[APBeta] Non-English format problems

Mon Apr 13 02:23:59 PDT 2009

Hi Paul,
Sure, I'll wait (I'm still impressed with V2)
Cheers,
Inge

From: paul at ilanga.com
To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:26:02 -0700
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Non-English format problems

Unfortunately, it's tricky to figure out how many images I will need to read in, in order to provide some form of progress indicator. However, I will attempt to do this so that you have some idea of how far the process has gone.
You might end up having to delete your image database and let the system rebuild it from scratch. If you want to wait for V2.0b33, I will add the above functionality.
Paul R.
On Apr 12, 2009, at 07:03 PM, I.R. van de Stadt wrote:OK, I left AP doing its thing for over 5 hours. No luck, the image icon is still there and it is just as slow as when it started.
Sorry about that.
Clear Skies!
Inge

From: irvandestadt at hotmail.com
To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:22:57 +0200
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Non-English format problems

True, I've got about 0.9 Gig of cached images

I've haven't timed, but it might have been for hours: I'll try again.
Thanks again, Paul,
Inge

From: paul at ilanga.com
To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:45:54 -0700
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Non-English format problems

On Apr 11, 2009, at 07:40 PM, I.R. van de Stadt wrote:Yep, it's just a few images that are/were a bit offset, not a problem.

There is a blue icon (with the text image) at the top right.
That means there's a background thread busy building your image database. I take it you have a lot of cached images?

Every time I select a different object the whole of the gui is rebuilded (not just the image at the right side), maybe that slows things down unnecassary?
That could just be the background image thread taking up a lot of processor time. Just leave it to process until the blue "Image" icon goes away, then you should be OK. Of course, if it has been like this for hours, maybe something else is afoot.
Paul R.

Thanks for your quick reply
Inge
From: paul at ilanga.com
To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:25:31 -0700
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Non-English format problems

On Apr 11, 2009, at 01:55 PM, I.R. van de Stadt wrote:Hi Paul,
V32 is the first that works since V27 (after deleting the image db created by earlier versions). That's the only good news. It is so slow that I couldn't even file a bug report.

I've got a dutch XP SP2, but I use a decimal dot instead of the decimal comma.
That would explain why it works for you.

In the Image Manager I couldn't tick or untick the data sources in the 'Download images from these data sources' area in the Image preferences.
I'll check that.
It seemed that some images were shifted with respect to the target (they were the only option and downloaded for that target: Messier objects) others were correct.
Some older images that were imported from your cache might be slightly off-centre. This was a side effect of the way I did things a few years back.
Also, with the new image database functionality, and image will be associated with an object if the object appears anywhere in the image, not just at the centre. e.g. an image centred on M81, but also showing M82, would be attached to both objects.

AP is incredably slow even after restarting it.
Are there any icons showing at the top right corner of the plan window? It sounds like there's a background thread at work.
I need to add some functionality to display thread activity, since it seems to be affecting some folk more than others.
Paul R.

Clear Skies!
Inge

> From: paul at ilanga.com
> To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:38:52 -0700
> Subject: [APBeta] Non-English format problems
> 
> I have narrowed down some weird crashing problems to systems using non- 
> English format settings (e.g. Image Manager does a hard crash on 
> opening). I'm working on resolving these problems ASAP.
> 
> By setting my Regional and Language Options control panel in Win Vista 
> to a non-English setting (e.g. Dutch) the problem occurs. Setting it 
> back to English (USA) fixes things.
> 
> Paul R.
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