[APBeta] Report

Thu May 29 20:20:40 PDT 2008

Great report. Let me see if I can reproduce some of these problems  
before I respond.

Paul R.

On May 29, 2008, at 19:36 , Jeff Shy wrote:

> I am running at 1400 x 1050.  Several of the boxes at the top have  
> problems displaying all of the text.  For example, in the first box,  
> the last “e” is missing in Telescope.  Under SUN, “Twiligh” is  
> missing its final “t” and it isn’t tabbed in, its on the left  
> margin.  “Civil” is the last item in this list of times, therefore,  
> only four times are displayed.  “MOON” has part of the “N” missing,  
> “Phase” is missing the “e” and “:” and “Crescent” is missing half  
> the “n” and the “t”.  “Seeing” is missing part of the “g”.  The font  
> in the HighLight list box is smaller than the font in the Seeing  
> list box.  No site was listed despite the fact that I entered a  
> default site in the set up wizard.
>
> There were problems cutting off letters in the “Show Catalogue”,  
> Search Catalogue”, and “Add Special” pull down labels.  Similar  
> problems are apparent in the preferences dialogues and I suppose  
> other places as well.
>
> The Julian Date shows “Julian Date 245-“ in the first line and  
> 4616.56983 in the second (that doesn’t seem right).
>
> When I clicked on “Show Catalogue”, “Bright Star”, the catalogue  
> appeared and then immediately went behind the main window.  It was  
> easily retrieved by picking its icon bar at the bottom of the  
> screen.’’
>
> In the search dialogue, there “e” was missing from the end of “date/ 
> time”.  The last letters or part thereof were missing from some of  
> the lines just above that was well.
>
> After searching, the dialogue was once again hidden behind the main  
> screen.
>
> The site that I entered during the setup wizard seemed to have  
> gotten lost.
>
> Under the telescope tab in resources, the “computed parameters” list  
> box did not display its scroll bar until I clicked somewhere in the  
> box.
>
> Sometimes, when I click between the two telescopes that I entered,  
> the Focal Ratio, Aperture, Central Obstruction, and FOX appeard in  
> red rather than black.  I couldn’t find a pattern.  The central  
> obstruction was 0 for both telescopes.  I had not checked the visual  
> magnitude checkbox, but the visual magnitude display edit box looked  
> like there was an odd number (304563 or 804563) displayed on top of  
> the box (not actually in it since the number was longer than the  
> box) with a gray background.  Upon playing with this some more, it  
> appeared that the number in the box was 13.5304563 to 7 decimal  
> places.  This number is displayed for either telescope unless I  
> specifically click on the second telescope which correctly displays  
> its magnitude to 1 decimal digit.  The first telescope was an  
> ETX90EC and the second a LX200GPS 8”.  After playing with this some  
> more, it appears that both are now being displayed correctly with  
> one decimal digit.
>
> It would be great if eyepieces sorted by size rather than totally  
> alphabetically.  I think this could be more or less fixed by putting  
> a space in front of the smaller numbers.  For example, space 6.4.   
> That would cause it to sort before 12.4.
>
> How about adding the Denkmeirer binoviewer?
>
> The tabbing was kind of odd on the Observer’s tab, it did not follow  
> logically down the page.  I’m not sure what “Resource Name” is  
> supposed to be on this tab.  It prompts for “Observer #1” when the  
> Obeserver name is just below it.  I’m getting some red text in age,  
> latitude.  Longitude was selected while tabbing and now stays  
> selected even when I tab and select a different field.  Can we get  
> something worse than 20/40 on vision (I’m getting kind of old I  
> guess).
>
> I put junk in the latitude, longitude (letters) and it didn’t stop  
> me from doing so.  What are they for anyway?  I guess I need to re- 
> read the documentations somewhere, but I’m trying to play the dumb  
> user (and doing pretty well so far if I do say so myself).
>
> Created new observation from observation tab.  It did not pick up  
> the site, seeing or transparency form the top of the screen.
>
> There is a rather odd tab sequence on the observation tab.
>
> All of the resource items act as though they were one tab stop, I  
> would think they should be tabbed through.
>
> As I typed in notes on the observation tab, the while area under  
> “general” tab seemed to flash off quickly and then back on ever few  
> seconds.
>
> When I put in a second object, the “add to observation session” box  
> defaulted to “start a new session”.  I assume this is to log all  
> items I’m viewing during a single night.  It would seem that it  
> ought to default to ‘add to recent session”.  In fact, this box will  
> be very annoying if it comes up for every observation.  Perhaps it  
> should only come up if the date is different than the last date.
>
> After clicking add to the session, there was nothing created in the  
> observation data boxes, i.e., nothing happened.
>
> This observation tab did not seem to be operating correctly.  Its  
> late, I’ll try some more tomorrow.
>
> Jeff
>
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