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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

2
HR2199

Implement a help system.

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

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

User description of above error trace:

i did a update to V2.0b72. under Vista 32bits and after that i started atroplanner and i got this error.
When select [Continue] the program stops.
Installing a lower version of astroplanner everthings works ok.

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

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

User description of above error trace:

I tried to continue after my previous bugreport, but have no luck apparently

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 )


User description of above error trace:

Minimizing the window with Windows Key +M.

In that E-mail I couldn't trace the error, but I was trying to get to the desktop when it happened.


User description of above error trace:

I was opening CCDNavigator 2 in Vista 64


User description of above error trace:

ah, going to the desktop again

I'm not sure if it doesn't have any in the dictionary, or just not very many. If it doesn't have any, it might be best just to pass them in as two separate words.

Anyway, it's currently tripping up on things such as:

well-condensed
semi-stellar
crown-pleaser
well-defined

(Note that separating the input into two words won't catch where someone uses a hyphen and shouldn't, such as "non-descript". Perhaps you could pass the word in first with the hyphen, and if one of the suggestions is the same text without the hyphen, then present those. If not, then throw out the results and re-run it as two separate words?)

Access to the Random class. Particularly as the Random class now supercedes the Rnd function.

If you drag the main window to the left or right sides of the screen in Windows 7, Aero Snap will automatically make the window take half the screen. This currently works on the main Astroplanner window, and it completely destroys the layout. Many fields disappear (can't be accessed), even those that should be visible.

Since you can't change the size of the Astroplanner window below a minimum threshold and shape, I'd guess that Astroplanner is not intended to be used with Aero Snap.

When adding a double-star object (e.g. hj1000) by clicking the [+] button at bottom left, the only possibility is to add empty object. Adding an empty object, then looking up the object you were looking for in the first place does work.

Slew to park (and disconnect) no longer freezes AP, but it still does not work. When I clicked on it in the Telescope Palette, I got a message saying it could not slew to park position (alt = 0deg, az = 180deg) because it was below the horizon. I then used to handbox to park the scope in that very position.

I am polar mounted. Could that confuse AP2? It does not confuse AP1.6.1.

File--export--Nexremote tour... generates a .hct file which I use for my Nexremote software to choose and slew to the selected objects.
But any objects that are located in a "plus" DEC the scope slews somewhere else than the correct target. In V1 the .hct file (via a script) has the DEC printed out as a "+" or a "-"
like the Dec column in Objects. V1 works just fine.
In V 2.0b71 the exported .hct file has a "-" but no "+" in front of the value for DEC.
When I put a "+" in front of a positive value the scope slews to the proper position.

When all data from JPL are downloaded (or displayed from the cache), you can choose which parameter you want to change, but you can't enter any values. Upon trying the AP no longer corresponds and turns grey or white. It doesn't crash, but when returned to speaking terms nothing has changed.

Cannot add text into Object notes in Observations tab

I have the following sessions:
20091229
20100105
20100108
20100109
20100112

In the Observation Database I select File → Print. The Printing script is Default and the Task is Session and Observation data. When I print this out, I get all the data but it is not in order.

20100109
20100108
20100105
20091229
20100112

Finally, attachments are not being printed.

Changing the x-axis to the Time of Night in the Long Term Visibility Indicator (lovely feature!) produces a black band during the period that in reality there is no astronomical darkness anymore at my site, which would mean all day darkness.

I reported earlier that clicking the "+" button in the spell checker window effectively ended the spell checking. Turns out this is only true if you have in-line spell checking turned on; without it everything works fine.

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub MagicSpeller.addWord( string )
2: Sub MagicSpellerInterfaceWnd.MagicSpellerInterfaceWnd.addBtn_Action( MagicSpellerInterfaceWnd.MagicSpellerInterfaceWnd )

User description of above error trace:

Added a new word to the spell checker dictionary, then quit app.

I think I logged this before, but it was probably in a long list of things, so it may have gotten lost.

Add an object to a plan for C/2007 N3 Lulin. Give it the ID "C/2007 N3" (with a space between the 7 and the N), and the name "Lulin".

Add an observation and a user image. Note that you don't get an image icon in the Objects list.

Change the name to "C/2007N3" (delete the space).

Now you get an image icon.

Switch to Observations tab.

While the list says it still has 1 observation, you don't see it listed in the Observations list. If you put the space back in the name, your observations come back but your image is gone again.

When I download an image I don't see the image in the downloading-window, only later in the objects-window.

The image display window does not recognise the "invert image colours" contextual menu item. Neither does the image manager window, and does not have the contextual menu item.

Add the ability to share an AP installation (i.e. resources, images, etc.) between two OSes (in this case either a 32-bit or a 64-bit Windows boot).

Exception Type: Type Mismatch Exception

1: Function MagicSpellerTA.Event_ContextualMenuAction( MenuItem ) as boolean
2: Sub Delegate.Invoke()
3: Sub Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling()

User description of above error trace:

a. Trying to cut text from Observation notes and paste into Object notes in Observations tab

b. When trying to do a spell check under Observation Notes under the Observation tab.

User description of above error trace:

I'm trying to create an object (minor planet) - to find another approach to the JPL import using the catch.
I could create an empty object and past in the ID number, but trying to paste in the name gives this exception


User description of above error trace:

right-click EDIT in Notes don't work

I entered the following into the Seeing custom scale.

5 - Excellent
4 - Good
3 - Average
2 - Poor
1 - Bad

The dropdown shows:

Unknown
5 - Excellent4 - Good3 - Average2 - Poor1 - Bad
---

The options I entered are not on individual lines.

Be able to copy RA/Dec coords (e.g. "13 10 56.5 +11 28 39") from another text document onto the clipboard, and create a new object with those coordinates.

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Function App.LookupIDSynonyms( PlanObservation ) as string()
2: Function ObservationDatabase.GetGUID( PlanObservation ) as int32
3: Function ObservationDatabase.FixupSynonyms( boolean ) as boolean

User description of above error trace:

Selected "Reset Cross-References" in the Observation Settings and let the application run throughout the night. In the morning I found this Exception.

When I'm downloading a series of images for a plan and then minimize the download window, I would like to be able to see the progress percentage in the minimized bar(?). Then I can continue working on the plan and know when the download is complete without having to go back and keep opening the download window.

Since the print preview window does not use either the horizontal or vertical scrollbars (page images are shrunk to fit the window), get rid of the horizontal scrollbar and use the vertical scrollbar to move between pages, rather than using the annoying page number widget currently used.

When I select Display→Custom Reticles, I see reticles boundary according to selected telescope focal length. I want see reticle boundaries for different focal lengths at one time very often. This is typical situation for Main camera and Guide Camera. You could specify Telescope in the Custom reticles window. If a telescope is specified we use focal length of this telescope. If not specified - assume the main telescope (specified for the FOV chart).

Problem is with decimal separator.
If I use "." all is ok(15.7 →15.7). If I use "," only int part saved (15,7 → 15).
During custom reticles editing all numbers showed with "," like separator.

As result we have:
1.Edit reticle.
2.Input 15.7.
3."Ok"
4.Edit reticle.
5.See 15,7.
6."Ok" (size of reticle on FOV window change)
7.Edit reticle.
8.See 15.

Today I have had two occasions where a UDF script has generated an exception error dialogue and an 'APSemaphore' timeout message in the Debugging window. Both occurred during a scheduled Object list redraw ('Re-sort dynamic columns every 30 sec' is checked).

There have also been two other occasions when AP has crashed to desktop with no error messages or logs of any kind.

Still getting 'APSemaphore from UserFieldLock timed out'.

Exception Type: Out Of Memory Exception

1: Sub Picture.Constructor( int32, int32, int32 )
2: Function ImageFITSConversionThread.Convert() as boolean
3: Sub ImageFITSConversionThread.Event_Run()
4: Sub APThread.Event_Run()

Exporting observations in a single session works fine when exporting them as an Excel file. Exporting the session as an AstroPlanner .obs file doesn't. The attached screenshots shows the number of observations in the session which AP plans to export does not match the actual number of observations made in the session.
As the screenshots also shows, I logged observations on both the 15th and 16th of November. Both sessions lasted past midnight. I was able to succesfully export the session of the 15th as there was no session closely preceding it, nor a session following it. Now with a session present for the 16th I am no long able to export the session correctly.

Given a set of observations selected in the Observation database window, allow the creation of a new plan containing a set of objects representing those observations.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ObjectList_MenuAction( MainWindow.MainWindow, string, string )
2: Function StripedListBox.ServiceMenu( MenuItem ) as boolean
3: Sub StripedListBox.MakeContextualMenu( int32, int32 )

User description of above error trace:

While attempting to search a catalog using the context menu item: "Lookup Name" (right-click within the Objects List), this Nil Object Exception was evoked.

I'm not sure that this is a bug, but, as I was culling an object list, I opened Image Manager so I could delete images as I deleted the objects from the list. When the plan window was in front, I went up to Window in the main menu to choose the Image Manager, but it was not on the list. I then clicked Image Manager under Image, and it appeared just as I had left it, i.e. open to NGC objects.

By the way, I just found that the same is true for the Bug Report window. Maybe these are special windows that will not show up on the Window list?

WEBDA Link and SEDS Link fields were created with the scripts and I had also an E(B-V) field created and displayed as a column in the Objects tab.
When I then changed the order by editing the User Fields, the content of the SEDS Link was displayed in the E(B-V) column.

The problem is corrected by rerunning the SEDS script or by saving the plan, closing and reloading it.

Switched Objects to to FoV tab, got runtime error as per attached screenshot.

I put APv2b69 through its telescope control paces on my Meade LX200GPS and everything worked fine, except "Slew to home". When I clicked "Slew to home" my computer locked up, as it has on previous versions.

Run a script which generates a list window with the object type in one column. Have the list originally sort on one of the other columns.

Click on the Type column heading. It shows the little up-arrow to show sorting, but doesn't sort. Click on the Type column again, and the down-arrow appears and the list does sort.

It's not just the first click -- clicking on, say, Name sorts the first time. And if you go back and click on Type a 3rd time (back to the up-arrow), it doesn't change the sorting (the rows are still sorted in reverse alphabetical order).

Hard crash when opening script edit window if observation database window is at the front.

V1 User defined fields in the Observations tab are not displayed unless/until a field named identically to the V1 field is added, or when a completely new field is added.

Add ability to copy selected rows in a listbox to the clipboard (as tab-separated text)

I set the option "Closing last plan document Closes other windows and displays a menu."

When I closed the last document, a menu was indeed displayed, but it was inoperable. I had to closing the app and restart it to be able to open another plan.

AP hard crashed after I downloaded multiple (5) user contrib plans and checked check box to close plans after downloading. No AP error report.

Again....
Downloaded the new update (2.0.0b69) through the software - NOT THE WEBSITE

When I closed the application to run the update, received the usual "AP Quit Unexpectedly" with the option to close or reopen. Here were the details that were going to be sent to Apple (although I report stuff like this - maybe I should).

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 ??? 0xd4a58b00 0 + 3567618816
1 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x00174dc4 RuntimeCustomControlDestructor + 56
2 com.ilanga.AstroPlanner 0x001a2d78 BevelButton.__exit%%o<BevelButton> + 56
.....

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub Listbox.CellTag( int32, int32 )
2: Function UserFieldListBox.Event_DragOver( int32, int32, DragItem, int32 ) as boolean

User description of above error trace:

I was cleaning up (deleting files) from my Downloads folder when this "unexpected error condition" dialog popped up on screen. AstroPlanner was, and remains, open, but it was at the time, and contiues to sit idle in the background. Current project not saved. Though I have copied the v2 app from the .dmg, and am running from the hard disk (applications folder), the latter (.dmg) was one of the files placed into the trash. Other apps sharing space in memory with AP include Apple Mail, and Safari.

I went to add a minor planet with new orbital elaments and this debug window appeared.
I copied the datat - here it is


4.9146305 5.7248867
4.9146305 5.7248867
4.9065365 5.6692088
4.9167325 5.7386093
...
4.9146317 5.7248949

On the Objects tab there's a Type textbox down at the bottom. If I click on the little pull-right menu to the right and chose a different type, it appends it so that I now have two types. I almost always want to replace.

I have been creating an imaging list in APv2b69 and have noticed some odd behavior in the object list. One that seems to be reproducible is the following: When I delete and object from the list, the blue selection highlight moves down to the next object, but all the information in the boxes below below the list (ID, Name, RA, Dec, etc) does not change, i.e. the info for the deleted object remains in the boxes. I checked earlier betas and this behavior occurs in them also.

Another odd behavior is that under certain circumstances an object disappears from the list, and I think the two are connected.

Here is the sequence of actions that gets an object to disappear:
1. Delete an object (note: the info on the object is still in the boxes below the list, i.e. 1st odd behavior)
2. Blue selection highlight moves down to next object.
3. Click on a user defined field and enter a value for that object.
4. Object that was just deleted replaces the highlighted object, i.e. highlighted object disappears and deleted object reappears.

In the objects/planner sheet the tooltips for User-defined fields are shown correctly in the user-defined fields area.

However in the actual Objects sheet the default tooltips for the relevant user fields are shown and not the actual user defined tooltips

After running AP for about ten minutes yesterday I got a Debug window that opened up. If I closed the window the program itself closed. Attached is the debug text file it generated.

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub Dictionary.Key( int32 )
2: Function PlanObservation.UserTitle( int32 ) as string
3: Sub ObservationWindow.ObservationWindow.ObsFindAndReplace( ObservationWindow.ObservationWindow )

User description of above error trace:

Used "Find and replace" in the observation database for all ("select all") observations in a single session. Chose to replace an empty field ("Seeing", a user defined field) with a value. Since none of the observations logged contained a value in this field AP did not allow me to replace these empty fields with a numerical value, that value being "5". Chose to insert a single space into the field to be replaced. Hit ENTER and got this error condition.

It's over to the right with the title bar just above the top of the screen. I can get to the menu, but not to the close box.

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub Listbox.CellTag( int32, int32 )
2: Function UserFieldListBox.Event_DragOver( int32, int32, DragItem, int32 ) as boolean

User description of above error trace:

Dragging a group of objects from one plan to another.

Add direct support for Carina's SkyFi (serial over TCP/IP).
(link)

A recent feature, added to the script editor widget, is to highlight code blocks when the cursor is in the gutter. I find this particularly annoying, so a way to switch it off would be nice.

After downloading an image it is not immediately shown in the FoV-image-screen straight away when using the Images button in the FoV tab.
This in contrary to doing it through 'show images' from the context menu (in the Objects tab)

Version: 2.0b53
Expires: 07/09/2009
Date: 22/08/2009 0:47:39
Debug: DelegatingTimer removalTimer
OS: WinVista

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Function MemoryBlock.UInt32Value( int32 ) as uint32
2: Function ImageDatabase.Image( int32 ) as Picture
3: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.DSSPicture_Paint( MainWindow.MainWindow, Graphics )
4: Sub Delegate.Invoke()
5: Sub Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling()

The app name is "skychart.exe", not "ciel.exe".

The F3 function key doesn't seem to be hooked up to find-next.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub GeneralPreferencesWindow.GeneralPreferencesWindow.smtp_Error( GeneralPreferencesWindow.GeneralPreferencesWindow, string )
2: Sub APSMTPSocket.Event_Error()
3: Sub Delegate.Invoke()
4: Sub Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling()

User description of above error trace:

Updated web preferences to use smtp port 2525, then clicked test, then exited the prefernces dialog.

With 'Show deprecated methods' checked, but no deprecated methods are found the deprecated methods window should be displayed with text something like 'No deprecated items found'.

Get raw item(31) not implemented for telescope driver, similar for (32)
Background AP error screen "APSemaphore from telescopeMount timed out

HEQ5pro ( Celestron NexStar 5/8) mount.

SynScan-based mount not functioning with native Nexstar driver (The Orion Synscan option uses the Nexstar driver - ed.)

Exception Type: I/O Exception

1: Sub BinaryStream.CheckForError()
2: Sub BinaryStream.Position.Set( int32, uint64 )
3: Function Catalogue.GetFieldDataAsString( int32 ) as string
4: Function Catalogue.MakeCatalogueFind( int32 ) as CatalogueFind

User description of above error trace:

a. trying to draw filed of view for object. This is Windows 7 64 bit

b. Download new 67 version. Opened Field of view. Got two error ...something long that had Universal in the description. Options allowed me to hit button CONTINUE which I did. Got Application exception error.

User description of above error trace:

This seems to happen every time I click on the USNO catalog in the FOV tab

I have noticed the following issues with regard to the user defined tool tips:

On Objects page I have 5 user defined fields and the tool tips are either

i) one above where they should be
ii) one below where they should be, or
ii) do not appear at all

The same problems as above occur for user defined fields for Observations Sessions and Observation Notes

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub CMMCommon.ConstructContextualMenu( MenuItem, CMM() )
2: Function CMMTreeView.Event_ConstructContextualMenu( MenuItem, int32, int32 ) as boolean

User description of above error trace:

I just tried to download a script

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub CMMCommon.ConstructContextualMenu( MenuItem, CMM() )
2: Function CMMTreeView.Event_ConstructContextualMenu( MenuItem, int32, int32 ) as boolean

User description of above error trace:

Had the "Download User-Contributed Plans" dialog open. Expanded the "My Plans" entry. Right-clicked on one of the plans.

If you put IDs into a List window column and click on the header to sort that column, the order is lexicographical, not numeric. e.g. if the column contains Messier IDs, the the ascending ordering is: M1,M10,M11, etc.

Commenting and uncommenting blocks of code results in that block gaining an extra end-of-line for each line. Steps to reproduce:

1: Highlight a block of text
2: Use Script → Comment/Uncomment to comment the block
3: Use Script → Comment/Uncomment to uncomment the block
4: Save the script
5: Reload the script
6: Block of text has extra blank lines following each line of the original block

I'm not certain where in these steps the extra blank lines are inserted.

In the observations tab include an adjustable width splitter widget between the Observation notes window and the User fields window. There is already a splitter widget between the User fields in the session area and the "Name" window and this works well.

At present the if there is a lot of text in the User fields area it "disappears" at the right side and can't be adjusted.

Currently it is possible to upload a script or plan with someone else's name as the author. This is a problem, since the named author cannot delete or overwrite the script/plan. The script/plan should have the registered owner's name enforced.

Auto-indenting of property 'end set' and 'end get' statements is not working.

During startup the AP window loses focus. This happens whilst the object list is being drawn for the first time. The result is that only the first few (8-12) objects are displayed. Then the window loses focus and something in the background stops doing its thing. Once I click on the window (to restore focus) the object list is completed.

Having the UDF access buttons active in the list column for files, URL, etc. would be really, really nice.

Whenever the script window is opened or the scipt download feature is used, check to see if any of the previously downloaded scripts were updated. Possibly add a script preference to determine when this is done.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow.LoadScript( ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow )
2: Sub ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow.ScriptList_Change( ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow )
3: Sub Listbox.ListIndex.Set( int32, int32 )
4: Sub ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow.Setup( ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow, string )
5: Sub ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow.Event_Open( ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow )
6: Sub Window.Constructor()
7: Function ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow.Get( boolean ) as ScriptWindow.ScriptWindow
8: Function App._ScriptEditScripts_Action() as boolean
9: Sub Delegate.Invoke()
10: Sub Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling()


User description of above error trace:

Just clicked on the Script menu (after resizing the AP window)???

Having some fun opening an SFR window, renaming a named prefix file to another named prefix file (e.g. lib_file to prefix_file) and opening another SFR window. This does not cause anything bad to happen. You just end up the first SFR window referencing a file that no longer exists! Perhaps any open SFR windows should be refreshed when a script is renamed or deleted (haven't tried adding - yet!). Personally I wouldn't like to see a restriction of having only one SFR window open at a time. I frequently have two or three open when I'm cross-checking and hunting for stuff.

I have a named prefix file containing two classes, one is a subclass, the other isn't. Methods for the subclassed class do not show in the SFR, methods for the other (non-subclassed) do.

In the attached script, APGraph is subclassed to Canvas and wombat is an ordinary class.





Attachment: prefix_GraphLib.txt

sub main()
dim d as new Dialog
d.StringParameter (false, "Caption", "v", true) //T = UE, F = OK
call d.Show("Test")
end sub

Changing the multiline boolean to False suppresses the unhandled exception
error.

Since many "Visual Aids" are not really used for visual observing (e.g. Field flatteners, focal length reducers, etc.), change the name of "Visual Aid" to "Optical Aid" throughout the application.

When a telescope connection fails the edit button (Pencil) goes away and is replaced with a grayed out "Slew to Object" button.

Since the telescope is not connected the expected behavior would be for the edit button to remain in place so that the user can edit the connection parameters for the telescope. Or that the "Slew to Object" button is only visible when you are successfully connected to a telescope.

Pasted the following string: +46°53'56" into the Dec field of a new object, and AP correctly separated out the +46, but stuck all the rest in the minutes field (including the ' and " characters).

I am not sure if this has been reported or not. I receive the following error message when attempting to print the observation database: "Cannot Run Script>Prefix Script Missing Default" Running 2.0b53 under XP/SP3.

Add chart numbering for the Great Atlas of the Sky.
(link)

Solar system object coordinates are computed as geocentric rather than topocentric. This has little effect for most objects, but the moon position (and rise/set/alt, etc.) can be wrong by as much as a degree.

In a prefix file I have a class (APGraph) that inherits Canvas.

When double-clicking on a Const (declared in this class) in the SFR window I get "APGraph - Subclass of: Canvas.graph_SymbolCircle" inserted in the script editor window. Shouldn't I get something like "APGraph.graph_SymbolCircle"?

Your Moon Age is 1 day less than reality
Illumination is 2% less
amd alt is 1degee greater

Rise and set times are correct

Is the menu bar serving any useful purpose?

When choosing "Show constellation in FoV" from the Object Menu makes an window pop up with all constellations. No constellation is selected, so it seems the you have to choose one yourself. However in reality the constellation of the selected object will show up in the FoV.

Hence the intermediate window could be skipped or changing your mind about the constellation should be possible

I would have expected the option "Show constellation in FoV" in the context menu (right click on the object) under Others for instance

Maybe if you choose "Show constellation in FoV" from the Object menu the intermediate window and being able to make your chose there would be nice, and the one from the context menu going to the constellation of the selected object immediately would be a nice solution.

Tooltip field for user-defined fields?

There does not seem to be a consensus as to the orientation of NGC247. Herschel and Caldwell have it rotated 90deg from how Herschel-I, NGC, and AP DSO have it oriented.

On the telescope resources tab, in the list of resources, there is a checkbox which indicates whether a particular resource should be included in the dropdown list of resources for places where the list is used. One place this is used is to indicate the finderscope for a telescope resource. In order to choose a telescope resource as a finderscope, the checkbox must be checked. But this means the finderscope will also show up as a telescope in the telescope dropdown list on the main window, which I feel unnecessarily clutters this list if you have a finderscope on every telescope.

I request that the checkbox apply only to lists presented outside of the resources dialog, and that within the dialog, every defined resource is listed, regardless of the state of the checkbox. This would allow one to define all finderscopes and use them in other resources, but not have them show up on the main UI.

After entering information one item per line in the user defined fields 'edit' area the choices after you click on them appear as horizontal line and not a vertical choice line.

You cannot select anything because the first choice entered is always the one selected.

Defined a UDF as:
Title: Test
Type: Choice
Choices: A1
B2
C3

Clicking on the field displays:

A1[]B2[]C3

where [] = square character (probably representing an unprintable character.

A1 is entered into the Value column. Something, possibly B2, appears briefly in blue at the bottom of the Field column.

1: Select one or more object/s (object highlighted in blue)
2: Edit the list columns (Ctrl-K)
3: Close the list column editor
4: Object selection is lost

Should object selection be retained in this case?

When I use a plan with sequence numbers, it opens with numbers in the correct order. However, if I sort on another column and then resort on the Seq# column I'll get a sort like: 1, 10, 100, 101, etc.

Version: 2.0b46
Expires: 8/9/2009
Date: 7/11/2009 2:44:59 PM
OS: WinVista

Exception Type: Type Mismatch Exception

1: Sub SkyOptions.SkyOptions.SelectNode( SkyOptions.SkyOptions, TreeViewNode )
2: Sub SkyOptions.SkyOptions.tree_SelectionChanged( SkyOptions.SkyOptions )
3: Sub Delegate.Invoke()
4: Sub Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling()



User description of above error trace:

I was toying with the settings in the Display Options Box. I had turned on the alignment stars, then toggled them off when this box popped up.

Note that this is a fresh Win 7 install, so the problem could be entirely on this end...

The east and west labels are flipped (east on the right, west on the left) in the Alt/Az graphic -- but the compass needle still points like it used to in 1.6 (e.g., the needle points to the left for 90°).

I started up APv2b65, clicked on the Sky Window (worked fine) and then clicked on the FOV window. AP did nothing for a few seconds and then crashed. I will send you the crash report by direct email.

I have not been able to get it to crash again, with the same or any other click sequence, so it could be a fluke.

Rotating FoV with images displays dark artifacts.

Deleting an observation does not delete any (internally stored) attachments to that observation.

It's still pretty difficult to type into the observation notes on the Observations tab. I think the update to the global database is the cause (I have in-line spell checking turned off).

It seems to refresh on every delete (making in-line typing corrections difficult), and otherwise on every word or so. Perhaps it could only update if the keyboard has been quiet for 10 seconds or something?

I had the Global Observations window open, and was copying some data from it into a new observation in an open plan document.

However, each time I switched between windows, AP would change the selection in the Global Observations. I started out with all sessions selected, and AP would drop the selection to the oldest session. I then selected just the session I needed, and AP would leave that alone but drop the selection in the Observations list to the first observations of that session.

The Seeing/Transparency boxes are not wide enough to show all my data (I use the bortle scale with a description for Transparency). Is it possible to have some with adjustment?

I would like to have user-defined fields with user-specified drop down menus, sothe I could have, for example, a dropdown for NELM (ZLM) or lunar phase

If possible it would be good to have another adjustable horizontal separator bar between 'File Path' and 'Description'. This would allow the user to shrink the area used by the Attachment list and extend the area for 'Description' and the UDF list.

The telescope Sync to Object button seems to be missing.

Implement Vixen Star Book mount driver

Using Windows 7 x64 and AP 2 b66 the tool tips over columns does not seem to be working. I assume this should work for generic columns and you just place your mouse cursor over the column title?

I can hover but see nothing

Make it a bit more obvious that the FoV is currently rotated, i.e. the FoV Rotation is non-zero.

If you change the font face of size using the Preferences, General tab, the font face/size of many UI elements changes immediatedly. However, the textboxes in the Date/Time box (where the "fix Date" checkbox is, I'm not sure what to call that UI element) do not change until the next time AP is restarted.

Add some explanatory text for the various columns in the object list.

The downarrow symbol next to "Guides " is overlapping it

In the event that external catalogues are not found, give the user the option to ignore the AP request to reset the paths to defaults.

I turned my LAN switch off to move it at just the wrong time - of course!

Much simpler option: Insert clause into licence that AP is not to be used by total dorks!!!

I'm fairly certain more fields than just the URL field are not being saved correctly. Seem to have the same problem with the Clock Offset field.

A minor one: Both the Telescope and Site drop downs seems to be overlapped by ("grey window background", for lack of a better description) as per attached screenshot.

DSS images in FoV show rotation w.r.t. catalogue stars. This appears to be anywhere up to a degree or two.

If an observation is created using UT should the Start, End and Name times also be UT?

The warning of a bad catalogue only needs to appear once when AP is started. With v2b65 the warning appears several times when using the Catalogue Manager. The may be an argument for keeping one warning when starting the Catalogue Manager - maybe.

Add the ability to draw a line at a given altitude on the Sky chart

For a given Air Mass (say 2), draw a line at the altitude at which this airmass occurs.

When a telescope is deleted from the list of telescopes, it will reappear after a restart of AP.

I have USNO-A2 installed (it appears in the Inventory.txt file) but the Catalogue Manager does not recognise it as installed.

If I put the USNOA2 disk in, start the CatManager, say I have disk in place and select the 'CD/DVD-ROM' radio button I can see that the USNOA2 catalogue files are installed. With the 'On-line' radio button selected, USNOA2*.apcat is shown as not installed.

Having some UDF fields for a Plan document (note: NOT per object) would be useful to me. The biggest problem, I think, would be where to put them. GetInfo dialogue?

This is a very popular imager since it's given away for free with most Meade scopes. Details can be found at (link)

After adding a user image (using Object context menu) the image is not displayed (image area is blank) until the object is re-selected.

I can reliably repeat this with FITS images. With JPG, I can get it to fail by giving bad FoV info.

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub PopupMenu.RowTag( int32 )
2: Function MainWindow.MainWindow.DSSPicture_GetPicture( MainWindow.MainWindow ) as Picture

User description of above error trace:

Addition to #3167. Added a user image to an object. Image did not show up in image area. Right-clicked in image area in attempt to get context menu. Crash.

Affects Observers and Imagers tabs. The three buttons (bottom left corner) for adding, deleting or copying a resource, have tooltip text that is the same for the Filters tab.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ObjectFindAndReplace( MainWindow.MainWindow )
2: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ObjectList_MenuAction( MainWindow.MainWindow, string, string )

User descriptions of above error trace:

a. Find and replace in a user field
Also is it possible to include the ID field as one of the Find/Replace fields

b. Attempting Find/Replace in user field.
Finds OK but exception on replace

Should the Mag and FoV columns show values for Telescope and Imager combinations. These columns are filled in for Telescope and Eyepiece combinations.

The Mag/FoV information for both Telescope/Imager and Telescope/Eyepiece is displayed in the box below the 'Resource Combinations', so this really is a cosmetic issue.

Changes in Framework Reference are not showing (e.g. for 2.0b63)

When a site is unchecked in resources, it is removed from any observations logged at that site in the Observations tab. However, the site is retained in the observation database.

When downloading one or more user-contributed plan documents, the file is downloaded, automatically opened, and then saved and closed. This is slow. A means to download just the text format plan is requested.

FITS images are displayed dimmer than expected on the observations attachments tab.

Show object list row as a vertically-oriented column in a window
Is not Altitude always in deg you mention PM?

Twilight times: would like to see civ/naut/ast twilight times both after sunset and before sunrise.

A method to give the observation index (from the overall Observation Database) of the currently selected observation.

Methods for deleting images from the database?

With this option checked AND an object selected in the plan document, the script engine reports the script cannot be run because an object is NOT selected.

I have now a lot of columns in one line, everyone is important to me. The lines can be very long now.
I think, it would be helpful to a faster overview of the details of one object in the object-window for certain if one could for example see all details of the selected line in a new window one under each other. That could be in the menu which is published with the right click.

Add probability of visual detection of a star of given magnitude in a given telescope. Based on :
"How Faint Can You See" by Roger N. Clark, Sky and Telescope, April 1994, pages 106-108

A column in the object list that shows the angular distance of the object from the current telescope pointing coordinates, when applicable.

The Found status for an object will be true if an object has at least one observation with Found status = TRUE.

Add Found column to catalogue display window

The ability to link a script directly to a user-defined column.

The top line of the 'Astro words' list is blank. Should it be?

'Show changes for version...' only displays changes up to version 2b57.

RADectoPixels should be RADecToPixels
The 'to' should be capitalised.

I was using the SIMBAD feature for new objects for the first time (it rocks!), but SIMBAD has this annoying habit of returning the names in all capitals.

If I select the characters after the first and retype them in lowercase (for instaned, ED in RED RECTANGLE to ed), the list doesn't update and my edits don't "take". However, if I type at the end of the name field first, and then recapitalize the other words, it works fine.

Some serial ports (Bluetooth in particular) remain "open" after the initial connection (i.e. Bluetooth pairing) and subsequent serial port closing. This causes an error when the serial port is re-opened.
Add an option that (a) does not close the serial port when finished, and (b) reuses the open port upon reconnection, only closing the port when the app quits.

Please include a WWW icon on the Telescope information panel; similar to the one on the Site panel. Will need to include a URL field in the Telescope Resource editor.

Several remote sites have more than one scope, each with it's own web page for controlling them. Having a WWW icon will make logging onto the appropriate scope a lot easier.

Currently, only site resources have associated URLs. Extend this to all resource types.

I'm almost happy with the Date/Time entry window... however: after entering an observation time, hitting enter causes the current date and time to be used for the observation ("Now" button). As you just entered a date and time different from the current time, it would make sense for the enter key to function as the "OK" button instead of the "Now" button.

Could this be made to open an Explorer window showing the contents of the referenced folder?

At present (on Windows) the UDF Reveal button opens an Explorer window showing the contents of the parent folder. The default behaviour on double-clicking the referenced folder (shown in the Explorer window) is to open a second Explorer showing the contents.

(empty / 0 observation) session will not delete when the [-] button is used. It looks like it does initially, but after a restart the empty session is back. A "rebuild sessions" works as this removes all empty sessions. Have not tried it on a session that does have observations, but for empty session the [-] button is not working.

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub Listbox.RowTag( int32 )
2: Sub ObservationWindow.ObservationWindow.EditSessionBtn_Action( ObservationWindow.ObservationWindow, string )

User description of above error trace:

Clicked on the "pencil button" next to the + and - buttons under the session window in the Observation Database.

<<< Feature Request >>>
If you add an attachment to an observation through the plan (Observation/Attachment) there is no way to view the attachment(s) through the Observation Database (either the database view (no space !!) or the observation details dialog from this view). It would be nice to be able to add and view attachments through the observation database view.

Of course you can do it by opening the original plan from the observation database view then going to the attachment from there. However, this requires you to keep the original plan documents and that attachment is related to the Onservation not the plan (i.e. it is under the "Observations" tab).

When you select a date and then automatic turn on the field "Fix Date" and enter in the "Sky" windows the application crashes.

Installed b64 over b62. Not always but frequently hangs when selecting the SKY tab and in one occasion the field of view tab. Rolled back to b62 and no more problem. Looks the same problem as a few versions ago.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Function App.AdjustForV2Conversion() as boolean
2: Sub App.Event_Open()

User description of above error trace:

a. Attempted for transfer files to old laptop after new(...) one crashed and needs repair. Copied all files from "Roaming" folder. Transfer was from Vista 64x to XP computer.

b. Opened AP and got the 'Unable to open/locate the DSSImageCache' error, followed by the Application Exeception report.

This happened because I'd been playing around with my daughter's USB DVD-RAM drive on my machine. When I plugged my AP USB stick in I didn't notice that Windows had changed the USB drive letters (it does that sometimes).

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub NVBevelButton.Event_Action()

User description of above error trace:

a. Installed b63.
At the end of the install, let installer open AP.
AP opened with the last plan I was looking at. It opened on the objects tab, with a picture of the currently selected object also displayed.
Clicked on the button to toggle image display.
Got this exception.

b. Working in FOV tab and clicked the FOV prefs button to change something and got this exception.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.SetMWInfo( MainWindow.MainWindow )
2: Function MainWindow.MainWindow.Event_CancelClose( MainWindow.MainWindow, boolean ) as boolean

User description of above error trace:

Closing a plan document.

The screen keeps flashing as I am typing in Observation notes. This is because the program is saving as I type. This is very annoying.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Function TelescopeMount.GetRADec( boolean, boolean ) as ReturnValue
2: Sub MountThread.Event_Run()
3: Sub APThread.Event_Run()

Whenever I run my cursor over the night and year bars they flash. I am guessing that you are redrawing them each time the cursor moves to a new date/time to display the magnitude.
How about this - don't redraw them and just have the magnitudes show up in a tool-tip box when the cursor stops (on the year bar you currently do this for the day and time - just add the magnitude)

I set up this scenario:

Assume observation is in a session if date/time is within 8 hours (I want my sessions to be all night)

As I am entering my observations I decide at 1:00 a.m. that I want to start a new session. I check the End box for the current session. I add a new observation and create a new session.
Note: the Name field is not updated with the new session info (date and time)

My observation is now added to the new session AND is also added to the all night session.
So now I have the observation listed in both sessions.

Is this the way it is supposed to work?

There should be a way to abort a failed UDF script on the first error report.

While making a list of object transit times per object category per constellation, I have to enter the time and date on which I base the list for every single open planfile. It would be a nice feature if the Date/Time window had a checkbox or button to set the date and time entered in all open planfiles.

Add the ability to do disk-based USNO B1.0 support, for those who have access to the B1.0 database on hard disk.

If I change the various splitter widgets in the Observations tab I would like the program to save these so they are the same when the program is opened the next time.

The context menu items for adding attachments (Observations/Attachments) is not working. Click one of the context menu items, the menu disappears but no file selection dialogue appears.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.GetSiteStuff( MainWindow.MainWindow )
2: Function MainWindow.MainWindow.GetLatitude( MainWindow.MainWindow ) as double
3: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.ChangeFoVCentre( MainWindow.MainWindow )
4: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.FoVRA.Set( MainWindow.MainWindow, int32, double )
5: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.SetFoVRADec( MainWindow.MainWindow, double, double )
6: Sub MWFoVPreferences.ReadWrite( boolean, boolean )
7: Sub MWPreferences.ReadWrite( boolean, boolean )
8: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.OnOpen( MainWindow.MainWindow, FolderItem, boolean )
9: Function App.OpenADocumentFile( FolderItem, byref MainWindow.MainWindow, string, boolean, boolean ) as boolean
10: Sub App.Event_OpenDocument( FolderItem )
11: Sub Window.ShowModal()
12: Sub App.Event_Open()

User description of above error trace:

launching app

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Function App.DoWarning( string ) as boolean
2: Function App.OKCancel( string, int32, uint0, int0, int0, int0, nType, string, boolean, string, string ) as boolean
3: Function App.YesNo( string, int32, uint0, int0, int0, int0, nType, string, boolean ) as boolean
4: Sub ExceptionDialog.ExceptionDialog.ContinueBtn_Action( ExceptionDialog.ExceptionDialog )
5: Sub Window.ShowModal()
6: Function App.Event_UnhandledException( RuntimeException ) as boolean

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub DatabaseStuff.DropTableFields( REALSQLDatabase, string, string() )
2: Sub ObservationDatabase.FixupDatabase()
3: Sub ObservationDatabase.OpenDB()

User descriptions of above error trace:

a. After my last Error Log reported 10/11/2009, I was just checking to see if AP v2.0.0.61 would start or continue after an Exception. It would do neither, so I checked to see if the error report was the same as before. The error condition was exactly the same and therefore repeatable.
b. Following installation, I was attempting to start up the AP program on my Windows XP Professional machine. The error log is listed here.
c. I had a problem with the V2.0b58 install were the resorces window could not be displayed. It was in the Windows tab listing and on the Taskbar but I could not get it visable. I had all other windows minimised and sill could not get the resorces window to be visable. I uninstalled Astroplanner and tried to reinstall it many times. Every time I ran the new installation it would hang at "Checking Observation Databaase". I finally got a new installation to run by removing the resorce, data, and obs database then running with create new files. Now this error is what I got when I tried to run the Converter from V1 to V2. I must have a corrupted file.
d. Downloaded V2 and was in the process of installing!

For the purposes of image annotation and small drawings/charts (FOV to Constellation size) it would be useful to have RA/Dec origin and scale (pixel/degree) properties. A gnomic projection conversion method would also be required.

A 'nice-to-have' would be a method for drawing celestial grids on a canvas.

When displayed the labels for Position Angle and Separation, the labels show magnitude-separation-position angle. I believe a more logical sequence would be magnitude-position angle-separation. This is how most double star books display the data and how I believe most folks read and interpret double star data.

The Print margin settings set under Preferences/Printing are not transfereed to File/Page Setup.

Under File/Page Setup the margins have to be setup again.

In my case I have set Preferences/Printing margins to 5mm but under File/Page Setup they show as 25mm.

In the skychart is the alignment star Alphekka, gamma CrB. (user catalogue)
A magnitude 2.2 is given, but in reality is has magnitude 3.8

I think that the proper one should be Alphekka (or Alphecca), alpha CrB, that indeed has a magnitude of 2.2.

A little mistake, probably due to fuzzy search, since Alphekka is also called Gemma, that could have caused the mixup with gamma

User-defined fields (particularly File and URL fields) do not edit consistently, require modifier keys, etc. Something should be done to improve matters. Also tool tips tend to get in the way when clicking.

A User-defined field type to reference a folder.

Went to update my eyepiece list and notice Televue's Ethos 10 mm eyepiece not included.

When changing the date/time of an observation, entering the new date/time as UT gives bogus results.

A fourth column (after the Description column) to control whether or not the attachment image is displayed (the square box to the right of the Attachments pane).

I have some large(ish) FITS and text files that cause an annoying delay when mistakenly selected. The attachments are present because I want to be able to right-click on them and load the appropriate editor or analysis program.

With a DSO image displayed in the FoV tab, the letters indicating cardinal directions are often difficult to see due to the gray color and the brightness of the DSO image. White letters (or bright yellow, or any other contrasting color) would be much easier to see.

Optionally add a list of astronomical words to the user dictionary for the spell checker.

Include a find and replace feature in the Objects/Plan window. Particularly useful when importing plans and trying to tidy them up in AP

Get spell checking running again. It was removed awaiting vendor updates.

Add a feature that does find-and-replace on selected observations in the Observations database window. You can specify what fields are to be considered (Notes, Telescope, eyepiece, etc.).

Click the + for a new observation. Make sure the GMT checkbox is checked.

Click in the chart at the top. The white line does move, but to a spot displaced by an hour to the right (for me, where GMT is one hour ahead of local in the summer).

The PEC on and off buttons on the Telescope Control palette stay grayed out even when the RA and Dec PEC boxes are checked.

Telescope: LX200ACF
Operating system: MacOS 10.5.8

It seems as if it is not possible to export a single session using "File - Export - Observations/Sessions". When observations were logged two nights in a row it is only possible to export the observations for both session. Screenshot included.
(the export to Excel is working though!)

If I right-click on either the night graphic or the year graphic a window comes up that says a problem has ben encountered a problem and the needs to close. I click OK but the program does not close. I have to use windows task manager to shut down the program.

Unable to change the Home position Alt/Az values in the telescope mount edit dialog.

This particular example uses Resources → Telescope, but I think this happens anywhere.

1: Create a new User-defined Field
2: Set the field type to 'Internet URL'
3: Click on 'OK'
4: Click the appropriate Value box to enter a value
5: An Explorer window for C:\ is displayed !?!??? :)

Seems only to be a problem when the field type is Internet URL and the Value field is empty.
Set the field type to Character String, enter a valid URL, then change the field type to Internet URL. Clicking on the Value box works as expected.

In the Windows "Object Tab", if you press the right mouse button on the image (es.M33), the system crashes.

Just installed 61 and found out when I right click on an item in the objects list, AP crashes. I just sent you a note that the same thing happens in the Sky tab page.

In the Sky tab page, I right clicked (don't really know why) and immediately AP closed. Not sure of this bug is significant or not. Just thought you ought to know.

If I right click on any object in a plan using 2.0b61, I get a hard crash. There is no AP debug, just a Windows (XP/SP3) error log which is attached.

This one is not as bad as the v058 ones
In the Objects tab, when I try to create a User-defined Field by a right-click and my mouse is on the User-defined Fields area, the crash is immediate (the MS Windows message appears)

Resource editor, Sites tab:
The User-defined Fields are too small to see or use properly.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Function ImageDatabase.BuildDatabaseFromDSSCache() as boolean
2: Sub App.Event_Open()

User description of above error trace:

a. As the Ver is a Beta I added a "V2 on to the end of the directory name to keep both seperate on my disk.
When I was converting, I did not change any checks but just clicked ok.

b. This time I removed Ver 1.6 and installed Beta V2. above is the error when I started the program after I uninstalled V2 and then reInstalled V2.

When I try to download a DSS image, the download and conversion seem to go fine, but instead of an image I get a black field with the statement "Cannot open image" on it.

it would be convenient to add another color that highlights the object in the "Field Of View":
_ Green Color: Object Observed
_ Red Color : Object Not Observed
_ ??? Color : Object Observed but "Not Found"

When I tried to open a V1 document, the messages said it was converting, but the resulting document was empty

I am attaching two jpgs showing the offending actions of the scroll bar arrows. Moving from any tab to the Objects Tab creates a single scroll bar error that doesn;t do anything until AP repaints the screen and changes the scroll bar arrow in to two separate working arrows. First image shows problem arrow behavior and Image 2 shows how it they should be and they both work correctly.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub Comet_MP_SN_Functionality.DoCometMinorPlanetImport()
2: Function MainWindow.MainWindow._ImportCometMinorPlanetData_Action( MainWindow.MainWindow ) as boolean

User description of above error trace:

I was loading COMET.DAT, but couldn't find file. I cancelled out of the file browser.

A change in the way text files are opened/created (which happens a lot within AP) might cause an exception in 2.0b59

Exception Type: Unknown Type Exception

1: Function TextInputStream.Open( FolderItem ) as TextInputStream
2: Sub Preferences.ReadData( boolean )
3: Sub Preferences.Constructor( FolderItem, boolean )

User description of above error trace:

Startede for the first time.

Working in the Objects tab and right click with mouse for popup menu and choose Show Object in FOV. In FOV then choose Sky tab and Microsoft Send Report pops up and app hard crashes. Tried several different object plans from about 30 items to less that 10 and hard crash every time.

Try this plan when trying to recreate the crash when clicking the Sky tab. Open plan and selesct an object then click on the Sky tab.

Exception Type: Nil Object Exception

1: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.DrawSkyInRect( MainWindow.MainWindow, boolean, Graphics, int32, int32, int32, boolean )
2: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.DrawSkyStuff( MainWindow.MainWindow )
3: Sub MainWindow.MainWindow.RedrawSky( MainWindow.MainWindow )
4: Sub SkyComputeThread.Event_Run()
5: Sub APThread.Event_Run()

Choosing Sky tab causes hangin/crash

Repeatable problem (sometimes happens also when changing to other tabs - but it somehow has to do with the Sky Tab)
It does not always happen the first time when going to the Sky tab, especially not when you go there right after opening the plan.

Following Event:
I went to FoV and choose (after my previous report about the selected catalogue exception) the All Sky catalogue

Then went to the Sky Tab and heared the 'error ting' sound and the application hangs completely

AP crashed a several times as soon as I hitted the Sky tab.

However,
I have two screens
I started AP again and dragged it to the second screen.
Now I could go to the sky screen.
I've now exited and restarted AP several times without any issues.
Fingers crossed!
I haven't had the APPCRASH crash with v059 either

opened full screen
to sky tab
in skytab to smaller screen
AP freezes
exit through right mouseclick on icon on taskbar
warning This application doesnt react
exit now - button
then MS-Windows message that the app will be closed:

Undocumentated change for compiler framework means that some database updates will fail.

Be able to centre FoV at particular RA/Dec coordinates (as with V1.6).

Would it be possible to allow the catalogs in the FoV tab to be opened by double clicking them?

Currently the catalogue search on Visibility does not take into account the user-defined site horizon if there is one. The main reason for this is the enormous computational complexity of determining visibility over a range of time. If the visibility is only required for a single point in time, then the site horizon could be taken into account. Make this an option.

Using the telescope "mimic" option for a (real, not emulated) telescope mount does not show the mimic window.

File→Merge should merge user-defined object field definitions, possibly as an option.

Compared to the Observations tab, the left window in Resources (for all tabs except "combinations" is a fixed size. Would be useful if the size of this window to be user adjustable.
(the window I mean is the one containing the names of the actual resources)

The new compiler framework includes better built-in support for proxy servers. Toss the old code and replace it with the new (and more comprehensive) code.

After slewing to a target, keep that target in a list and allow slewing to any target in that list.

The line after ELSE and ELSEIF statements is not indented

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

1: Function _VariantInt32.Operator_Convert() as int32
2: Function Dictionary.HasKey() as boolean
...
24: Sub App.Event_Open()

User description of above error trace:

a. The situation is the following:
- my last time using astro planner I received the notification that 2.0B54 had timed out. I waited the 30 seconds and proceeded to use astro planner to log my observations. I just got back to the computer now and downloaded and installed 2.0B58. Astroplanner now fails to start. It is doing a long check on the obersvation database and then crashes out with this report. I re-intalled 2.0B54 and again waited the 30 seconds and yes I can get back into astroplanner and continue with usage. I reinstalled 2.0B58 again and yes it fails again on checking the observation database. I guess I'm going to be forced to use N54 and have to wait for the 30second timeout announcement

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

1: Function _VariantInt32.Operator_Convert() as int32
2: Function Dictionary.HasKey() as boolean
3: Function Paths.GetPath( int32, string(), string() ) as FolderItem
...
23: Function ObservationDatabase.db.Get() as ObservationDatabase
24: Sub App.Event_Open()

User description of above error trace:

a. This was after a clean install. I had just logged an obervation, closed, then re-opened the application. Hung up checking the observation database.

b. Saving changes to plan ie. shutting down with save enabled.

Resolve freezing problem with some digital settings circle mounts (e.g. the built-in emulated DSC mount).

Exception Type: Stack Overflow Exception

1: Function _VariantInt32.Operator_Convert() as int32
2: Function Dictionary.HasKey() as boolean
...
24: Sub App.Event_Open()

User description of above error trace:

b57 was installed and loaded OK. After it expired, I installed b58. Now it does not load observation plan and hangs until this page comes up. Continue does not start the program.

Resizing the "Edit Observation" window (opened from the Observation database) causes the "Notes" field to wander around.

Objects in the Caldwell catalog are displayed in the wrong constellation(s).

Add an option to open the telescope control palette automatically upon connect (where applicable)

Latitudes and longitudes are being retrieved from Meade telescopes with degree and minute precision only. Autostar-powered scopes (at least with recent firmware) supply degrees, minutes and seconds.

The Compare Computer/Telescope dialog reports bogus values for Alt/Az (as computed from the telescope's current RA and Dec)

The Telescope Control Palette is completely nonfunctional for me. When connected to the mount successfully, enabling the palette causes B53 to freeze. No response to any input, no serial port traffic, and I can't even move the windows around anymore. I let it sit like that for 15 minutes just in case it was something in a bad loop that might work itself out.. no joy. Had to force quit the app.

In the left Sessions window, is it possible to displayed along with or instead of the observations, the nr. of individual objects observed? AP counts multiple magnifications used on a single object as multiple observations.

Add the ability to copy or save the coverage chart image from the Observation database window's Locations tab.

Moved to version2.0b58 and no longer get crash when using USNO B.1 downloaded stars with the box "Draw behind other objects checked". That appears fixed from version 57.
BUT
Using just USNOA2.0 in the apcat catalogs and the USNOB1 downloaded info...
the B1 stars are drawn on top of the A2 stars (even though I said draw behind) so if I move my pointer over some stars - the B1 data comes up and NOT the A2 data. Whereas if I turn the B1 external catalogue OFF, the USNOA2 star reders in the same spot and if I move a pointer over it - this time the correct USNO A2 data for the star appears..

I reported a bug similar to this one about a month ago.
This time I entered an observation for the galaxy NGC7753 in the constellation of Pegasus. The observation was matched to the galaxy but also to the (unobserved) planetary nebula Minkowski 1-1 (M1-1) in the constellation Andromeda.
A "change of object" by replacing the planetary nebula with a synonym from another catalog has no result: the galaxy's observation remains matched to the planetary nebula.
I have included the planfiles for both Pegasus and Andromeda.

In the Edit Annotations, M100 appears before M17. Would it be possible to have numbered objects appear in human order rather than computer order?

Exception Type: Out Of Bounds Exception

1: Sub FoVCatalogueList.FoVCatalogueList.LoadCatalogues( FoVCatalogueList.FoVCatalogueList, int32 )

User description of above error trace:

I was looking at the FoV to M56 and noticed a (new?) nice feature: the possibility to sort the list of Catalogues by Type Id and Selected.
I chose Selected. The Catalogue area (or list) was empty. Probably there were no catalogues selected yet.
I clicked the Selected radio button again and this exception window showed up. I don't know if the second click on the Selected radiobutton has anything to do with the exception.

I try to sort a plan (ghost hunt for oct 2009) by the transit time with an offset of 8 pm but all I get is the default start time of 12 pm.