Download ChronosXP 2.8 beta

ChronosXP is an application that expresses time in ‘planet hours‘, this designation was coined on the basis of the astrological system of order of the planets according to the Chaldeans. The program is located in the system tray and uses symbols to indicate the time. Version 2.8 beta was recently released with the following changelog:

This entire beta version mainly revolved around increasing user-friendliness and simplifying things. The program was starting to become over-complicated. If you have an 11th house Virgo stellium that’s fine. But most people don’t so an effort was made to keep the program feature-rich but at the same time manageable by the novice computer user.

• tabPage background colors in the Properties form are set based on whether or not a visual style is in use.
• Redesign of the Planetary Hours Calendar; focus on user-friendliness and cleanliness. Take a look at Calendar.OnPaintBackground and Calendar.drawStatusBarPanel. Our OnPaintBackground override here divides the form into 2 regions (3 if you count the statusbar.) The left side is a user-input region, the right side is a data region.
• Various OnPaintBackground overrides with LinearGradientBrush work.
• Calendar.drawStatusBarPanel: drawing our own StatusBarPanels (TODO: add icon support)
• Previously the Windows Installer added two registry values, namely under the “Run” key (for automatically starting ChronosXP) and a probably-meaningless EnableBalloonWindowSupport value. Whenever a user deselected the “auto-start ChronosXP” option, the next time they started the program, Windows installer would re-set the registry value. To get around this, the registry value is now initially set by ChronosXPInstaller.

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