[APBeta] Looking Good

[Gary A. Ferguson]

1)     Long delays sometimes when activating AP.  If I leave AP running in
the background I sometimes get a long delay when I front one of the plans.
It’ll usually draw the top section of the window in white and then go away
for 30 or 60 seconds before drawing the rest of the window.  At least some
of this was caused by autosaves, but I still get it sometimes even after
turning that off.

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I don’t know what OS you’re using, but if you don’t use an app for awhile,
it could get swapped out, causing a delay in getting it back from the disk.
In Windows, it could very well be that only the plan data in memory gets
swapped, so that the app itself appears to re-activate quickly, but it takes
awhile to get the plan active.

 

Gary

 

From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
[mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:59 AM
To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
Subject: Re: [APBeta] Looking Good

 

I’ve also found the recent versions pretty useable.  I do get the odd crash
now and again, but I usually can’t reproduce it.  (It’s almost always after
AP has been running for days, so I wonder if it’s a memory leak or heap
corruption or something?)

 

While they don’t keep me from getting anything done, the two things I find
most annoying are:

 

2)     Odd window fronting.  Sometimes when I have one plan open and open
another, AP will front the back plan.  Other times, after AP has been
running for some time in the back ground with several plans open, I’ll bring
one plan to the front and AP will then bring one of the other plans in front
of it.

3)     Long delays sometimes when activating AP.  If I leave AP running in
the background I sometimes get a long delay when I front one of the plans.
It’ll usually draw the top section of the window in white and then go away
for 30 or 60 seconds before drawing the rest of the window.  At least some
of this was caused by autosaves, but I still get it sometimes even after
turning that off.

 

All in all, looking very good.

 

Cheers,

-- Jeff.

 

 

From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
[mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Paul Kemp
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:15 PM
To: AstroPlanner
Subject: [APBeta] Looking Good

 

At this stage I am finding APv2b66 pretty good. How are others finding it?

Still a fair bit of redrawing and screen flicker but we have seen this since
we we began testing it.

I am seeing a default font mismatch at the bottom of the objects tab and in
the Observation tab, image attached. What is the font that is being used by
default? Perhaps I can change the font in the preferences to match the one
Astroplanner is using.

Paul Kemp
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