[APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b65 released

[Paul Rodman]

On Oct 31, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Richard Hendrix wrote:

> Been playing around with the new version of AP. Good news first: FOV  
> to
> sky window works for me. Love the addition of the Found check box in  
> the
> columns, for some reason the new column did not reset my current
> columns.
>
> Not necessarily bad news: I would love to see a way to change the end
> time in the Observations tab. I would like to be able to manually set
> the end time.

Submit a "formal" enhancement request.

> Also the load time is BAD for me. Timing on the loading
> for the Objects Tabs, Obs Tab, FOV tab, and Sky Tab is about 40s from
> there it takes a 1 minute 7s  (total) for the Astroplanner logo, Lat,
> long GMT offset ect to load. This seems to have gotten much worse in  
> the
> last three releases or so. The 40s wait shows only a white screen.
> Running WinXP SP3 2g Ram 256vram for ATI Mobility Radeon X1300  
> graphics
> board.

I don't see that here (on XP or 7). There must be something else  
inhibiting performance. In fact I ran 2.0b65 on Win 7 this morning and  
was quite impressed by it's startup time (1-2 secs).

How many objects in the plan that's opening?

I don't have any virus/security software running. That's often the  
cause. Perhaps you can temporarily disable it and see if that improves  
matters.

> I still love AP always will! :-)

I'll try not to disappoint you then :^)

Paul R.