PlanePlotter Version 6.4.2.4 Released

[IanH]

It's an unsupported feature, always has been - not a BUG.

So why publicise it?

If it's available AND documented, people will use it.

If it is being withdrawn, ok I have to live with that and try to find an alternative.

But this was an unintentional effect of "improvements".

And for me, nothing added seems to be of use!

[satcom]

Just trying to get up to speed on this one after a day out of the loop.

If you are trying to overlay outlines on a charts . that never has been a feature of PP , but Bev explained that you could do it by changing the registry...as Tom says , it was undocumented for a reason.....to stop folk dabbling in the registry.
If it was a feature , it would have been in chart options...overlay outlines on charts.

I think when Bev has  mentioned it, he has always refered to it as undocumented with the caveat that only if you are happy to change the registry should you try it.

AIP data "is" now available to overlay data on charts and has been for a while.

The latest addition , to add selected outlines is aimed at  standard users. It may have affected those who have "modified" their sw  in some way , and that is being investigated.

No great drama................and unlike the majority of sw writers  , Bev will respond
very quickly to any requests provided the problem is accurately described and the request is made via the group so that we can assess how many users are affected.

[Anmer]

I'm not in a position to test this myself but would just like to make a comment.

If upgrading to a new version (and not making any changes to the existing setup) results in a software malfunction, surely there's something different between the versions. 

To me that's a "bug".

[kered]

I installed the new vwersion yesterday and all seemed ok, after my morning reboot PP wont even start and crashes on trying to open. reinstalled a previos version and same thing, doing a system restore now to see what happens

Update
After restore all ok but with version 6.4.2.1, re installed 6.4.2.4 and seams ok, the only diference now is a windows critical update on the 4/09 which is the restore point i went back to

[satcom]

I'd agree with the bug if it was affecting all users , but it isn't , just a handful who have "mofified" their registry files .

Either way , Bev has it in hand and will shortly be releasing an update thus catering for an extremely small minority of users.................thats what you call  a service !

[IanH]

Version 6.2.4.5 is now available which fixes the "outline on charts" problem for me.

Grateful to Bev for the quick fix (he probably regrets admitting to the option now  )

[Triple7]

After a false start with 6.4.2.4 and 5 resulting in a completely white chart, I thought I'd try something ...... so I went into options>>chart>>GPX Overlay>>Select GPX overlay, at that point PP crashed out. I restarted PP and repeated similar for outlines ... Options>>Chart>>Outline>>Select outlines, selected all, still a white screen. I repeated the GPX bit and bingo the screen is back as it should be.

Thinking about it, the 'white screen' occurred after I'd been into the GPX selection option when using 6.4.2.4.

Glad it's all sorted and I have posted my thanks to Bev on the PP Group.

Tim