Orphalese Tarot Zone Community Forum

Dear Richard:

I already installed the Beta 6.5. I check most of the progran features and they are running smothly. The readings management tool is superb!! and is working ok. The cards backs are showing ok.

The only thing I notice is that when I marked the full screen feature, a little window shows telling that it will show up next time I start the program.

The program is very slow at starting, but I know is because I have about 100 decks!!!

Thanks for the excellent work,

Aurora

Hi Aurora

Thanks for the feedback. The full screen option has actually been like that for a while. I noticed that switching between full screen and normal view sometimes doesn't work quite right, so I made it that the preference is only applied when the program starts up.

Your comment about the program being slow at starting up has given me an idea. I just posted a reply a suggestion of Scorp's - if you look at that post you will see what I am thinking about.

BTW Although it is true that having a lot of decks will slow the program's startup (because it takes longer to build the menu) part of the problem is that all .NET programs are slow to start up on current versions of Windows. It is worth remembering that .NET is still very much a new technology. The next version of Windows (it hasn't been named yet but it is referred to as Longhorn by Microsoft developers) will be specifically geared towards .NET, so the situation will be reversed: traditional (non .NET) programs will be slower to load than programs like the Orphalese Tarot, or they won't run at all. This program is written with an eye to the future!

Cheers
Richard