[APBeta] Catalogues

[Pep Ferrer]

Hi Paul,

I wish you good luck, I give you encouragement, are a great program.

Best regrads,
Jose


Paul Rodman escribió:
>
> On Nov 23, 2008, at 08:22 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2008, at 07:56 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
>>
>>> My guess* is to try using File->Catalogue Manager...
>>>
>>> Paul R.
>>>
>>> * I won't be able to check this until tomorrow.
>>
>> Actually, the missus just changed her mind, yet again, and I have the 
>> day off, so I'll check to see if this works.
>
> OK, there's a bug :^( AP V2 refuses to install UCAC2 or USNOA2 from 
> CD-ROM, claiming that the catalogues are only available on CD-ROM. I 
> guess I'll fix that for the next release.
>
> I spent many hours yesterday banging my head against the Windows 
> version. I'm now even more baffled than before. I removed 
> (temporarily) the Date/Time widget, and things improve slightly, but 
> I'm still getting mysterious crashes and exceptions. If I use the 
> debugger, everything works.
>
> I thought the 100%-reproducible crash-to-desktop you get when 
> displaying Saturn (don't bother, drawing planets doesn't work, but I 
> have fixed that) was a big smoking gun, but it's another Heisenbug 
> (trying to debug it makes the bug hop around or disappear). I thought 
> mebbe the compiler was cranking out bad code, since the crash happens 
> in the middle of some hairy math code. However, calling the same code 
> elsewhere works fine. I'm beginning to suspect some other code is 
> somehow corrupting the stack or memory. This should not happen, in 
> principle, with the IDE I'm using, but is. I will continue to pull my 
> hair out.
>
> A very frustrated,
>
> Paul R.
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