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.
For some reason I can no longer preview images in the image viewer to use the preview adjustments in DPP. The only way to view stacked images is to open them with one of the adjustment tools, which does not let me switch back and forth between different iterations of pre-processing.
Thoughts?
Does double click the image line work? For me it does on windows
That did work, thanks. Used to just be a single click to view each image, wasn't aware of the change.
Clear skies!
Eric
For some reason I can no longer preview images in the image viewer to use the preview adjustments in DPP. The only way to view stacked images is to open them with one of the adjustment tools, which does not let me switch back and forth between different iterations of pre-processing.
Thoughts?
Hi Eric,
Yes, I wrote all changes down in the release notes, but it was quite a lot of information 😉 so maybe I should let APP inform you about the changes in the new version?
that would mean, that you can ask APP for the latest release notes to read and study them if wanted.
I made this change for several reasons, previously, if you selected/deselected a frame, APP would immediately start to load that frame which wasn't nice I think. And it made it impossible to do a multi-selection/deselection of frames. This is now possible by dragging your mouse over the frame list with the left mouse button or using shift/ctrl keys.
Furthermore, I have added a right-mouse-click menu which I hope you find usefull. I will be adding more options to this right-mouse-click menu in due time, like setting the reference frame for instance, or renaming a file.
Mabula
Hi Mabula - I think there are some benefits to the double click method, but there's also a downside for me. When I'm trying to preview all of my subs one by one, I used to be able to click on the first sub and then arrow down to look at the next one. Now I need to double click on each successive sub to do this.
It's not terribly inconvenient, but it does make it somewhat more cumbersome. Perhaps there is a way to make the behavior in APP that, once an image has been double clicked, a subsequent down or up arrow would move to the next sub and automatically do the equivalent of a double click (i.e., display that image)? If I then single click on an image, that would NOT load that image into the preview window (I'd still need to double click to preview), so the ability to select a group of images with a Ctrl-click or Shift-click would still work.
Scott - http://www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/
Hi Scott,
Thank you 😉 for your thought on this.
I should be able to fix that for you, I'll try to add the option that the up and down arrows work again for loading a new frame in the list if a frame was already loaded.
Mabula
