[APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b80 released

[Owen Brazell]

Actually I have had the repaint problem for a long time even before b80.
This is also with Windows 7 64. The install did hang but then I am used to
that and just let it get on with it. It usually has something about a script
not working dialog which pops up. This does not happen when I launch the
downloaded exe rather than the Firefox download window.

Owen

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   1. Re: AstroPlanner V2.0b80 released (Paul Rodman) (Mark Huss)
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Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 12:49:21 -0400
From: Mark Huss <mark at mhuss.com>
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Subject: Re: [APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b80 released (Paul Rodman)
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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.


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Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 14:55:34 -0400
From: "Mike Wolford" <mwolford at ccrtcblue.com>
To: "'AstroPlanner Beta Testers'" <apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net>
Subject: Re: [APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b80 released (Paul Rodman)
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Mark,
First I'll say that I'm a believer in "default usually works"!  Having said
that...
In my "out of the box" HP, I don't have any of the "hang-ups" that you
mention.
I just downloaded and installed b80 in about two minutes.  I do see the
screen re-sizing, but it happens in less than a second.  I do get a dialog
box on closing that it is saving my document, but I only see it for a couple
of seconds.

Me thinks that you have gremlins!!!

Windows 7 Home Premium
AMD 9750 quad core
8GB RAM
64 bit

Mike



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