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

[Jeff Young]

Paul --

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

Sadly, the later.   Which is one reason I don't recommend it unless it
can't be avoided.

(Note: you can of course kill it in the Task Manager, but I'd guess most
people don't know that.)

-- Jeff.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
[mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of
> Paul Rodman
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:24 PM
> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] 2.0a7 -- Hooray, it works!
> 
> 
> 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-----
> >> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
> > [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of
> >> 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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