[time-nuts] Lady Heather Wish-list
John Miles
jmiles at pop.net
Sun Dec 5 00:16:22 UTC 2010
> I echo Bob's thanks to the authors of this invaluable program.
>
> I like to have the satellite path display to the right of the graph
> panel, but haven't managed to set the configure file to do that
> automatically, and always have to issue the gb and gm commands after
> running the program - have I missed something?
Mark can address this, hopefully.
> I know it has been mentioned before, but I am concerned about the
> program apparently using 100% of CPU time.
As discussed before, it's behaving as intended. It does not use 100% of the
CPU on an absolute basis; rather, for maximum responsiveness, it will tend
to use most of the CPU time that's left over from other applications. (You
can run several instances at a time, for example, all connected to the same
TCP server.)
> On my old Toshiba laptop running Windows XP pro (service pack 1), Lady
> Heather beta 3.0 will usually self-quit after about ten days :-( I
> have several other logging programs (written in BBC BASIC - see
> http://www.cix.co.uk/~rrussell/bbcwin/bbcwin.html) running at the same
> time, but it is only LH which I has disappeared when I return after a
> couple of weeks. Sorry this is so vague.
Is this true of the current beta, with heather.exe dated June 2, 2010 at
1:41 PM? There was a bug in the earlier April beta release that could cause
it to run out of stack space under certain conditions. This could also
contribute to the perception of out-of-control CPU usage.
I updated the .exe in early June as soon as I found the bug, but at the time
I was expecting a new source dump from Mark, so I didn't bother bumping the
version number in the install script. That is still the case. :) You may
be able to fix the self-termination behavior with a reinstall. If not, let
me know offline and we can look into it.
-- john, KE5FX
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