[APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b28 released

[Paul Rodman]

On Mar 27, 2009, at 06:02 PM, Richard Hendrix wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> I downloaded this new version and noticed it takes about two minutes  
> or
> more to load now. The last version took less than 15 seconds.
>
> There seems to be something wrong with the window paint code. Every  
> time
> I touch the app it repaints all the items, Latitude Longitude GMT
> Offset, Local Date Local Time etc including all the visibility
> indicators too.
>
> When I click on an object the app takes about 10+ seconds to highlight
> that object. It seems to be running very slow to switch from the  
> Objects
> tab to the Sky tab.
>
> It takes about four minutes to close and then about two more minutes  
> for
> the Application Quitting Save Settings window to close. I never  
> noticed
> this before in the other releases.
>
> Running on Windows XP Media Center Edition SP3, Dell Inspiron laptop,
> Intel T1300 1.66GHz 2G RAM ATI Radeon X1300 Video card

It could be that the background task that loads the image cache into  
the database is slowing things down. Once that's finished, things  
should speed up. However, I'm only guessing here. Do you have a large  
number of downloaded/user images?

Paul R.