Help with ERJ.gauge

[ohdooc]

Pete,

First I would like to thank you for all the work you have put into FSimming.

I finally decided to pay my share and got a registered version of FSUIPC. I am having a great deal of problem with getting the ERJ.gauge application to work. I keep getting a CTD when I try to load a plane with this gauge. The error says it is in the module itself.

Strangely I have been using Bill Grabowski's ERJ panel for years with no problems until I upgraded to your latest module. I vaguely remember registering the gauge itself with some of your older FSUIPC modules, but I can't do that with the most recent. Any ideas what happened?

Thanks.

Tom Valley

[Pete Dowson]

I am having a great deal of problem with getting the ERJ.gauge application to work. I keep getting a CTD when I try to load a plane with this gauge. The error says it is in the module itself.

sorry, there is really no way I can diagnose problems with individual gauges.

Strangely I have been using Bill Grabowski's ERJ panel for years with no problems until I upgraded to your latest module. I vaguely remember registering the gauge itself with some of your older FSUIPC modules, but I can't do that with the most recent.

Gauge registration isn't needed now. Please ask Bill what is happening. I'm sure he can sort it out.

Regards

Pete

[ohdooc]

Pete,

Thanks for your quick reply. Do you have Bill's contact information? The one's that I have are out of date.

Tom

[Pete Dowson]

Thanks for your quick reply. Do you have Bill's contact information? The one's that I have are out of date.

Sorry, no. I don't think I ever did.

If you want me to hazard a guess, try again, enabling FSUIPC "IPC read" and "IPC write" logging (in the FSUIPC options, Logging menu), then run the culprit aircraft/gauge, get the problem, close FS (if it hasn't crashed) and show me the FSUIPC Log file which you'll find in the FS Modules folder.

I don't hold out much hope as on a crash the Log is usually well behing what happened, but you never know.

A crash in a gauge is almost always a sign of either an incompatibility with that version of FS, or a definite programming error, so either way I think you will eventually need the author to help.

BTW if you are not a registered user of FSUIPC, make sure you are not attempting to use any suspect keys for it -- delete the FSUIPC.KEY file from the Modules folder then try again. If you are not registered you are not losing anything by deleting it. Some bad (especially pirated) keys will make FSUIPC supply bad data to programs.

Regards

Pete