It would be nice to be able to select or restrict the catalogues being searched when using the plan creation wizard.

Use Case: When preparing a plan to use at a Star Party, I wanted to generate a plan from only those catalogues built into Meade's AutoStar II database (LX200). This is far easier than looking up RA & Dec coordinates and entering those when 10 people are waiting at the scope!

Also could be used to generate AutoStar tours and, in general, when not using a laptop in the field.

Logical place would be the "Where & When" screen where restrictions on Date/Time and Constellation are entered.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.Telescope_Change( MainWindow.MainWindow )
2: Sub ResourceChooser.ResourceChooser.rsrc_Change( ResourceChooser.ResourceChooser )
3: Sub ResourcePopup.Event_Change()
4: Sub APPopupMenu.Event_Change()
5: Sub PopupMenu.ListIndex.Set( int32, int32 )
6: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.SetPopupValue( MainWindow.MainWindow, APPopupMenu, string )
7: Sub App.NewPlanCreationWizard( MainWindow.MainWindow )
8: Function App._FilePlanCreationWizard_Action() as boolean
9: Sub Delegate.Invoke()
10: Sub Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling()

User description of above error trace:

Creating a plan using New Plan Wizard

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub SkyChart.DrawAlignmentStars()
2: Function SkyChart.MakeChart() as Picture

User description of above error trace:

Sky Tab, Options menu on the right screen side, Objects, I checked the Allignement option and AP freezes dislaying this form inmediately. It does every time I performed this action.

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ResizeStuff( MainWindow.MainWindow )
2: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.Event_Resized( MainWindow.MainWindow )
3: Sub Window.Width.Set( int32, int32 )

When I try to do a conditional delete on a user-defined field, APv2b75 asks if I want to delete all 93 objects in the plan.

Conditional delete seems to work properly for AP defined fields.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub SkyComputeThread.Event_Run()
2: Sub APThread.Event_Run()

User description of above error trace:

Selected an object in a plan (with three objects) and clicked on the Sky tab and an application exception popped up. The Sky view does eventually come up.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow.SetSyntaxHighlighting( ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow )
2: Sub ScriptPrefsWindow.ScriptPrefsWindow.Event_Close( ScriptPrefsWindow.ScriptPrefsWindow )

User description of above error trace:

Opened script editor window, opened scripting preferences, closed underlying script editor window, closed script editor window.

The catalogue preference specifying where to put additional IDs when creating a plan object does not work properly.

If the user goes from registered to unregistered status (could happen if the user upgrades from V2 to V3*, or if the user registration info has been flagged as bogus), then there is a massive slowdown at startup time (that eventually clears itself if the app is allowed to continue).

The potenially very valuable script Focus Star contains two errors one in line 25 and one in line 210.

Whenever adding a new object if I just enter the catalog designation and then choose "Best", say Messier (M) and DO NOT add the number, it puts M7. For NGC, it is NGC 185, for IC, it is IC 49. I have not tested this on any other catalogs.

The SFR window always reopens slightly lower than it should. The Debug window reopens exactly where it should. Not sure if the SFR location is being stored incorrectly (in preferences) or an offset is being added for some reason.

Using PageUp or PageDown does not move the current cursor location (it should). Try using PageDown twice then LineDown once. The displayed text jumps back to where the cursor now is; one line down from its position prior to the two PageDown steps. The cursor should be someplace in the region of text displayed by the second PageDown.

If the SFR window is refreshed (e.g. by saving a lib_ file) any Find results are not preserved.

To be honest I find this occasionally useful for clearing out the Find results! Maybe a 'ClearFindResults' button :)

If the SFR window is too narrow the 'Changes' and 'Search' controls overlap. This fault has been around for ages - just got around to reporting it - Sorry!

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

1: Function Utility.WhatScreen( Window ) as int32
2: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ResizeStuff( MainWindow.MainWindow )
3: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.Event_Resized( MainWindow.MainWindow )

User description of above error trace:

Went through File\Setup Wizard and selected Finish (including download of catalogues)
Note: had blocked connection to Internet when going through wizard. Unblocked and selected catelogue to download. Finished wizard and received this error.

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ResizeStuff( MainWindow.MainWindow )
2: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.Event_Resized( MainWindow.MainWindow )

User description of above error trace:

Hit Windows+D to show desktop and crash report appeared.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Core i7 920, 6 GB RAM

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ResizeStuff( MainWindow.MainWindow )
2: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.Event_Resized( MainWindow.MainWindow )

User description of above error trace:

AP was open for a long time. I was browsing and a lot of other apps are open: maixm dll open office, skype, and firefox etc.
I needed to get back to the desktop because I saw something strange with my icons (a hole row on the second screen, which is weird)
Basically the same problem as I reported for version 72. (I fear continue will not work this time either)

Here is the diagnostic report:

Thread 7 Crashed:
0 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x009b802e MainWindow.MainWindow.DrawSkyInRect%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow>bo<Graphics>i4i4i4b + 63391
1 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x00c60e9e MainWindow.MainWindow.DrawSkyStuff%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow> + 10569
2 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x0098b9b9 MainWindow.MainWindow.RedrawSky%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow> + 2089
3 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x025c9e58 SkyComputeThread.Event_Run%%o<SkyComputeThread> + 240
4 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x028c3fec APThread.Event_Run%%o<APThread> + 99

Two different crashes when selecting the Sky tab in b74 for minor planet 4 Vesta:

1) NilObjectException, application must be shut down dialog from AP.

2) SIGBUS, crash into apple crash catcher:

Thread 6 Crashed:
0 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x009b802e MainWindow.MainWindow.DrawSkyInRect%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow>bo<Graphics>i4i4i4b + 63391
1 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x00c60e9e MainWindow.MainWindow.DrawSkyStuff%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow> + 10569
2 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x0098b9b9 MainWindow.MainWindow.RedrawSky%%o<MainWindow.MainWindow> + 2089
3 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x025c9e58 SkyComputeThread.Event_Run%%o<SkyComputeThread> + 240
4 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x028c400f APThread.Event_Run%%o<APThread> + 134

Select an existing script.
Click the ++ button.
In the New Script Name text box, type "Copy Name > ID".
Click OK.
Unhandled Nil object exception.

It's grayed out in the menu.
If you do the command-key-equivalent on Windows (cntrl-A), it selects the first plan object rather than all of them.

(Perhaps this code never got updated from the only-one-object-selected-at-a-time olden days?)

Should APCallable.DoubleToTime and APCallable.TimeToDouble be deprecated to the Date class?

In the Objects, show DSS image at the right of window , if the cursor is placed on a star which has more than 2 lines of text that appears in the description at the bottom of the image , only 2 and about 1/2 lines appears on the screen.

in the Objects screen, in the row that contains "lookup" ..... "sort list", "add special" , "delete"
When delete is selected , most of the delete commands appear to work , but with the "Delete CONDITIONALLY" , the window appears , the first 2 drop down boxes work, but when entering a value in the last box and the "Delete: button is not enabled and therefore it is impossible to perform the delete.

Destructor is missing from the list of autocomplete words. Will do a more systematic check later.

Just noticed in the plan document that the columns are justified a specific way.

Const is Centre justified whils ID and More Id's are Left justfied. Chart# is centre justified and is hard to read if you have a number of Charts selected.

Perhaps include an option to select the justification for each column individually.

A partial file extension is being displayed in the Scripting Framework window for a User library. The partial extension being displayed is '.apsc' (see attachment).

image shows: cannot open image xxxx, I tried several images same result.
V73

Paul - just loaded b73 and now all my DSS images won't show. In all plans I just get an error in the window saying cannot open image #[number]

They were there in 72

This is with Windows 7 64

Executed Focus Star and a window opened re debugging code left in script

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