Sabrefly Posted May 5, 2017 Report Posted May 5, 2017 Pete, there used to be a very convenient feature in RC4/FSX to resume saved flights by loading Previously Saved RCDs. Is there a way to resume saved flights with RC4 in P3Dv3? I know that RC4 is looking for a *.flt not *.fxml flight file to resume. Is there a way around it? Thanks, Sabre.
Pete Dowson Posted May 6, 2017 Report Posted May 6, 2017 8 hours ago, Sabrefly said: Pete, there used to be a very convenient feature in RC4/FSX to resume saved flights by loading Previously Saved RCDs. Is there a way to resume saved flights with RC4 in P3Dv3? I know that RC4 is looking for a *.flt not *.fxml flight file to resume. Is there a way around it? The file format was changed to xml. Most maintained programs deal with it. It is a shame that RC4 is effectively dead. That's one reason I moved to ProATC/X -- at least it's live, AND handles SIDs and STARS, well -- and gates and taxiways -- and gets better over time. I'm pretty sure P3D, like FSX, will load a flight if just given its name without the filetype (.flt or .fxml). If RC is actually looking for a file specifically, then I can't really do much for it, but if it is asking FSUIPC to tell P3D to load a flight with name.flt then I can just strip the filetype off, if I don't already (I'll need to check). Do you know? Does it offer a list of files itself? If so then it is independently of FSUIPC and I can't help. Pete
Sabrefly Posted May 6, 2017 Author Report Posted May 6, 2017 Now I'm looking for fxmltoflt converter as per this thread: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/483684-p3d-v3-saved-flight-issue/ Unfortunately the link to the converter is dead there and I'm still looking for it. RC4 via FSUIPC (as I understad) saves fxml files OK along with its rcd files. But when loading a flight situation RC4 also looks for the flt file. So if I can find a fxml to flt converter then that should work. Thanks, Igor.
Pete Dowson Posted May 6, 2017 Report Posted May 6, 2017 10 hours ago, Sabrefly said: But when loading a flight situation RC4 also looks for the flt file. But does it look in the flights folder (in Documents)? If it only asks FSUIPC to load the flt file then I can easily fix that by discarding the .flt part. But if it is check that it exists first, that won't work. Pete
Sabrefly Posted May 6, 2017 Author Report Posted May 6, 2017 40 minutes ago, Pete Dowson said: But does it look in the flights folder (in Documents)? If it only asks FSUIPC to load the flt file then I can easily fix that by discarding the .flt part. But if it is check that it exists first, that won't work. Pete I understand it does look in the flights folder, and even reads smth in the flt file, that's why a converter is needed to translate the saved fxm to flt. Renaming fxm to flt does not work. Igor.
Pete Dowson Posted May 7, 2017 Report Posted May 7, 2017 3 hours ago, Sabrefly said: Renaming fxm to flt does not work. No it won't -- the data inside is in a completely different format. And renaming it will probably prevent P3D loading it. Pete
Sabrefly Posted June 27, 2017 Author Report Posted June 27, 2017 (edited) I have it working in P3Dv3 now. A kind soul from another forum sent me a tiny exe that easily converts fxml to flt with the same name when you drag and drop the fxml on it. Therefore RC4 can find and read the converted flt file and this works perfect, so RC4 is still good for saving and loading flight situations in P3Dv3.3-3.4 Igor. Edited June 27, 2017 by Sabrefly
Pete Dowson Posted June 27, 2017 Report Posted June 27, 2017 9 minutes ago, Sabrefly said: A kind soul from another forum sent me a tiny exe that easily converts fxml to flt with the same name when you drag and drop the fxml on it. Therefore RC4 can find and read the converted flt file and this works perfect, so RC4 is still good for saving and loading flight situations in P3Dv3.3-3.4 Good news. It should work in P3D4 as well then. Pete
Sabrefly Posted June 27, 2017 Author Report Posted June 27, 2017 15 minutes ago, Pete Dowson said: Good news. It should work in P3D4 as well then. Pete Even better. Thanks, Igor.
agutz Posted January 21, 2018 Report Posted January 21, 2018 Why so secretive, Sabrefly? Where is the post on that "other forum" where you found "a tiny exe that easily converts fxml to flt"? Are you allowed to share? Regards, Andreas
wombatau Posted January 21, 2018 Report Posted January 21, 2018 Andreas, PM me with an email address & I will send you the file. Graham
themachine Posted January 22, 2018 Report Posted January 22, 2018 I need to get this converter too. Would you be ok sharing with me also?
shortspecialbus Posted January 22, 2018 Report Posted January 22, 2018 Is there a reason you can't just publicly share it? If it's just not having an easy way to do so, let me know, and I'll host it for you. If someone doesn't want it publicly shared, then whatever, I guess. -stefan
wombatau Posted January 23, 2018 Report Posted January 23, 2018 Stefan There is nothing in the readme that says it can't be hosted. I just don't have the facility. If you wish to host it PM me your email & I'll pop it over to you. Graham
Pete Dowson Posted January 23, 2018 Report Posted January 23, 2018 2 hours ago, wombatau said: There is nothing in the readme that says it can't be hosted. I just don't have the facility. If you wish to host it PM me your email & I'll pop it over to you. If it is freeware, I can host it here in the Download Links subforum, or you could post some notes on it in User Contributions. I'll upload the file itself and add the link if you email me the file (petedowson@btconnect.com). Pete
shortspecialbus Posted January 23, 2018 Report Posted January 23, 2018 Graham, It'd make slightly more sense for Pete to host it, so I'll ask that you contact him for that. Thanks for sharing the file! -stefan
wombatau Posted January 24, 2018 Report Posted January 24, 2018 22 hours ago, Pete Dowson said: If it is freeware, I can host it here in the Download Links subforum, or you could post some notes on it in User Contributions. I'll upload the file itself and add the link if you email me the file (petedowson@btconnect.com). Pete Thanks Pete, I've emailed it to you. Graham
Pete Dowson Posted January 24, 2018 Report Posted January 24, 2018 2 hours ago, wombatau said: Thanks Pete, I've emailed it to you. Got it. Thanks. I'll upload it and link it today. [LATER] Okay, "FxmlToFlt" is now available in the Download Links subforum, in the "Useful Additional Programs" thread. Pete 1
agutz Posted January 24, 2018 Report Posted January 24, 2018 Thank you very much. It also works in P3Dv4. Andreas
themachine Posted January 25, 2018 Report Posted January 25, 2018 Thank you very much Pete. Gave me an excuse to hold on to RC4 for a couple more years.
Ray Proudfoot Posted December 12, 2020 Report Posted December 12, 2020 Gents, I've tried to use this utility for the first time. One problem. There is no executable in the zip. Just 3 txt files and a CPP file. Has anyone got this working and if so, how?
Pete Dowson Posted December 12, 2020 Report Posted December 12, 2020 20 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said: There is no executable in the zip. Just 3 txt files and a CPP file. Actually one of the files with a .txt filetype is a folder containing other compiler related files and another folder. But even in those there doesn't appear to be an EXE. It looks like it has been like that since it was uploaded (I've never used it). That was in January 2018, so it is surprising it hasn't been mentioned before. Perhaps you might PM the supplier wombatau or email the author hippo@desiredtrack.com. Pete
Ray Proudfoot Posted December 12, 2020 Report Posted December 12, 2020 Thanks Pete. I guessed you hosted it without unzipping. I’ll write to the developer.
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