Mesage Filter Question

[CTyankee]

With the new Message Filter feature Is there a limit of a single entry of a given filter type, thereby providing for a maximum of 8 character strings, or can we have more than one entry of a given filter type, thereby providing for an unlimited number of character strings?

For example, is this possible?

[MessageFilters]

SingleLine=***

SingleLine=***

Regards,

Sandy

[Pete Dowson]

With the new Message Filter feature Is there a limit of a single entry of a given filter type, thereby providing for a maximum of 8 character strings, or can we have more than one entry of a given filter type, thereby providing for an unlimited number of character strings?

For example, is this possible?

[MessageFilters]

SingleLine=***

SingleLine=***

No, not at present. Only as described. Just one parameter of each of the three types, each with up to 8 strings listed of up to 16 characters each.

e.g.

SingleLine="string1","another","even more","et cetera"

It's a bit of an emergency measure to deal with a newer version of FDC which for some reason add New Line characters to the ends of its progress messages and so gets them routed to the multiline window, destroying things like radar Contact's menus. I'm discussing possible better measures with RC's author at present -- this was an interim thing and added quite crudely.

No Windows "profile" type INI file is ever allowed multiple lines with the same parameter name in the same section, it's the way the profile API works. This is why many INI and CFG files you see use ".1", .2" etc postfixes on the names, as in FS's Gauge lists in the Panel.CFG files.

What is your application for this?

Regards,

Sandy

Oh, are you the Sandy I did it for>

Pete

[CTyankee]

Yes, the same.

At this point I have no idea how many different messages FDC sends to the display. I hope that 8 strings are sufficient.

I appreciate your providing this workaround.

Regards,

Sandy