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

[Paul Rodman]

On May 9, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Mark Huss wrote:

> 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.

The installer is a third-party one. I'm using the latest version (I think) and the installation process does nothing out of the ordinary. i.e. Darned if I know what's wrong.

> 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.

This is to avoid a potential Windows stack overflow problem that was plaguing users before. Although the solution is not optimal, it does fix the problem. I will attempt to find a better solution in the future, but it's low on my list of priorities right now.

> 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.
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> Both of these are 100% consistent over repeated tries.
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> (Windows 7 Ultimate x64, intel i5 processor on an ASUS motherboard with nVidia GeForce 9500 GT video.)

Windows 64 appears to be a sparsely-populated minefield. Have you tried setting AP to use the Win XP compatibility mode? That might, or might not, help.

Paul R.