[APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b80 released (Paul Rodman)

[Mark Huss]

One thing the new framework hasn't fixed, the installer still goes into 
lala land for five minutes on my machine before coming up. :/ It really 
is in limbo, doesn't show up in Task Manager even as a process.

On the 'good news' side, almost everything looks better (less flickering 
and crazy repainting). I have not run across any of the text issues you 
mention so far.

One new oddity, when the program comes up, it draws at a fixed smaller 
size, then resizes the horizontal dimension to the 'saved' size and 
repaints, then finally resizes the vertical dimension and repaints a 
third time.

Another oddity, when I exit the program, a small blank 'closing 
document' dialog appears, hangs for several seconds, even briefly 
showing a '(not responding)' message sometimes, before finally resizing 
appropriately and displaying the normal 'do you want to save your plan' 
dialog message. Also, once the final dialog is displayed I notice that 
the main window completely redraws in the background.

Both of these are 100% consistent over repeated tries.

(Windows 7 Ultimate x64, intel i5 processor on an ASUS motherboard with 
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT video.)

--mark

PS. Maybe 'Saint Steven of Cupertino' does have a valid point about 
using frameworks vs. writing directly to the underlying OS. But as I 
keep pointing out, the alternative is to have fewer programs available 
on your platform of choice, sigh.