Aircraft names in Profiles

[hkpgr]

Hi All

I have just started to use Joystick Calibration via FSUIPC so pelase bear over with me if this question already has been answered. I did a search with no success - perhaps using a wrong search word.

I have a zillion repaints of some of my planes. Is there a smart way to avoid listing all of these repaints in the Profiles list, so you only use one name per Aircraft? :?:

Regards

Henrik Korning Pedersen

Nuuk

Greenland

[Pete Dowson]

I have a zillion repaints of some of my planes. Is there a smart way to avoid listing all of these repaints in the Profiles list, so you only use one name per Aircraft?

Which profiles list? The one in the INI file? If you mean the drop-down selection instead, you should have NO aircraft names in there.

For the INI file list, just set "ShortAircraftNameOk=substring" (instead of "No") in the [General] section of the INI file, and use any reasonably unique part of the aircraft name, one which matches all of them somewhere. eg. "Boeing", or ~"MD11" or "747"etc.

Pete

[hkpgr]

Hi Peter

Yes I suppose :shock: - thats what I mean. I think I made a mistake by editing the INI file to read "ShortAircraftNameOk=Yes" instead of "substring".

I actually have been reading in the "Advanced users Guide", but didn't catch it all the first time. I think I now understand how it works, i.e. Instead of "Aeroworx Kingair B200 ADAC 2D cockpit...etc." - I only use the "Aeroworx Kingair B200" string. It then should work on all of my Aeroworx kingair's by only having one line in the FSUIPC.ini files Profiles section.

Is this correct? 8)

BTW my joysticks now are perfect calibrated as never before. BIG THANKS.

Regards

Henrik

[Pete Dowson]

I think I made a mistake by editing the INI file to read "ShortAircraftNameOk=Yes" instead of "substring".

That works too, but it is more restrictive -- you can only abbreviate the name (i.e. chop parts off the end), not take part of the name from the middle.

I actually have been reading in the "Advanced users Guide", but didn't catch it all the first time. I think I now understand how it works, i.e. Instead of "Aeroworx Kingair B200 ADAC 2D cockpit...etc." - I only use the "Aeroworx Kingair B200" string. It then should work on all of my Aeroworx kingair's by only having one line in the FSUIPC.ini files Profiles section.

Is this correct? 8)

Yes -- that will work the same for both the "Yes" and "Substring" options, because it is an abbreviation. With "Substring" you could have "Kingair B200" or just "B200".

Note that the list can be quite long with no real worries. It is easy enough to simply assign your named Profile (whatever it is named) when you first load an aircraft, without worrying about the names themselves, or editing the INI file.

Regards

Pete

[hkpgr]

Hi again

Got it. Thanx :D

Henrik