MELKOR Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Pete, While ShortAircraftNameOk is a great feature, I have a suggestion to make it even better. :wink: What I really care about is the aircraft TYPE (i.e. 737, 747, etc) when I'm matching aircraft to a particular configuration. Unfortunately, the aircraft title (as listed in aircraft.cfg, and which FSUIPC seems to key on) varies wildly by vendor (and even _within_ a vendor! - for example, PMDG). My suggestion is: create a new .ini setting to allow ShortAircraftNameOk to perform a _substring_ search within the title. Now, fortunately, I do have a viable workaround: I have edited all of my aircraft.cfg files such that have a consistent title prefix. Let me know what you think... Thanks! - Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 What I really care about is the aircraft TYPE (i.e. 737, 747, etc) when I'm matching aircraft to a particular configuration. Unfortunately, the aircraft title (as listed in aircraft.cfg, and which FSUIPC seems to key on) varies wildly by vendor (and even _within_ a vendor! - for example, PMDG). It isn't just FSUIPC which 'keys' on the aircraft title, it's the whole system -- that's how FS identifies the aircraft from the FLT file when that's loaded. It is that which gives it a place in the selection dialogue. There is a TYPE variable, but that is obtained later, after the loading is complete -- I need to switch things a little earlier. Also the TYPE is one used for ATC and can sometimes be misleading. My suggestion is: create a new .ini setting to allow ShortAircraftNameOk to perform a _substring_ search within the title. Oh, right. Still using the title.Yes, that would be easy enough. I'll make a note for the next update. Thanks, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MELKOR Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Thanks Pete! - Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Hi Bill, Try interim test version 3.651 attached. I've not done exhaustive testing, but is seems to work okay so far. "ShortaircraftNameOk=Substring" (actually "sub" will do -- it fills in the rest). Regards, Pete FSUIPC3651test.Zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MELKOR Posted July 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Hi Pete! Yes, the Substring setting seems to work fine...thank you for the fine addition!! - Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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