June 24 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta46 has been released !
Improved internal memory configuration (lower ! memory usage), fixed beta45 startup issue, fixed Set Save Directory & 2-panel mosaics.
May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
Apparently in the 2.0 beta's the image viewer is at its fastest when it is outside the view hierarchy of the main app. I would like to propose a trick to make it look like the image viewer is part of the hierarchy.
The idea is to have a dummy image view inside the hierarchy. The real image view gets its position from that dummy view and is putting itself automatically on top of that view. For this to work there has te be some kind of fast communication mechanism between the dummy image view and the real one. What mechanism that is depends very much on the implementation details. If for instance the real image view is a separate process, one would imagine some kind of interproces communication mechanism. If the real image viewer is in its own thread, a posix signal could work.
Thanks for the suggestion, let's first see how the beta and stable will go. We'll definitely look at new suggestions after that, thanks!
