<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 11, 2009, at 01:55 PM, I.R. van de Stadt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hi Paul,<br>V32 is the first that works since V27 (after deleting the image db created by earlier versions). That's the only good news. It is so slow that I couldn't even file a bug report.<br><br>I've got a dutch XP SP2, but I use a decimal dot instead of the decimal comma.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>That would explain why it works for you.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">In the Image Manager I couldn't tick or untick the data sources in the 'Download images from these data sources' area in the Image preferences.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>I'll check that.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">It seemed that some images were shifted with respect to the target (they were the only option and downloaded for that target: Messier objects) others were correct.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>Some older images that were imported from your cache might be slightly off-centre. This was a side effect of the way I did things a few years back.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, with the new image database functionality, and image will be associated with an object if the object appears anywhere in the image, not just at the centre. e.g. an image centred on M81, but also showing M82, would be attached to both objects.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><br><br>AP is incredably slow even after restarting it.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>Are there any icons showing at the top right corner of the plan window? It sounds like there's a background thread at work.</div><div><br></div><div>I need to add some functionality to display thread activity, since it seems to be affecting some folk more than others.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Clear Skies!<br>Inge<br><br><br><br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paul@ilanga.com">paul@ilanga.com</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:apbeta@lists.astroplanner.net">apbeta@lists.astroplanner.net</a><br>> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:38:52 -0700<br>> Subject: [APBeta] Non-English format problems<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I have narrowed down some weird crashing problems to systems using non-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> English format settings (e.g. Image Manager does a hard crash on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> opening). I'm working on resolving these problems ASAP.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> By setting my Regional and Language Options control panel in Win Vista<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> to a non-English setting (e.g. Dutch) the problem occurs. Setting it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> back to English (USA) fixes things.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Paul R.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> APBeta mailing list<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:APBeta@lists.astroplanner.net">APBeta@lists.astroplanner.net</a><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net">http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net</a><br><br><hr>Heb jij de nieuwe Messenger nog niet?!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/windowslive/Views/productDetail.aspx?product=Messenger" target="_new">Download 'm hier</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>_______________________________________________<br>APBeta mailing list<br><a href="mailto:APBeta@lists.astroplanner.net">APBeta@lists.astroplanner.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net">http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>