Comment Feed for WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version (Coffeehouse on Channel 9)

Re: Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Jonathan Fay — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:17:02 GMT

I can't repro a problem by switching to "Netherlands" for region setting on my Vista64 box.

You may be seeing the Win7 issue. It may be ACL related... I will post when I have any more info..

Re: Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Jonathan Fay — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:10:28 GMT

It you switch your region to US English does it work? Or fail? Just trying to isolate it.

Jonathan

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

magicalclick — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:33:40 GMT

Mine works. Win7 Beta. The silverlight pops-up a request more storage window and I click yes, then, everything is working. The photo loading is faster than before, cool.

Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Tommy Carlier — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:32:56 GMT

I already have the full Windows Client installed at home and I think it's awesome. I was just curious how well the Silverlight version would perform. (and the Silverlight version is great to run at work ;-))

Re: Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Charles — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:17:21 GMT

I've FW'd these issues to a Silverlight evangelist who will then FW to the appropriate Silverlight devs.
C

Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Sven Groot — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:45:28 GMT

Again, I'm not running a localized version of Windows. Only my regional settings are Dutch, everything else is English. And the problem occurs in both IE8 and Firefox (I'm using Win7 x64, for reference).

Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Jonathan Fay — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:44:05 GMT

We are looking into this issue, and a related issue with IE8 under Win7 beta. It seem to be related to some Belgian and Dutch localized Windows clients.

You could try running it under another browser as a work-around until we can figure this our, or just install the full Windows Client. If you *can* run the Windows client you get much more functionality and 60FPS GPU accelerated performanced that can't be matched in a browser.

Jonathan

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

sanatgersappa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:11:37 GMT

Cool stuff. Works like a charm!

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Bas — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:05:25 GMT

Tried it in IE8, still the same thing. Even better, despite IE8 having every tab as a separate instance, it still managed to freeze up all of IE.

This sucks, guys.

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Harlequin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:03:06 GMT

That's gotta be the smoothest "deep zoom" image quaility changes I've seen. None of that choppy loading-pieces you get with online maps.

Nice...

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

CreamFilling512 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:25:07 GMT

Works fine on 3 different machines here, all running Win7.

Re: Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:07:51 GMT

It crashes on both my machines as well. One is running Win7 x64 and IE8, the other Vista x64 and IE8.

Re: Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Sven Groot — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:31:24 GMT

I'm using an English version of Windows though, and my IE language is also set to en-us. Only my regional settings are Dutch.

Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Tommy Carlier — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:44:14 GMT

I think it's some kind of localization bug, since only Belgian and Dutch people seem to be affected. I filed a bug report and got a reply that they couldn't reproduce the problem yet.

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Sven Groot — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:34:43 GMT

It crashes here too. IE8 tries to recover the tab, it immediately crashes again, and I get the "couldn't recover tab" message. There is nothing in the event log.

EDIT: It also crashes Firefox, so it's Silverlight, not the browser.

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Bas — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:45:43 GMT

Sounds awesome, but it popped up a message about registering a JIT debugger and then froze up IE7. Gonna try to get this to work tomorrow.

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Charles — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:32:14 GMT

Very cool!!
C

Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

Tommy Carlier — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:30:25 GMT

Maybe they don't like Belgians :-(

Re: Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

stevo_ — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:28:39 GMT

Worked for me (ie8).. pretty cool

Re: WorldWide Telescope: Silverlight version

CKurt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:20:05 GMT

I tried it. IE8 gave popup and failed loading page...