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Title: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 18, 2009, 05:44:56 PM
V3.05 is now available with all the reported problems corrected (we hope so).
As usual replace your existing file.

As copied from the previous thread:
We ask our beta testers for patience if any error is found. It is a very difficult task for our development team to try to have this software working on so many computer systems, graphic cards, Windows versions. Anyway we believe we are getting closer to an end.

Please send your reports to this topic:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/anrb.exe
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 18, 2009, 05:48:39 PM
Downloaded and testing now.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 18, 2009, 05:51:59 PM
Likewise :-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 18, 2009, 05:59:52 PM
Me aswell.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 18, 2009, 07:23:52 PM
First impressions are very good - stable, my routes problems seem to be fixed, and the ... problem hasn't resurfaced yet. Flags and MyLog seem fine, and it seems to be much less processor-intensive than recent versions. It seems to be locking on well to the selected flight on the map, and the photos/data panel is responding instantly to each flight clicked, where there had often been a long lag before.

I personally regret the passing of the Aircraft History count, but if it was holding things up, then I realise that it had to go.

We should of course leave it for a while to see if any problems emerge, but this looks to me like a candidate for release :-)

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 18, 2009, 07:27:32 PM
We are having problems (again) with our email server so alerts might have problems during the next hours.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 18, 2009, 08:01:59 PM
Looking good here, nothing negative to report.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 18, 2009, 08:11:14 PM
Looking very stable here, been running now for about 2hrs, lets hope it keeps that way.

The only thing I have found is in mylog, the flights history is showing (1), but no flights showing, this the same problem as we were seeing in my flights (now corrected).
If it was me, I would leave this alone and see if we get any moan's.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 18, 2009, 08:20:51 PM
It is exactly the same problem that made us to remove that count entry from the main window...we will have a look at that. Pls keep us posted on more problems.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RNAGG on September 19, 2009, 02:32:11 AM
I'm going to start testing now!
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Frank on September 19, 2009, 06:34:53 AM
(...) issue fixed. Thumbs up for this release

Frank
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 19, 2009, 06:48:22 AM
That is good news. We will wait for user feedback until Sunday night and after that we plan to release this version to the public (still as a beta). So please do your best to find any problem until then.

Tks again to all our beta testers.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 19, 2009, 06:51:07 AM
Running very nicely for me with no obvious problems found yet :-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 19, 2009, 07:10:03 AM
No problems to report from me either.  Running very smoothly.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 19, 2009, 07:37:57 AM
Running for nearly 10 hours now, very stable.

I don't miss the count in the aircraft history if that fixes that problem and my alerts are working just fine.

Well done Airnav it looks like we are about to cross the finish line. (That should make something break now ;-))
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 07:46:11 AM
EMA

You talked it up, Just had a complete map freeze up and was unable to select aircraft in the my flights list.

But to cure this, I unchecked and the checked the "Process Hardware Flights"

Everything back to normal.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 19, 2009, 07:48:12 AM
EMA

You talked it up, Just had a complete map freeze up and was unable to select aircraft in the my flights list.

But to cure this, I unchecked and the checked the "Process Hardware Flights"

Everything back to normal.

Andy

Thats why I did it to see if we could break it before the deadline ;-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EI4GXB on September 19, 2009, 08:31:25 AM
Tested and all running smoothly, good job, well done

Ger
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 10:16:27 AM
Hi

For a third time, I have got the freezing of the aircraft on the screen and not able to select aircraft in my flights. Has this anything to do with the memory issue you mentioned the other day.
Below is what I had after unchecking and checking "Process Hardware Flights" and the second shot is what I have now.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 19, 2009, 10:18:23 AM
For a third time, I have got the freezing of the aircraft on the screen and not able to select aircraft in my flights.

Does this still happen with the network download turned off?  I'm just trying to understand why I've never seen this happen.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 10:20:25 AM
I will try that chris
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 10:24:46 AM
I have unchecked network flights, but they are still on the screen, network:not connected in red. See below.

Andy

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Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 10:28:00 AM
Take a look at the one below.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 10:34:06 AM
And this is what I have now, no network flights. My flights are showing on the screen, but only 10 showing in my flights list at top, but nothing showing in list.

Going to restart now, but then going to work at midday

Andy

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Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 19, 2009, 10:42:05 AM
For a third time, I have got the freezing of the aircraft on the screen and not able to select aircraft in my flights. Has this anything to do with the memory issue you mentioned the other day.

I've seen a similar scenario in the previous beta's at odd times, not noticed it yet with the current one.

To me it seems to be a resource related issue, and the work around is to grab the lower corner of the screen and slightly resize the screen (as per bottom right of this screen). Your up to date data will reappear and you will be able to select the planes.

(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2306/20090919203527.jpg)


Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 19, 2009, 10:43:21 AM
And this is what I have now,

You have a "BMI British Midland" filter set - clear the filter and your other planes will appear
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 10:49:25 AM
I cleared the filter and it was still same, I closed down the RB and after that it would not let me restart it, so I had to restart windows.

I now have it running again, but without network flights on, I am now off to work and I will leave it running until about 22.15, when I get home.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 19, 2009, 11:15:49 AM
A small glitch whilst testing the email alerts I switched the network on, when I switched it off two aircraft remained in the network list and have done so for the last 3 hours. Any ideas why?

I closed the program restarted and they have now gone.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 19, 2009, 11:46:41 AM
A small glitch whilst testing the email alerts I switched the network on, when I switched it off two aircraft remained in the network list and have done so for the last 3 hours. Any ideas why?

I closed the program restarted and they have now gone.

It you select Network flight on again then off, it will clear them.  It seems to be related to WHEN you untick the box.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 19, 2009, 12:17:41 PM
A small glitch whilst testing the email alerts I switched the network on, when I switched it off two aircraft remained in the network list and have done so for the last 3 hours.

A long standing problem which I'd given up on hoping it would be fixed.  Never turn the network off when the network countdown timer is near 30 seconds or 1 second.  It gets confused.  I always wait until around the 10-20 second mark.

Previous discussion on this bug at http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=1940.msg15649#msg15649
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 19, 2009, 03:13:45 PM
Well its been running all day and it looks good here so far.

I am off out tonight so will leave it running and check it out tomorrow when I get back.

I did have problems with previous builds throwing an error when exiting after it had been running for 24+ hours so I will keep an eye out.

I don't want to tempt fate by saying it looks promising but it looks promising! ;^)

Thanks & kind regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 19, 2009, 07:41:07 PM
Hi
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Quote from: abrad41 on Today at 10:16:27
For a third time, I have got the freezing of the aircraft on the screen and not able to select aircraft in my flights.

Does this still happen with the network download turned off?  I'm just trying to understand why I've never seen this happen.

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I closed down the RB and after that it would not let me restart it, so I had to restart windows.

I now have it running again, but without network flights on, I am now off to work and I will leave it running until about 22.15, when I get home.

Just got home from work early, lucky me, the RB has now been running nearly 9hrs (without network turned on) and everything is working as it should be - I can only conlude that my problems are to do with the network.

EDIT, the whole program is working far better, quicker and how it should be running, without the network on. Seems to me the network is dragging everything down with it. This is a very stable version without the network on.

AirNav any thoughts

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 19, 2009, 08:46:30 PM
EDIT, the whole program is working far better, quicker and how it should be running, without the network on. Seems to me the network is dragging everything down with it. This is a very stable version without the network on.

I've always found RB more "fluid" or "smoother" or whatever the right word is without the network turned on.  It does struggle to download 1000+ aircraft, process them, put them on the map, etc.  For 5-10 seconds it struggles a bit.  Although I've never seen significant errors, just "sluggishness".

That's not a problem when you're just watching aircraft, etc.  So, I normally turn the network off when using menus, etc.

I wish Airnav would reconsider my idea of giving the end-user the option of only downloading the aircraft that are in view on the map, to reduce the download and processing overheads.   Maybe something for v4.

On a positive note, I find this v3.05 stable and, in my opinion, ready for public beta.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: prbflight on September 19, 2009, 10:21:15 PM
Latest beta running nearly 24 hours and seems flawless except I can't send e-mail alerts or reports.  Is this due to the beta or other mail issue's you've changed on your end?

Other then e-mail this beta seems rock solid.  Well done AirNav.

Paul@cyyb
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 20, 2009, 01:07:31 AM
This is all good news. :-)

"I wish Airnav would reconsider my idea of giving the end-user the option of only downloading the aircraft that are in view on the map, to reduce the download and processing overheads.   Maybe something for v4."

Tarbat that one would totally change the way the application interacts with the server and requires a lot of background work. We will consider it for a future version but totally impossible for now.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 20, 2009, 01:24:27 AM
"A long standing problem which I'd given up on hoping it would be fixed.  Never turn the network off when the network countdown timer is near 30 seconds or 1 second.  It gets confused.  I always wait until around the 10-20 second mark."

We will have a look at this one today.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 20, 2009, 03:54:25 AM
Tarbat that one would totally change the way the application interacts with the server and requires a lot of background work. We will consider it for a future version but totally impossible for now.

Indeed - I've also thought it would be nice to only download flights that I have "filtered" - e.g. "NM < 1000" for example, but then I realised when I navigate around the world map, what network flights would I receive? - probably none if the filter remained in effect.

Great idea, but sounds like it needs a good deal of thought/design to achieve.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 20, 2009, 03:56:03 AM
Other then e-mail this beta seems rock solid.  Well done AirNav.

Ack, except for the alerts this one seems to be pretty solid :)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 20, 2009, 07:34:54 AM
Good morning

I believe that v3.5 should be released to the public as a beta too. Its rock solid apart from the problem I have got with the network. I had a thought last night, I installed "Kaspersky Internet Security 2010" about a month or two again, this could prehaps be causing my problems.
At the moment I will use RB without the network and when I get time I will uninstall "Kaspersky" and try using AVG again to see if this will make a difference.

AirNav, when I have done this, I will let you know if this makes any difference, might just help people if there is a problem with this software. I am off on holiday next thurs for a couple of weeks, so will proberly try this when I get back.

AirNav, Thank you again for all your hard work.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 20, 2009, 08:30:22 AM
Don't know if this is a new problem or not.  Selecting an aircraft in Fleet Watch that is a network flight doesn't autopopulate.

You have to find the aircraft in the network view to autopopulate it.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 20, 2009, 08:49:06 AM
I don't think that autopopulate did ever work from the Fleet Watch window, only from the 'proper' lists?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: prbflight on September 20, 2009, 03:02:32 PM
All e-mail and alert problems are now working again.  Great work!

Paul@cyyb
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 20, 2009, 03:09:08 PM
Auto-populate is not supposed to work from FleetWatch/SmartView. We can add this in the future.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 20, 2009, 08:16:42 PM
I have to say it looks OK here also apart from after closing the app after it has been running a while when I get the anrb.exe has encountered an error window pop up.

Has anyone else seen this or am I the odd one out again?

The email alerts started flowing @ 3:00am this morning so I would have missed the Auto-Report but I have had some 107 Flight In Range, Mode-S & Registration Alerts - none of them dupes.

Thanks & regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: prbflight on September 20, 2009, 08:48:02 PM
I have to say it looks OK here also apart from after closing the app after it has been running a while when I get the anrb.exe has encountered an error window pop up.

Has anyone else seen this or am I the odd one out again?

The email alerts started flowing @ 3:00am this morning so I would have missed the Auto-Report but I have had some 107 Flight In Range, Mode-S & Registration Alerts - none of them dupes.

Thanks & regards,
-=Glyn=-

Hi Glyn

Yes I just tested closing down ANRB and I also got the 'encountered an error' message.  This also happened to me last night when I exited the program. Other then that this release seems solid.  Can other's check to see if they are having this glitch?

Paul@cyyb
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 20, 2009, 08:50:28 PM
Not having the closedown issue here.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 20, 2009, 09:16:14 PM
I've not encountered the "encountered an error" problem.  And I've closed RB about 5-6 times this weekend, sometimes after many hours of running.

Anyone else?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 20, 2009, 09:53:16 PM
When the "encountered an error" problem happens, pls create and send a screen shot to this topic.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 20, 2009, 10:50:30 PM
I've not encountered the "encountered an error" problem.  And I've closed RB about 5-6 times this weekend, sometimes after many hours of running.

Anyone else?

I saw it once, out of maybe 10 stops/starts, as it was a once off I didn't bother reporting it.

RB had taken a really long to to shut down in that instance, and eventually crashed.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 20, 2009, 11:29:20 PM
Our development team is taking care of this right now.
GlynH: can you confirm it happens always? If not what is the common frequency, 1 out of x?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: prbflight on September 21, 2009, 03:22:00 AM
I get the following error message when I shut the software down after running it for an hour or more.

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_apPKzN_-qUQ/SrbDuTjhr0I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/oV93GhSj8vs/s400/problem.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_apPKzN_-qUQ/SrbECqX2gLI/AAAAAAAAAVw/KMRErUg849w/s400/problem2.jpg)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_apPKzN_-qUQ/SrbD0aCQBnI/AAAAAAAAAVU/atDokXR8TyM/s400/problem3.jpg)

E-mail me if you want the .txt file.

Paul@cyyb
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 21, 2009, 04:24:36 AM
Tks for the information Paul.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 21, 2009, 06:25:39 AM
mmmm.... interesting.....

I just rebooted and restarted RB and all the settings were gone. I had to re-enter everything including the username & password, location alerts etc etc.

Maybe this is a good thing :)

Lets see what happens to my alerts now that RB has reset itself for some unknown reason!
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 21, 2009, 06:49:19 AM
mmmm.... interesting.....

I just rebooted and restarted RB and all the settings were gone. I had to re-enter everything including the username & password, location alerts etc etc.

Maybe this is a good thing :)

Lets see what happens to my alerts now that RB has reset itself for some unknown reason!

Yes I have seen this on more than one occasion and may have been tied in to the previous session being cancelled.

You know when you run the app and the Start requestor window opens with your username/password details and instead of clicking the Start box the Cancel box is clicked...when you then run the app the very next time all of the preferences/settings have disappeared.

Might this have been the case with you Peter?

I took to keeping all of my Alerts etc. in an Excel spreadsheet so it is easy to add/sort/maintain etc. and easy to import as a text file to populate when needed.

Regarding the closedown error Pauls screenshot is identical to mone.

I have already sent Aleksey the .txt file.

I must be feeling a little 'fragile' because when I see words like 'flawless' & 'rock solid' applied to software it makes my blood run cold...:-/

I only say this because RB can still bring my system to its knees.

I just watched Outlook crawling to send/receive messages and it took forever to attach the .txt file to Aleksey.

I exited RB - which incidentally did not display the Closedown error this time - and Outlook is back to its normal breakneck speed.

I was watching TaskManager and did not see any undue CPU activity but it was like wading through treacle.

Obviously if I am the only one then please do not spend any more time for the time being as the priority must be ot get the Public Beta out of the door...and of course it could be a machine specific thing and in any case I intend to build a new Core i7 machine when Windows 7 is released.

I can confirm the emailed log is working now though...

Regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 21, 2009, 08:00:48 AM
Yes I have seen this on more than one occasion and may have been tied in to the previous session being cancelled.

You know when you run the app and the Start requestor window opens with your username/password details and instead of clicking the Start box the Cancel box is clicked...when you then run the app the very next time all of the preferences/settings have disappeared.

Might this have been the case with you Peter?

No but its good to know :)

I start ANRB from a shortcut with "/connect" , so I don't get to interact with the logon box.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 21, 2009, 09:57:48 AM
I seem to be having issues with V3.05 after running for 36 hours +, the issues are as follows,
•   Repeat aircraft in my flights, see attached TC-SGH & PH-BFD
•   Non responsive from minimised in task bar, will maximise after time, but is then slow to respond and often goes into not responding
•   Aircraft disappear off map after switching process hardware flights on and off to update changes made in database
•   After an undefined period of time highlighted aircraft do not show their photo
•   Once loaded and gone to not responding, shutdown program it will not restart, from desktop icon
Is this the memory issue referred to in the last version ?

CAM


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Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 21, 2009, 10:48:25 AM
Cam

There seems to be something going on here, have you tried just running your local flights and turn off network. Read replys #15,18,20,21,22,23,26 and 31 below, then 38.

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Hi

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Quote from: abrad41 on Today at 10:16:27
For a third time, I have got the freezing of the aircraft on the screen and not able to select aircraft in my flights.

Does this still happen with the network download turned off?  I'm just trying to understand why I've never seen this happen.


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I closed down the RB and after that it would not let me restart it, so I had to restart windows.

I now have it running again, but without network flights on, I am now off to work and I will leave it running until about 22.15, when I get home.


Just got home from work early, lucky me, the RB has now been running nearly 9hrs (without network turned on) and everything is working as it should be - I can only conlude that my problems are to do with the network.

EDIT, the whole program is working far better, quicker and how it should be running, without the network on. Seems to me the network is dragging everything down with it. This is a very stable version without the network on.

AirNav any thoughts

Andy

Cheers

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 21, 2009, 11:27:22 AM
Andy,

Ill give it a go without network, but it seems strange that only a couple of people are suffering the same effect, not sure I would release this to public beta as we pay for the network there are bound to be complaints.

CAM

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 21, 2009, 11:53:00 AM
Cam

I am running Vista Home, with a AMD phantom proccessor and 4GB of memory.
Kaspersky Security 2010.
UltraMon software for running dual screens.

I am just trying to find some comman ground with the problem.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 21, 2009, 12:23:23 PM
I normally turn the network off most of the time, so may not have seen this problem.

I'll turn the network on for the rest of the day, and see if I encouter similar problems. 
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 21, 2009, 01:44:12 PM
Andy,

I am running Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 530 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 with 3GB of memory and BT/McAfee anti virus.

The problems seem to be similar to the slow menus that seemed to affect quad core PC's, but having the network off does seem to improve the performance as Tarbat stated in a an earlier post.

CAM

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 21, 2009, 01:58:19 PM
BT/McAfee anti virus.

McAfee won't help either.  There's no way to exclude the Radarbox folders in McAfee, so all file activity in RB will be virus-checked :(

When BT switched to McAfee (from Norton), I found Radarbox performance suffered.  So I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials instead, and excluded the Radarbox folder from virus checking.

For info, I run Vista Home Premium on a Dell Dimension Intel Dual Core 2.8ghz with 2gb RAM.  I install Radarbox on a separate drive, formatted as FAT32 to avoid Vista's terrible Transactional NTFS, which also hits I/O performance.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 21, 2009, 02:08:51 PM
I havnt really noticed any difference with McAfee compared to Norton, and the problems reported before only appear to be an issue with V3.05?

Strange.................?

Airnav any ideas ?

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 21, 2009, 02:19:39 PM
Chris

The problem seem to come up over several hrs of running RB, mine problem came up after about 3hrs and onwards of running.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 21, 2009, 02:21:42 PM
CAM: please let us know if that problem you reported now happened with previous V3 versions released on this beta forum. We need to know this urgently.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 21, 2009, 03:31:41 PM
Airnav,

The last version 3.04 from post #90 blocked up as reported in #122 of V3.04 thread, post #124 stated this was a memory issue.

Only seems to have come to light in the last couple of beta's, 3.04 from #90 & V3.05.

What were the changes for these could this be it ?

Has the memory issue in #124 been addressed ?

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 21, 2009, 03:31:54 PM
From outside the beta forum, Seems like a lot of people are haveing this problem after a few hrs running, like the person's below I have had it over the versions since 3.01.

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I'm having another crack at using 3.01 beta and am very pleased with what seems to be a substantial increase in numbers on my flights.

However I still run into a problem of the program freezing after a period of time. Once everything grinds to a halt, there is nothing I can do but close the program down and re-start. Whether this is associated with the increase in the numbers of flights being processed I don't know but my question is this:

is this a known problem that is currently being dealt with by the test team or is it down to my PC not being quick enough?

If the latter, are there any program preferences I can change to alleviate matters?
 
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I also have this problem, airnav is working on it
 
 
 

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Support on September 21, 2009, 03:52:27 PM
The memory issue was addrssed, we ran on it a low memory machine so any memory issues could be highlighted and the machine with 256mb is still happily running 3.05 since release without any issue.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 21, 2009, 03:59:03 PM
AirNav

There is a issue here somewhere though, thats 4 of us who has had the same problem, and if you release it, god nows how many more.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Support on September 21, 2009, 04:00:34 PM
We understand abrad41, were not saying an issue is not there. We are saying its not a memory issue that was mentioned by us earlier.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 21, 2009, 04:02:29 PM
ok thanks

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 21, 2009, 04:24:18 PM
Airnav,

Any ideas what it could be ?

It does not seem to occur here after switching off the network flights, been running without network since lunchtime here now 5 hours later all looks good.

Network looks like a start, how many Beta testers run the network whilst testing ?

Oh. I did switch the network on for a very short period at a point and there is still one aircraft showing (N705JB) even though the network is back off again.

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 21, 2009, 04:46:47 PM
Abrad: to keep this organized pls let us know who are the 4 users with thr problem and what is the problem in detail.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 21, 2009, 04:50:27 PM
I use the network but have no issues.

I have a 20MB fibre connection.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 21, 2009, 04:53:45 PM
AirNav

Myself - Beta Tester
Cam - Beta Tester
bratters - Non Beta Tester
marcdeklerk - Non Beta Tester

If you take a look above you will see mine and cam problems, look at reply #66 above to see the other 2. (The quote's were taken from the normal forum.

Andy


Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 21, 2009, 05:22:17 PM
EMA,

Nice to have 20 MB Take it your on Virgin cable or similar ?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 21, 2009, 05:32:08 PM
EMA,

Nice to have 20 MB Take it your on Virgin cable or similar ?

Yep, 20MB plus phone and TV for £22 a month including line rental  :-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 21, 2009, 05:44:33 PM
Is anyone else getting their emails to Andre bounced back as undeliverable?  I'm trying to contact Andre about some beta testing he wanted me to do, but all emails come back with this message:

I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[email protected]>:
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 21, 2009, 06:19:54 PM
Yes Tarbat, I've just had one bounced back - their email problems continue....

BTW I use the network all the time and I'm not getting any slowdowns or freezes - the app occasionally uses 100% processor power, but normally bumbles along at between 20-40% of my 2.21GHz single processor machine (3Mb RAM). There's a momentary spike to 90% every 30 seconds when the network data arrives.

This was a big problem around the change from 2.1 to 3.1, but it's a lot better for me now.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 21, 2009, 06:32:05 PM
BTW I use the network all the time and I'm not getting any slowdowns or freezes - the app occasionally uses 100% processor power, but normally bumbles along at between 20-40% of my 2.21GHz single processor machine (3Mb RAM). There's a momentary spike to 90% every 30 seconds when the network data arrives.

Yes, that's more or less what I see.  I get a 50% CPU spike for 3-4 seconds every 30 seconds, when everything freezes, and then continues okay.

Wish I could get in contact with Andre about the network beta testing :(
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Support on September 21, 2009, 06:35:19 PM
Email system is slowly coming back up for us. Resend the email later tonight or tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 22, 2009, 12:20:06 AM
Our emails are finally working at 100%. So feel free to email us (resend all emails sent during the last 2 to 3 days).
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 22, 2009, 10:18:57 AM
Anyone else noticed the little picture/graphics have disappeared from the "MyFlights/Network/Smartview/ACCARS/Alerts" buttons in the latest beta (not sure which beta they first disappeared)

(http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/320/20090922201519.jpg)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 22, 2009, 11:45:46 AM
No - I didn't notice!

I don't imagine they'll be missed.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 22, 2009, 04:37:01 PM
I have run V3.05 now since after lunch yesterday without network and have returned from work now to find everything is working OK, no response issues etc, seems to be a network related issue, as it has run fine for 24 h +.

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 22, 2009, 07:10:15 PM
Good news.

We have now corrected:
1- The statistics problem (both on mylog and RB interface);
2- The program exit crash problem;
3- The interface icons problem;

New exe below (we called it V3.06):
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/anrb.exe

Any pending item to be corrected?

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 22, 2009, 08:55:26 PM
Any pending item to be corrected?

Duplicate alerts?

seems 3 people have now been able to replicate the problem. Me, EMA & tarbat and we've narrowed down at least some of the circumstances.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 22, 2009, 09:31:59 PM
PJM/EMA/Tarbat: please send a resume of the problem and the situation when it happens so we can reproduce it here for correction.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 22, 2009, 09:41:44 PM
I am now running 3.06

I have set alert for B* in aircraft only

When Play sound, Show Notification and send email are checked I get two alerts and two emails for each aircraft.

If I deselect email then I get one alert.

See attached.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 22, 2009, 09:55:05 PM
I'm at work atm, but will test v3.06 when I get home.

I get the same as EMA, with "Aircraft" and "Registration" alerts. Wildcards or full names. It doesn't seem to affect the other types of alerts.

With both "notification & email" alerts selected I get 2 popups and 2 email alerts for the same alert.

Unselecting "show notifications" and I'll only get a single email.
Unselecting "send an email" and I'll only get a single popup



Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 23, 2009, 01:53:37 AM
EMA: Perfect explanation. We believe it is corrected now. PJM tks for insisiting on this one.

New exe at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/anrb.exe

From our side all problems should be corrected no.w Pls confirm.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 23, 2009, 06:08:07 AM
From our side all problems should be corrected no.w Pls confirm.

After some quick tests I can confirm its looking very good - I love the extra Mode S info that is there now (whether it was just put there for debugging I don't know - but I'd leave it in :)

I'm only receiving single popups and email alerts now.

Confirmed - I can not fault the latest version.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 23, 2009, 06:44:26 AM
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I have run V3.05 now since after lunch yesterday without network and have returned from work now to find everything is working OK, no response issues etc, seems to be a network related issue, as it has run fine for 24 h +.

CAM

Are you still working on the network problem.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 23, 2009, 07:12:25 AM
Airnav

You have done an excellent job.

The latest exe is running well.

Thanks

Kevin
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 23, 2009, 08:06:50 AM
Not really a fault with the RadarBox logging, but Rage 61 and 62 were popping in and out of cover yesterday and therefore produced multiple hits when the report was generated.  See attached file.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 23, 2009, 08:47:52 AM
Allocator: please explain this problem in detail (here or by email) and a way to reproduce it so we can make the necessary correction.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 23, 2009, 09:15:26 AM
No problem.  Rage 61 and 62 are (probably) 2 x F15 aircraft out of Lakenheath.  Because they are manoeuvring and/or flying in and out of cover of my antenna, there are being picked up for a few minutes then are lost, before being picked up again.  Hence the multiple records in the Report.  RadarBox sees these as new flights due to the time lapse between detection times.

I can't really see a way around this, other than having some sort of time filter.  JSTARS has a manual time setting to try to prevent this.  It's just a slider control so you can set it for example - if an aircraft appears multiple times in a 10 minute period, then only count it once.  It's crude, but it reduces the problem to a degree.

I don't think that this is necessarily a Beta V3.05 problem, it's the fault of the aircraft flying in and out of cover!  I'm not sure that a software change is really needed?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 23, 2009, 12:47:41 PM
I'm seeing a lot of "purple rain" with this version.  It's being caused by Network aircraft.  If I turn the network off, the purple rain dissapears.  Turn the network back on, I see the purple rain again.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3455/3947729006_a2d288f4b6.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarbat/3947729006/sizes/o/)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 23, 2009, 01:23:09 PM
I haven't been sitting in front of the computer all day, but no purple rain seen as yet.  I do have the Network on - I'll keep a look out.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 23, 2009, 01:48:18 PM
Tarbat: purple rain can only be caused by a unique mode-s (aircraft) sending position for many places. Could you find out if this is the case? (also has it happened with non real-time network - for all other testers we have Tarbat and RodBearden also testing our real-time network).
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 23, 2009, 02:07:19 PM
Ooooohhhhhhh! Now I'm jealous :-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 23, 2009, 03:11:46 PM
I am glad its raining on them ;-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 23, 2009, 03:38:09 PM
I've seen no more instances of purple rain all afternoon, but I'll continue to monitor.  Might be worth checking with Rod to see if he's seen any during network testing.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 23, 2009, 03:49:02 PM
No purple rain here, but I wasn't watching at the time when Tarbat saw his.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 23, 2009, 04:29:28 PM
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There is a issue here somewhere though, thats 4 of us who has had the same problem, and if you release it, god nows how many more.

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Myself - Beta Tester
Cam - Beta Tester
bratters - Non Beta Tester
marcdeklerk - Non Beta Tester

If you take a look above you will see mine and cam problems, look at reply #66 above to see the other 2. (The quote's were taken from the normal forum.

Andy

 

Has the network problem been solved or are you still working on it.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 23, 2009, 08:17:58 PM
Network update

I have run V3.06 since last night at 21:00 with network on and all seems fine, downloaded second version of 3.06 and now running with network on, will leave this now for a while to see if this has any issue.

V3.06 seems better on my issues, Abrad any joy at your end ?

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 23, 2009, 08:55:22 PM
You'll see on the screenshot the GAFMED flight ID for an A310. Twice now I have corrected the details in the aircraft table, including changing the ID to "10+25" - they stay there until I click the flight on the grid - it then updates the record with the Hungarian MIG data.

This is the only flight where I've seen this behaviour in recent versions of RB - I thought we'd got this one fixed!

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 23, 2009, 09:03:14 PM
Ooooohhhhhhh! Now I'm jealous :-)

They were probably the ones who said they'd pay for it expressed interest, in the poll :)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 23, 2009, 09:13:15 PM
If you read our posts on the poll thread, you'll see we're both sceptical about paying extra money for the real-time network.

I must admit that I am finding it rather tasty, though :-)

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 23, 2009, 09:22:03 PM
Was it not Allocator that said he was prepared to pay and he is not testing it.
Allegedly. :-)

Since retiring last month I now think hard about what I can spend my pennies on and when my network subscription expires next month it will be local flights only.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 23, 2009, 10:07:00 PM
Well, testing of the real-time network has been fun ;)  So many test conditions to consider where network aircraft transition to local flights, what effect different timeout settings have, etc. etc.  It's been a busy day!

But back to v3.06 - looks very stable. I ran the network for at least 14 hours solid today, and had no problems, and RB shut-down cleanly tonight as well.

I guess we just need to know if those having performance problems using the network can report good news or not.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 23, 2009, 10:10:33 PM
You'll see on the screenshot the GAFMED flight ID for an A310. Twice now I have corrected the details in the aircraft table, including changing the ID to "10+25" - they stay there until I click the flight on the grid - it then updates the record with the Hungarian MIG data.

Rod, try entering data into the PT, LK, PT2, and LK2 fields.  I've found in the past that unless these are filled in, RB still tries to get new details for an aircraft.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Support on September 23, 2009, 10:12:25 PM
Wasn't there an issue with "+" being in the registrations in the past?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 24, 2009, 12:01:25 AM
Support - I think you're right, but I can't remember the details.

Tarbat - there were entries in those fields, and I didn't change or delete them - working on the basis that a different registration would force them to update, I think. The odd thing is that the panel says "Photo not available", but I've checked the link fields, and both of them lead to actual photos in Airliners.net.

Anyway, if this problem only applies to these German + codes, I don't think it's a show-stopper - the current release seems pretty good to me.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 24, 2009, 02:35:17 AM
Regarding the Real-Time network: we know it will create a huge discussion about paying/not paying. In simple terms we will maintain the delayed network as it is now / same price. What will change is the simple addition of real-time network at an extra price. Who wants it pays for it, who doesn't want it doesn't pay and keeps the current solution or no network at all. We believe this is the best way to help all users and support all the development work.

Rgd the rest we are correcting the pending problems.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 24, 2009, 05:08:30 AM
Purple rain: we have re-checked the code and it is virtually impossible for that to happen (the code is very strict now on this part). Maybe it was a computer glitch, we make no idea, unfortunately. Any user pls confirm if this happens again.

Abrad41: the network problem has been corrected. Anyway pls confirm it doesn't happen there.

Allocator: we can't do anything regarding the on/off of such flights.

Rod: if that is not a show-stopper we would go ahead with this release to the public. Anyway we do confirm this only happens to registration having a "+". We believe the problem could also be airliners.net related. My question: can you find aircraft photos on airliners.net which registration has a +? We can't. Maybe you can help us with this and we would be happy to correct it.

So latest .exe below:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/personal/anrb.exe

Please report any problem. We believe we are very closed to a public release. Please do your best and test this version to its maximum extents during the next 2 days.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 24, 2009, 06:23:35 AM
The link to the new exe appears to be broken.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 24, 2009, 06:25:06 AM
The latest exe beta link does not work for me.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 24, 2009, 07:26:20 AM
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Network update

I have run V3.06 since last night at 21:00 with network on and all seems fine, downloaded second version of 3.06 and now running with network on, will leave this now for a while to see if this has any issue.

V3.06 seems better on my issues, Abrad any joy at your end ?

 

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Purple rain: we have re-checked the code and it is virtually impossible for that to happen (the code is very strict now on this part). Maybe it was a computer glitch, we make no idea, unfortunately. Any user pls confirm if this happens again.

Abrad41: the network problem has been corrected. Anyway pls confirm it doesn't happen there.
 

Sorry I go away on holiday today, so will not be able to test the network problem, also my subscription ran out last night @ 18:23.  Depending on the response from the other tester about the network problem, depends on weather I take out a new subscription for the next year, I will have a long think about it while on holiday. I will have my RB with me, but no internet connection.

Cheers

Andy



Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 24, 2009, 07:35:37 AM
Try
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/anrb.exe
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 24, 2009, 03:32:30 PM
I'm puzzled by the Luftwaffe + signs - I'm sure Airliners.net used to have them, but they're not there any more - I can't find any, anyway. I had manually set up some photos for many of their A310's with registrations including the + signs, and one of them is on the network at the moment. I changed the registration to leave out the + sign, and RB duly retreived the correct photos. The data was already correct, so no overwriting problem there.

The aircraft is just about to land, so I won't be able to change the details to see if RB overwrites them. Anyway, I suggest we forget this problem for now and see what happens if any more + signs occur in future.

The latest version seems excellent so far.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 24, 2009, 04:12:05 PM
Network was OK on 3.06 post #90 from last night until now, will try post #119 for any issues but all seems to be OK.

Seemed to go a lot better from V3.06 is this when the change was made Airnav ?

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 24, 2009, 04:29:49 PM
This latest version ran without any problems for me all today.  This version gets the okay from me to go to public beta.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 24, 2009, 07:07:54 PM
I'm puzzled by the Luftwaffe + signs - I'm sure Airliners.net used to have them, but they're not there any more - I can't find any

Rod

Airliners.net does not use the + sign

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 24, 2009, 08:15:42 PM
Network was OK on 3.06 post #90 from last night until now, will try post #119 for any issues but all seems to be OK.

Seemed to go a lot better from V3.06 is this when the change was made Airnav ?

CAM

3.06 version from post#119 just threw a wobbler on the network, aircraft 424915 was showing around 600 times as the network number went up to 1339. See attached.

Maybe just a one off ?

CAM

[attachment deleted by admin]
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 24, 2009, 08:19:44 PM
Ouch! - looks nasty - I've certainly never seen anything like that.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 24, 2009, 09:18:33 PM
Does look strange.  I've never seen that myself, and I've been running the network solid for the last couple of days, and watching it very carefully.

Could it be an internet connectivity or latency thing.  CAM, what's your internet connection?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 24, 2009, 10:10:05 PM
CAM: we sincerely make no idea about that one. Pls keep it running and report if the problem continues.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 25, 2009, 06:35:16 AM
The latest exe is very stable, no issues at all for me.

Like a few other beta members my network is coming to an end it does not seem a year since I had my first radarbox. I will continue beta testing until the release of this version then leave it to those that are far more capable than I.

It has been informative working with you all.

Thanks

Kevin
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 25, 2009, 07:01:28 AM
I am on BT Internet and receive around 4mb of the alleged 8mb I should get, the broadband connection is rock solid, I know this because a couple of months ago I lost everything and ended up having a new phone line fitted and its been excellent since then.

Hopefully the problem I had was a glitch, I will check again later and report.

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 25, 2009, 09:21:29 AM
Try
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/anrb.exe

Nothing to report here, looks good!
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 25, 2009, 05:49:27 PM
So next stage is to release this version as a beta to the public.
We would like to have a one by one green light from all of you.

PJM: Green Light;
CAM:
EMA:
Tarbat:
RodBearden:
Allocator:
abrad41:
GlynH:
prbflight:
EI4GXB:
Frank:
RNAGG:
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 25, 2009, 05:52:09 PM
Green light from me!

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 25, 2009, 06:22:39 PM
Well 3.06 Beta has been running OK for a while here and is definitely the best version I have ever seen regarding stability, menu speed etc.

Still has a tendency to slow everything else down but that could be something specific on my PC and so I wouldn't want that to hold up releasing the long awaited Public Beta.

That means a green light from me then!

Thumbs up here...nice one AirNav.

Now it's time to brace ourselves...:-)

Thanks & kind regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 25, 2009, 06:23:04 PM
Sorry no green light from me :(

The network seems to be still causing me issues.

I am running the version from post #119 and once running the network the application slows down as previously mentioned. I get the vista " I am thinking of something" swirl, then OK, but;

Once network is running it seems OK but once turned off after running for a while, network aircraft remain on screen, whatever the number was, then, last time I tried 73 aircraft remained, it then eventually fell to 1 aircraft, presumably after they had timed out.

Once this has occurred in my flights selecting the aircraft does not work, it does not show on the map and it does not show the photo and aircraft do not move.

Then all of a sudden all comes back to normal?????? Then stops again.

Also on start up the map returns to China, with no interface showing, which is could be my fault, when I loaded v3.06/#90 it was slow to respond and I selected China instead of default to get it displaying the map and ever since it loads up the same China map with no interface

It is very frustrating as to what it could be.

Could I try a full version download to test a full install or should I try the first V3.06 version again as that seemed to be OK, to verify my results.

Sorry for the bad news.


CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 25, 2009, 06:24:26 PM
Tarbat says green light to go.

Very stable, tested extensively over the last couple of days.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Support on September 25, 2009, 06:52:09 PM
Cam,

What are you system specs?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: abrad41 on September 25, 2009, 06:55:16 PM
Airnav

I am away on holiday and will leave the country tomorrow,  so have not tested the latest version. (So cannot give the green light)

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Network update

I have run V3.06 since last night at 21:00 with network on and all seems fine, downloaded second version of 3.06 and now running with network on, will leave this now for a while to see if this has any issue.

V3.06 seems better on my issues, Abrad any joy at your end ?

 


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Purple rain: we have re-checked the code and it is virtually impossible for that to happen (the code is very strict now on this part). Maybe it was a computer glitch, we make no idea, unfortunately. Any user pls confirm if this happens again.

Abrad41: the network problem has been corrected. Anyway pls confirm it doesn't happen there.
 


Sorry I go away on holiday today, so will not be able to test the network problem, also my subscription ran out last night @ 18:23.  Depending on the response from the other tester about the network problem, depends on weather I take out a new subscription for the next year, I will have a long think about it while on holiday. I will have my RB with me, but no internet connection.

Cheers

Andy



 


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Sorry no green light from me :(

The network seems to be still causing me issues.

I am running the version from post #119 and once running the network the application slows down as previously mentioned. I get the vista " I am thinking of something" swirl, then OK, but;

Once network is running it seems OK but once turned off after running for a while, network aircraft remain on screen, whatever the number was, then, last time I tried 73 aircraft remained, it then eventually fell to 1 aircraft, presumably after they had timed out.

Once this has occurred in my flights selecting the aircraft does not work, it does not show on the map and it does not show the photo and aircraft do not move.

Then all of a sudden all comes back to normal?????? Then stops again.

Also on start up the map returns to China, with no interface showing, which is could be my fault, when I loaded v3.06/#90 it was slow to respond and I selected China instead of default to get it displaying the map and ever since it loads up the same China map with no interface

It is very frustrating as to what it could be.

Could I try a full version download to test a full install or should I try the first V3.06 version again as that seemed to be OK, to verify my results.

Sorry for the bad news.


CAM
 

This is the very same problem that I have had all the way along.

Andy
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Frank on September 25, 2009, 08:39:20 PM
Stable as a rock, the best beta so far in my humble opinion

Frank
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 25, 2009, 09:10:40 PM
CAM, if there's an earlier 3.06 version that worked okay for you, then it must be worth you running that version again to eliminate a specific problem with your PC setup.

What date/time did you have the earlier version?  I've got backup copies of all previous versions.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: prbflight on September 25, 2009, 10:36:07 PM
Green Light.  Good to go!

Well done Airnav.

Paul@cyyb
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 25, 2009, 11:00:07 PM
Full install available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/anrb306betasetup.exe

CAM: you are getting out of memory / Windows memory problems.
Please try the full install above and let us know the results.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 25, 2009, 11:12:36 PM
Full install available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/anrb306betasetup.exe

fyi that link doesn't work for me.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 25, 2009, 11:19:33 PM
Pls try again now.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 25, 2009, 11:26:33 PM
Pls try again now.

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 25, 2009, 11:30:17 PM
Sorry we are still uploading. Pls wait a few more minutes (08:40 to be precise :-) )
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 25, 2009, 11:30:58 PM
AirNav

While we are talking about full versions & re-installs. I had a lot of concerns when I was uninstalling & reinstalling because the uninstall process leaves behind files in its install directory and also registry entries.

Not sure if they caused me any actual problems with testing, but it would be nice to have an option in the uninstall routine that you could check that would remove all userdata as well as the standard install files, to remove any doubt.

e.g. Remove ANRB directory and Remove registry entries and reboot the system to free any dll's etc.

I wouldn't worry for this beta version if you are about to release it as a beta, but would be good to include in future.


current beta status:

PJM: Green Light;
Tarbat: Green Light;
GlynH: Green Light;
prbflight: Green Light;
RodBearden: Green Light;
Frank: Green Light;

EMA:
Allocator:
EI4GXB:
RNAGG:

abrad41: Network flight issues - and no more network access to test.
CAM:  Network flight issues
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 25, 2009, 11:39:30 PM
Ready for download.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 26, 2009, 12:57:07 AM
Not that I've got Vista, but have we got signed drivers yet?

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 26, 2009, 01:00:23 AM
We submitted them to Microsoft and we are still waiting for a reply. This a very, VERY, BUREAUCRATIC process and one of the most difficult things we have made at AirNav Systems during the last years (because of the bureaucracy). We are giving our best to expedite it.

Once we finally have ANRB ready we will focus our attention on AirNav ShipTrax, FlightWatch and all the other pending projects.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 26, 2009, 05:35:24 AM
Green from me, stable as a rock.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 26, 2009, 05:55:28 AM
Full install available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/anrb306betasetup.exe

Please try the full install above and let us know the results.

AirNav - Can you please check the version you have included in the full install package.

it is 2009/09/24 06.06 and I have 2x later versions of v3.06b than that.

Also not sure if it is by design, or accident, but installing the full version overwrites any existing log file in the directory (so you lose the history). No problem for me as I have backups :), but may catch out some others....

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7310/20090926154231.jpg)

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 26, 2009, 06:56:23 AM
Airnav Support,

See post 60 for PC spec.

I will install the full version and run today and see if I still have the issue.

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 26, 2009, 08:42:33 AM
Before running this new beta, I file-compared back to my current installation to look for what's changed:

1. D008.DAT file still needs updating to include military flags, etc. from my latest version.  Same applies to the FLAGS folder.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3611/3955382424_2c67f84674_t.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarbat/3955382424/sizes/o/)

2. The following files are newer in this new installation.  I'm assuming this is another update to the navigation aids database.
D009.DAT - completely new file
L004.DAT
L006.DAT
L009.DAT

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3954624433_757cd544a7_t.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarbat/3954624433/sizes/o/)

I'll now get on with testing this installation.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 26, 2009, 10:16:16 AM
D009.DAT - completely new file

I don't have it here - maybe something to do with realtime live network?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 26, 2009, 12:06:25 PM
Odd - I haven't got a D009.dat and I've got the real-time network.

AirNav - I sent you a new set of logos dated 23-9-09, but that hasn't got into this update. It will make life easier for everyone if you could issue that one.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 26, 2009, 12:13:45 PM
Odd - I haven't got a D009.dat and I've got the real-time network.

Don't worry.  D009.dat dissapears after you run Radarbox.  Looks like some database updates.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 26, 2009, 02:41:08 PM
So we are just waiting for CAM feedback and for all the new files to be sent to my email.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 26, 2009, 02:46:47 PM
D008.DAT and FLAGS folder in the zip file attached to my post #153
http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3412.0;attach=4810
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 27, 2009, 07:35:21 AM
Airnav,

Left the full install running yesterday and last night.

Came to it this morning and My flights were OK, then went to network and could not select any aircraft and once it starts this cycle it will not let you select anything and it go's into not responding mode.

Looks like it may be an issue with my PC setup etc as no one else is having this other than abrad who is now away and cannot test.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 27, 2009, 09:32:54 AM
The complete setup is running very smooth overhere.

Regards,

Dirk.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 27, 2009, 03:47:09 PM
Airnav,

V3.06 from post #85 looks to be the most stable on my PC, what changes were made to later versions than this ?

CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 27, 2009, 04:03:42 PM
CAM: we are not sure of the changes made but they were only corrections to the reported problems on this forum (not implementation of new features).
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: CAM on September 27, 2009, 06:15:48 PM
Airnav Dev,

Whatever the changes were it made a difference to my PC/RB performance.

As only 2 out of 12 testers (17%) have issues are you going for release ?


CAM
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RNAGG on September 27, 2009, 07:04:12 PM
Hello everybody!

Follows the position of the tests I did:

In the Notebook with Vista and 2 GB:
Sometimes the system crashed and had to restart, especially when connected to the network. With local flights not notice problems.

The PC with Windows XP and 4GB:
Did not find any problem with both local flights as when connected to the network. It seems that with XP and more memory your system has an excellent behavior.

I think this version is ready for release.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 27, 2009, 07:10:12 PM
Hi CAM,

I nearly posted stats this morning although I was going to use 16% as my example!

Can you imagine 16-17% of 2500 Forum Users experiencing the same problem as you and Andy?

Nearly 400 users statistically...although the whole idea of a Public Beta is just that...a Public Beta.

Maybe release this Beta with the proviso to look out for the same problem as you two guys might be the way to go?

Regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Support on September 27, 2009, 08:16:28 PM
Customers won't see the public beta as a "test version". We also don't want to give the impression it has a fault as people with either not install it and or automatically assume they have the same issue.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 27, 2009, 08:56:19 PM
Agreed.  Release the public beta, but don't highlight potential faults, as others will "find" the same problem.

Maybe release with the normal "beta" warning.   Say that it's been tested by a small group of closed beta testers, and there may still be problems that need a wider public beta to identify any problems.

That was always the approach I took as a testing manager.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 28, 2009, 04:29:52 AM
The last full install is available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/ANRB306BetaSetup.exe

The upgrade (for users with V2.xx) is available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/ANRBUpgradeto306Beta.exe

Please download and install it and test it one more time. We had to make a last minute change to the 30003 port output but it should not interfere with the rest of the application.

Rgd the points above: we strongly believe they are computer related but let's wait for the public opinion. We are still releasing it to the public as a beta so we are open for more (minor) corrections.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 28, 2009, 08:41:48 AM
The last full install is available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/ANRB306BetaSetup.exe

The version number looks better - same as the last one I had now.

It still deleted my old logfile (MyLog.db3) when I installed over the last version.

Quote
We are still releasing it to the public as a beta so we are open for more (minor) corrections.

Any chance of getting RadarBox to remember the state of the "Connect to AirNav ACARS Decoder" checkbox, between restarts :)

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 28, 2009, 11:59:56 AM
I'm having a problem with V3.06 on the laptop when I use the altitude filter.  As soon as I select the filter on, the map freezes.  Everything else continues to work as normal, but the map becomes a 'window' and minimising RB and restoring it again shows the other program where the map window should be - see the screen shot below.

This is the same if just Live or Live and Network is selected.  I did recover this by right clicking on the map to bring up the 'close map' menu, closing the map and then opening a new 'default' map via the Map menu list - however, this didn't work one time I tried it.

I didn't have the laptop with me last week, so I'm not sure when this issue was intruduced, as it's not something I've seen before.  I'm running a fairly poor mobile broadband connection, but as this happens without the Network selected, I'm not sure if this is related.

V3.06 worked fine on the main PC at home.

As long as I don't use the altitude filter, everything looks OK.

Edit: Don't be mislead by the section of the RB map showing in the screen shot - this is Paintshop Pro with this screen shot showing 'through' RB, not the RB map.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 28, 2009, 12:29:09 PM
I'm having a problem with V3.06 on the laptop when I use the altitude filter.  As soon as I select the filter on, the map freezes. 

I've never used the altitude filter before. Just tried it now. No freezes, but interesting effect.

I selected Altitude < 8000

The flight info in the text interface filtered correctly, but all aircraft continued to be displayed on the radar screen - even those over 8000 feet!
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 28, 2009, 01:57:36 PM
Where did you select the altitude filter? In the advanced filter button right of the quick list filter on the top toolbar or over the flight grid?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 28, 2009, 02:11:25 PM
BTW we have tried both altitude filter option on 3 computers here and all performed as expected. If the problem still happens can you pls check if all altitude values for all flights are numbers?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 28, 2009, 02:26:54 PM
BTW we have tried both altitude filter option on 3 computers here and all performed as expected. If the problem still happens can you pls check if all altitude values for all flights are numbers?

I ran out of time testing this at lunchtime, but I'll get back to it tonight.  Initially I was using the Advanced menu and just accepting the default altitude filter levels 0-15000 ft, but I also tried this via the main Filter(?) menu with the same result.  I did manage to convince myself at at one point that if I put anything in the lower filter greater than zero, then it was OK, but I need to revisit this.  I use the altitude filter extensively when I'm here in London due to the high traffic density, so I'm not doing anything different.  I can't imagine why the altitude filter should affect the drawing of the map.  As nobody else has reported this and it only happens on my laptop, it's just a heads-up at the moment just in case it appears when released to the general public.

I'll do some more testing and try to pin this down this evening - it could be something completely unrelated to the RB software itself.  It's just odd how it happens without fail when I click that filter button. 
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 28, 2009, 02:29:09 PM
I'm having a problem with V3.06 on the laptop when I use the altitude filter.  As soon as I select the filter on, the map freezes. 

I've never used the altitude filter before. Just tried it now. No freezes, but interesting effect.

I selected Altitude < 8000

The flight info in the text interface filtered correctly, but all aircraft continued to be displayed on the radar screen - even those over 8000 feet!

I suspect that you are using the Quick Filters, not the Advanced Filters that allow you to filter aircraft on the map by altitude band, distance from a point or by aircraft type.  These filters work ONLY on the map, not the aircraft lists.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 28, 2009, 02:42:34 PM
Let's wait for the other. Anybody else having this problem?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 28, 2009, 03:43:24 PM
I've played around with various altitude filters, both Base FT and Top FT, and can't get the map to freeze.

Latest version seems okay to me - no problems.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 28, 2009, 05:11:58 PM
Advanced Altitude filtering is workinmg fine for me, but I an having trouble with the altitude Quick Filter, using < and > - it's just not working - see pic.

Other quick filters using = seem to work fine.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 28, 2009, 05:25:11 PM
Rod, if its the same as the Dist quick filter, you'll need to put leading zeros on the altitude - so 08000 for 8000ft.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 28, 2009, 05:39:48 PM
Ah - OK - I've only ever used the Advanced filter for altitude. Your tip works fine, but this behaviour is still a bit bug-like, isn't it? Mustn't let this delay the release, though.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 28, 2009, 06:22:02 PM
OK, I'm back and testing :-)

I've tried to repeat the altitude filter map freeze problem, and everything is working just as advertised now.  The only thing that I did different this evening was to put EGLL into the SmartView > Select Airports box and hit Enter.  This box was empty but the Auto Set QNH was ticked.  Is there any chance that this was the problem?

A bit of background on how I ended up here:

- Renamed my RadarBox directory to avoid overwriting with the new install.

- Did a completely new install using the full download posted.

- Ran this new install briefly to make sure all was OK

- Exited RB and renamed the new install directory to New

- Renamed my previous RB directory to the correct name.

- Copied the anrb.exe from the new installation to my original directory to give me all my custom outlines, D008.dat file etc

- Ran RB (new exe in old directory) and this is what gave me the empty Select Airports box.

Maybe nothing to do with my map freeze problem, but that's the whole story :0)

RB running without any problems now with the Altitude filter set to 0-15000.  Testing continues, but everything looks good!
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 28, 2009, 08:32:22 PM
Still testing and still running fine - solid as a rock :-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 28, 2009, 08:32:58 PM
Same here :-)

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 28, 2009, 09:06:59 PM
No problems with mine on three PC's
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Frank on September 28, 2009, 09:32:14 PM
Very stable, no problems om my PC's either


Frank
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 28, 2009, 10:01:27 PM
I suspect that you are using the Quick Filters, not the Advanced Filters that allow you to filter aircraft on the map by altitude band, distance from a point or by aircraft type.  These filters work ONLY on the map, not the aircraft lists.

yes I was only using the quick filter. I'll try the advanced filter when I get home tonight - if your problem has now gone away after a fresh install, I suspect mine will be fine too. Give me 8 hours or so for an update (these timezones are a killer for quick replies sometimes...)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 29, 2009, 01:39:25 AM
So we will consider this version as the final one. We're just waiting to have the latest version of the flags/logos files.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 29, 2009, 05:13:24 AM
As I said before this is the best version I have seen so far...i hesitate to use words like rock-solid, perfect etc. but it looks like we have a winner!

Thanks AirNav...

I am also starting yet again from a virgin database to rule out any problems that might be in the 9,000+ database from the beginning of September.

One thing I notice when installing a new version - although it remembers preferences, Alerts etc. I always have to fill out the SmartView details which loses all of my previous registrations.

Not a major problem of course just wondering why the discrepancy - surely if it remembers Alert details than it should be consistent and also remember SmartView details?

Thanks & regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 29, 2009, 06:33:25 AM
tried the advanced filter - no lockups here - all working as expected.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 29, 2009, 07:41:12 AM
We're just waiting to have the latest version of the flags/logos files.

You should already have the latest D008.dat file and FLAGS folder from me.  See post #153
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 29, 2009, 02:07:47 PM
Tarbat: I confirm we have it on our setup but RodBearden reported we didn't have. So I'm waiting for his reply to give release the version to the public.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 29, 2009, 02:51:32 PM
Quick question for you guys using Vista...I hear things about the Virtual Store and a friend of mine always seems to lose his database when upgrading.

What is the best way of installing the full 3.06 Beta version on a Vista system leaving his existing ANRB setup intact please?

A quick search for virtual store returned no hits...

Just how do you Vista guys here install new releases?

Thanks & regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 29, 2009, 03:28:57 PM
I sent the latest logos to Andre last week, and again today - today's file contains 2000 logos!

Some of them are duplicates for multiple registrations, but we don't need to point that out ;-)

I hope the AirNav email system is working OK now.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 29, 2009, 06:05:00 PM
We got everything and the latest, final release is below.
Please review it and we will make it available to the public tonight.

The last full install is available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/ANRB306BetaSetup.exe

The upgrade (for users with V2.xx) is available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/ANRBUpgradeto306Beta.exe
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 29, 2009, 07:12:35 PM
The last full install is available at:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/download/anrb/beta/ANRB306BetaSetup.exe

When I try to start the full install I always get the message 'The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program'. I suppose there i something wrong here... (downloaded the setup-file several times)

Regards,

Dirk.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 29, 2009, 07:13:56 PM
Dirk,

What is the size of your downloaded file?  Maybe you haven't got the whole file?
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 29, 2009, 07:20:51 PM
Hi Allocator,

The size of the file is 101.344 kB.

Greetz,

Dirk.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 29, 2009, 07:22:29 PM

The size of the file is 101.344 kB.



Just downloaded the file a fourth time, same size 101.344 kB.

Greetz,

Dirk.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Support on September 29, 2009, 07:43:53 PM
The file is 100mb and seems to be fine and others can download it. Try restarting your machine and download to a different area and it should be fine.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 29, 2009, 08:09:34 PM
I'm having the same problems as DVDW. I too will reboot and download again.

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 29, 2009, 08:12:55 PM
I get the same error.  It took ages to download - >20 minutes.  Has anyone downloaded this okay?

I won't be able to beta test tomorrow - hospital again.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2661/3967099284_16b0210dee_o.jpg)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 29, 2009, 08:18:13 PM
Hi Airnav,

Restarted the computer and downloaded the file to another location but no joy...
Still the same result 'The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program'

Regards,

Dirk.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 29, 2009, 08:20:48 PM
Download tooks about 5 minutes overhere, speed around 400 kb/sec.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 29, 2009, 08:32:39 PM
On slow mobile broadband I'm afraid, with an estimate of 1 hr 30 min to download this, so I can't test the download I'm afraid.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 29, 2009, 08:34:46 PM
We are uploading them again. Stby.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 29, 2009, 08:38:09 PM
I will check tomorrow morning... Going to sleep now, early work :-(
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 29, 2009, 09:31:39 PM
Please try again now. Both files are there and ready.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 29, 2009, 10:15:59 PM
I had a similar problem with the previous full 3.06 download yesterday - when I double-clicked the file it reported the package was corrupt.

Downloaded it again earlier today and it was fine...

Just taking this latest one and it seems to be downloading OK although slow at @150KB/sec

By way of comparison while this is still downloading I can pull down a file from Symantec @ 500KB/sec...

No major problem...it will take a while longer that's all...
.
.
.
The latest full package downloaded with no issues and installed correctly.

As I have mentioned before though although it remembers most of my preferences I have to populate the SmartView registrations every time I install a new version.

To retain consistency shouldn't this pick up the previous settings?

Testing commenced!

Regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 29, 2009, 10:21:37 PM
Ahhh... that's better - downloaded successfully, and the correct flags and logos are there. As Glyn says, all the settings apart from SmartView have transferred OK.

If this is exactly the same ANRB.exe as the previous release, and I suspect it is, it looks good to go!

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 29, 2009, 10:23:56 PM
One big issue that has been mentioned before and has just struck me down...again

If when you load ANRB and then choose not to run it by clicking Cancel the next time you run it you get the default screen with the Vertical Tracking View at the bottom and no interface.

Also gone is the complete Alerts list preferences, Smartview of course, default METAR & Home Location amongst others...God only knows what else?

If you then go to run a previous version it too has lost its settings...

Really annoying and totally unecessary in my opinion.

Just what is it with AirNav and User Preferences anyway??

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 29, 2009, 10:31:43 PM
I'll leave the new version running overnight, but I see it's exactly the same .EXE as the previous release, so don't expect any problems.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 29, 2009, 10:36:07 PM
The same .exe?

Well I am seeing that damn sleepy pointer and some strange menu behaviour back again...too coincidental to be anything but the latest version I have just installed and run...

When I am navigating the menus (as I need to do to reset all of the settings lost as per my last post) the menu will sometimes disappear leaving just the menu name in the title bar highlighted.

I can run my mouse along the title bar and as I do each menu name, File, Filters, Map, Tools, Window, Help etc. will highlight to show which menu is selected but the menu does not show.

I then have to click the bar again to actually display the menu...

<sigh>

Do I sound frustrated?

Regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 29, 2009, 10:49:07 PM
Glyn: can you send me, ASAP, an email? You have my email address on your messages folder of this forum.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 29, 2009, 11:03:43 PM
"If when you load ANRB and then choose not to run it by clicking Cancel the next time you run it you get the default screen with the Vertical Tracking View at the bottom and no interface."

Corrected.

"Also gone is the complete Alerts list preferences, Smartview of course, default METAR & Home Location amongst others...God only knows what else?"

Have installed the upgrade, the full version or just replaced the exe?

"When I am navigating the menus (as I need to do to reset all of the settings lost as per my last post) the menu will sometimes disappear leaving just the menu name in the title bar highlighted."

Please drop me an email regarding this one ASAP.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 29, 2009, 11:29:00 PM
Thanks for the correction...as I have been caught out before I keep all of my Alerts in a spreadsheet ready for quick input into ANRB but its really annoying all the same!

OK...I have sent you an email as requested but I do have to be up for work in less than 5 hours...

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 30, 2009, 12:12:25 AM
We haven't received any email from GlynH so we will have to wait one more day for the final release.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 30, 2009, 12:38:07 AM
Well I waited over an hour for a reply Andre but I guess you must be busy so I am off to bed now as it is 1:40 in the morning here and my alram is set for 5:15 :-(

Regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 30, 2009, 01:09:55 AM
We haven't received any email from GlynH

Sometimes its a bit difficult to work out where to email you, your signoff says [email protected] but your profile says [email protected] :)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 30, 2009, 01:19:51 AM
[email protected] should not be used. It is our customer support email.
You should always use [email protected] to contact me directly. I'm sorry for the problem.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 30, 2009, 04:55:25 AM
But your pm also gave another email address where you were supposed to be online at that time and bearing in mind there have been problems with your email address at airnavsystems.com I sent it to the alternative address you left...

The last time I ran ANRB before going to bed just 4 hours ago it sat there displaying the start-up splash screen for an extended period of time...

TaskManager reported ANRB.exe as Not Responding but then after a few minutes it decided to start.

This was following the fresh install and a reboot using the default databases (small) which usually speed up the loading process.

I have not/will not have time to test again most of the day as I need to be out of the door shortly for work...

As my last email said as I seem to be the lone voice in the wilderness again so why not just go ahead and release it anyway?

Regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 30, 2009, 07:10:30 AM
Downloaded the latest full install and so far all is working well.

No delays or hangups.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: DVDW on September 30, 2009, 09:38:23 AM
Same overhere, downloaded the new version of the latest full install, no problem with corrupted files this time and everything is working smooth and well.

Regards,

Dirk.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 30, 2009, 10:01:56 AM
All good here, other than the full install overwriting my existing log file.

fwiw - Also running with the new Microsoft Security Essentials, no impact noted.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Allocator on September 30, 2009, 11:26:21 AM
All good here, other than the full install overwriting my existing log file.

fwiw - Also running with the new Microsoft Security Essentials, no impact noted.

Always a good idea to rename your existing RB directory so that the 'fresh' install doesn't overwrite anything - or to prevent having a mixture of old/new files.

It's also easy to then copy across your database files from the old installation to the new one if you want to.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: Frank on September 30, 2009, 11:39:56 AM
Still looking good hé, thumbs up again

Frank
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: pjm on September 30, 2009, 11:41:49 AM
wow - that looks pretty good to me too - I must have downloaded the wrong version :)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 30, 2009, 11:55:26 AM
Which button do you click to get her popping up?  Mustn't press it when the wife's around!

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 30, 2009, 01:51:55 PM
We are just waiting for Glyn's email...if anyone can contact him pls do so ASAP and tell him to send me an email to [email protected]
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 30, 2009, 02:14:38 PM

As my last email said as I seem to be the lone voice in the wilderness again so why not just go ahead and release it anyway?


Glynn has suggested that you go ahead without him. Bratters is getting over-excited over on the main board!

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 30, 2009, 03:28:54 PM
Since Glyn said go ahead I think you should release it now, it is still only a beta.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: tarbat on September 30, 2009, 05:31:48 PM
Agreed.  Release the public beta.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 30, 2009, 06:20:22 PM
On this last exe we have change the 30003 share settings from 10 secs to 1 sec. We are afraid this may be causing Glyn's problem so we prefer to wait for his approval. I'm still waiting for his contact.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 30, 2009, 09:44:05 PM
Still no news from Glyn and we will have to delay it for one more day. :-(
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: EMA on September 30, 2009, 09:49:35 PM
The irony is that Glyn posted in the new beta thread that it was soon to be released and he is the one we are waiting for.

Still he did say go ahead.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: RodBearden on September 30, 2009, 09:55:33 PM
Dev - are you going to tell all the people waiting on the main forum?

Rod
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: GlynH on September 30, 2009, 10:23:20 PM
Well I've just got in after an 18 hour day, come straight upstairs into the office, installed the latest Beta and still see the busy pointer when navigating the menus but it doesn't stop me selecting anything.

I would feel much better if you released this version that no-one else has a problem with as I have always been a lone voice in the wilderness when it comes to this particular problem...

I also have to be up early - 4:30am this time so can only afford to spend an hour or so at most on ANRB which will give me a second night of only 4 hours sleep.

The irony is I've done nothing all week and so had loads of time on my hands...

I'm going to get myself a drink now and try to chill in what is left of my evening...

Regards,
-=Glyn=-
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on September 30, 2009, 11:04:46 PM
We are already in contact with Glyn. :-)
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on October 01, 2009, 12:47:35 AM
We are releasing now V3.06 Beta to the public.

In the name of all our team I would like to personally say thanks to all of you for the remarkable, outstanding and day by day job you have been doing to help our hobby and for us to have a better RadarBox software.

You already know but I would like to say again that we will never stop working to improve AirNav RadarBox and AirNav Systems products in general. The most important part of this is to keep all our users happy. With the user base growing week after week we need to work harder to keep all of them happy.

We are also announcing the release of "AirNav RadarBox Network - Real-Time" to all the users (not just professionals). This is a great effort from our part and will turn RadarBox into a much better product. After this AirNav RadarBox 3D will follow.

We are also announcing today the acquisition by AirNav Systems of shipspotting.com, the world's biggest marine related website (especially for enthusiasts). We already have our team working on a new version of the site which will make it the airliners.net of shipping.

Now we expect hard work on the forum: pls help us with all those users with question, suggestion and...of course, complaints. :-)

Tks again!!!

PS: we still have Glyn and CAM reporting some problems and we are dealing with them by email directly. This is still a beta version so we expect some users (a very small number) to still report some minor problems on the forum.
Title: Re: V3.05 Available
Post by: AirNav Development on October 01, 2009, 12:47:57 AM
I will lock this topic so we organize the conversation in another one.