[APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b65 released

[Paul Rodman]

The other possibility is the dreaded "bluetooth serial port delay on  
startup" problem. This might well explain the problem. That's still  
awaiting a compiler vendor fix.

Paul R.


On Oct 31, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Richard Hendrix wrote:

> No difference when I turn off Zonealarm.
>
> Have 100 objects in current plan opening. Tried smaller number of
> objects in plan and more objects and load time is the roughly same.
> Cursor turns to hour glass.
>
> Earlier versions, back about 3 or so, painted much, much faster for  
> me.
>
> --richard
>
> On Oct 31, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Richard Hendrix wrote:
>
>> 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.