Greetings,
I have repackaged the distributions to deploy the required Qt MSVC plugins and automatically detect and install the MS VC++ runtime dependencies.
However, there remains a nagging issue of intermittent crashes at startup. I'm convinced it is linked to the exchange between Qt and the OS but I have not yet found the source of the problem - even after several debugging sessions and a ton or research.
If you experience a crash (or series of crashes), just restart the application a few times. You may encounter about 1-4 crashes back-to-back and then the application will launch again normally. This is a very strange issue.
I can say with version 2.0, I am reminded of why I dislike so much the Visual Studio/Visual C++ dev platform
As before, you can download from Sourceforge.net or run check for updates from within the application.
Up-to-date change log:
LPub3D 2.0.2.721.2
Features and enhancements
------------
-Fix: Add all Visual C++ dependencies to installation and portable distributions including VC++ 2015 redistributable runtime libraries (r720)
*Repackaged all distributions to incorporate all MSVC 2015 required dependency libraries. The Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 is also included in the portable distributions. For the executable installation distribution, the installation program will check if the required libraries exist before silently installing the respective Visual C++ redistributable.
-Known Issue: Storing and retrieving the screen pos[ition], size, state and geometry settings appear to be causing intermittent crash on startup - at the end of the splash screen display. (r718/r719)
*This functionality has been disabled for the moment while I investigate. This unexpected behavior was introduced with the Qt5.6/MSVC 2015 development platform. The change you may notice is that the application no longer starts on the screen you last close it. Instead, it will will always start at the same location. While I have experienced this behavior on a multi-screen display configuraion, there are reports that this behavior also exist on single-screen displays.
-Fix: Disable search directory validation in Preferences dialog - temporary workaround (r721)
*Warnings are displayed when there are no unofficial subdirectories under the LDraw directory. In such case no warnings should be displayed.
I have repackaged the distributions to deploy the required Qt MSVC plugins and automatically detect and install the MS VC++ runtime dependencies.
However, there remains a nagging issue of intermittent crashes at startup. I'm convinced it is linked to the exchange between Qt and the OS but I have not yet found the source of the problem - even after several debugging sessions and a ton or research.
If you experience a crash (or series of crashes), just restart the application a few times. You may encounter about 1-4 crashes back-to-back and then the application will launch again normally. This is a very strange issue.
I can say with version 2.0, I am reminded of why I dislike so much the Visual Studio/Visual C++ dev platform
As before, you can download from Sourceforge.net or run check for updates from within the application.
Up-to-date change log:
LPub3D 2.0.2.721.2
Features and enhancements
------------
-Fix: Add all Visual C++ dependencies to installation and portable distributions including VC++ 2015 redistributable runtime libraries (r720)
*Repackaged all distributions to incorporate all MSVC 2015 required dependency libraries. The Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 is also included in the portable distributions. For the executable installation distribution, the installation program will check if the required libraries exist before silently installing the respective Visual C++ redistributable.
-Known Issue: Storing and retrieving the screen pos[ition], size, state and geometry settings appear to be causing intermittent crash on startup - at the end of the splash screen display. (r718/r719)
*This functionality has been disabled for the moment while I investigate. This unexpected behavior was introduced with the Qt5.6/MSVC 2015 development platform. The change you may notice is that the application no longer starts on the screen you last close it. Instead, it will will always start at the same location. While I have experienced this behavior on a multi-screen display configuraion, there are reports that this behavior also exist on single-screen displays.
-Fix: Disable search directory validation in Preferences dialog - temporary workaround (r721)
*Warnings are displayed when there are no unofficial subdirectories under the LDraw directory. In such case no warnings should be displayed.