TWO QUESTIONS FOR PETE

[ED SHIPLEY]

HI PETE,

The two questions I have for you are not related to your software.

However, your software is so great you have to know just about

everything that goes on in the FS software. I have tried to get an

answer to my first question on many forums and failed.

FIRST QUESTION ???????

I am new to editing XML files and my budget will not allow the

purchase of the software available. I have been editing XML

files in the FS2004 software package. So far thru trial and

error I have been able to do what I want. However, I have

hit a brick wall with one file I want to build. In the example

below you see the "Click Event" TOGGLE_AIRCRAFT_EXIT,

this will open and close the aircraft exit doors. In the file

I want to build I want the "Click Event" to duplicate a keyboard

entry of ("Shift" + "+" + " ] ".

IS THIS POSSIBLE ????????????

Canopy Open/Close

SECOND QUESTION ?????????

Is there a freeware weather radar package that will used your

FSUIPC and show the REAL WEATHER that your are flying in ??????

Thanks Pete,

I hate to bug you, but in my book you are the GURU of the

FS world

ED

zig1065ed@covcable.com

[Pete Dowson]

... you have to know just about

everything that goes on in the FS software.

No, no. That is far from true. I only know about the areas I've had to investigate in order to make my programs. I know nothing, for instance, about the graphics, the sound, aircraft design, panel design and scenery.

I am new to editing XML files ...

I am not only new, I have tried looking and given up in disgust. They are completely alien to all I know and do in programming. I come from a hardware engineering programming background. Even C is really rather too high level, but at least I have a jolly good idea what it means at the hardware level. I prefer Assembly code. XML is the complete opposite. It is so far away from what I know as "programming" that I hated it the moment I saw it. I even got an idiot's guide to it and gave that up too!

So, I am very sorry but I really haven't a cluse about your XML problem. Maybe some other reader will be able to help, but really you want an aircraft & panel designer's forum. Isn't there one somewhere?

Is there a freeware weather radar package that will used your

FSUIPC and show the REAL WEATHER that your are flying in ??????

I don't know of one, but then the only ones I know of are Florian Praxmarer's programs like SA_WXR. These aren't free, but are reasonably cheap.

Regards,

Pete