Distant Suns 2.1

Posted by proxima | Filed under Uncategorized

Apple just approved Distant Suns 2.1 for sale. I did receive one note reporting an installation oddity, but he said a relaunching the app cleared it up. I am investigating though.

This just in: (imagine teletypes in the background). If you experience an exit on startup, what is happening is this: I only recently learned that the iPhone has a watchdog timer that limits the amount of time it takes for an app to load. If it goes too long (15 or 20 secs) the iPhone will kill it. The timer is disabled via the dev system, so I rarely came across it. On first use, Distant Suns will fetch the sun’s image that is displayed with the sun’s data. That can be just enough to push it over the line. Relaunching it, it knows not to get a new sun image for a while, and it’s happy.

Permalink | January 22nd, 2010

3 Responses to “Distant Suns 2.1”

  1. Danny Says:
    January 23rd, 2010 at 3:08 am

    Hello! I have been using distant suns since the begining and I just tried out the updated software and I’m liking it a lot. Especially the clock. Very nice! You did a very good job. Look forward for more upamdates!

    What dies the twilight planer do?

  2. proxima Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 6:41 pm

    The Twilight Planner uses the video camera with the DS graphics on top. SO you can see roughly were things are going to be before the sky turns dark, relative to your own landscape. Probably more of a gimmick, but it was easy to add and looks cool. which of course, counts for a lot on the iPhone. :-)

  3. James Good Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 4:28 am

    Hi! Long term (amiga first version) user here! On my 3g, the planner crashes me out back to the launcher immediately. Is it a 3gs feature only (you said ‘video camera’).

    Cheers,

    -James.

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