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Couatl error in FSX
sumits81:
Cheers Umberto. This sounds very much like the problem faced by another bloke from the Prepar3D/KSFO forum... I'm assuming here but it feels like the versions may have got mixed up ie., FSX and Prepar3D FSDT packages...
Anyway, I'll leave the solution upto the experts.
Looking forward to a solution..
Many thanks
sumits81:
Hi Umberto,
Please let us know if you have a breakthrough in finding the cause...
Thanks
virtuali:
--- Quote from: sumits81 on October 25, 2011, 08:45:16 am ---Please let us know if you have a breakthrough in finding the cause...
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The cause is the aircraft.cfg of those airplanes that contains things not syntactically correct according to .INI file conventions (the aircraft.cfg IS an .INI file), the remedy will be we should enhance Couatl to be more robust against those errors (not caused by it...)
sumits81:
Thanks Umberto. Any temporary solutions in the interim? Thats funny because i had fsdt products working fine on my Vista 32bit before. i have only noticed the issue after installing Win7 64bit over the last weekend...
virtuali:
As Iv'e said, it has nothing to do with our products, the activation, or the OS the run under. It's a specific problem of some PMDG airplane which contains non-standard commands according to .INI file rules, that confuses the parser that needs to check the aircraft.cfg to get things like contact points for the ParkMe/Pushback.
We only needed to make our module more resilient against those errors, if you download the Stand-Alone Addon Manager again now, we already updated it.
In this specific case, there were SOME PMDG liveries, like the 737NGX Neos, that had their "description" field wrongly formatted:
description=Boeing 737-800 powered by CFM engines v 1.0\nPMDG
Simulations\nwww.precisionmanuals.com \n\nProduced under license
from Boeing Management Company.\n\nBoeing 737, 737-800, 737-900 &
Boeing are among the trademarks owned by Boeing.
This is not correct, the description should be all in a single line, like this:
description=Boeing 737-800 powered by CFM engines v 1.0\nPMDG Simulations\nwww.precisionmanuals.com \n\nProduced under license from Boeing Management Company.\n\nBoeing 737, 737-800, 737-900 & Boeing are among the trademarks owned by Boeing.
Since an .INI file can only begin with a blank line, a comment or a key, it can't contain just text from a previous line. FSX will probably skip the wrong lines and display just the first one, we simply had to update our parser to do the same and not be confused by it.
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