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

[Tim Brown]

I've had no problem and no slowdown on a win 7 64 bit system.  In fat it
flies.  Good luck.  

Tim Brown

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Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b80 released (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.
> 
> 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.)

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.

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