaround should handle any situation.
>>
>>> Question: When I close the main window, the original dialog remains
>>> (open existing or new). Is this normal behavior?
>>
>> This is now standard behaviour, since there is no longer a "main
>> window" enclosing everything (i.e. plan documents). So when you close
>> the last window you have two options: close the entire app, or bring
>> up that dialog in order to keep going (since there's no longer any  
>> way
>> of communicating with the windowless app. Although the startup time  
>> is
>> quite snappy, I decided to do it that way. I could just let the
>> application quit when you close the last window.
>>
>> What says everyone?
>>
>> Note: Although it's probably a bit dodgy right now, I do plan to get
>> it working so that you can double click a plan document to open it.
>>
>> Paul R.
>>
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