Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
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!
