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AIFP 3.2.06 (i)
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) in this version except for the fact that the bulk traffic > Traffic and Parking Analyser in the P3Dv4 mode cannot analyze.
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Well, I open the traffic analyser and choose the traffic files that I have in the scenery\world\scenery and the program keeps on extracting airports and aircaft forever and at the same time a message pops up that says it is unable to analyse this set of traffic files and will now close.
Roby, I'm not a dentist. I don't like having to "pull teeth" (or "peel onions"). I have searched the source code and can find no message that says "unable to analyse this set of traffic files and will now close" or anything like that.
AIFP's resources are finite. If you have a large number of traffic files in SWS (or even a few very large files such as the default traffic file) and those resources are consumed, there's nothing I can do about it. (Windows doesn't tell AIFP of such an impending problem; it waits until the problem occurs at which point recovery is not possible.) But, since you've told me virtually nothing of use in diagnosing the difficulty, I have no way of knowing whether or not this is the issue YOU are experiencing.
May I suggest you pick one or two files to analyse and try that. If that works, try it with several other smaller sets. If you can do this successfully, then its probably an overload issue. If however, the problem recurs, please send me sufficient detailed information that I can at least determine what I should be looking for, including a screenshot, exact wording of the message, procedural details, etc and, if the problem lies with a particular file of set of files, also send me those files are a link to them so that I can attempt to replicate the issue.
Don
EDIT: Not being one to give up easily, I did another search for the message you reported. - and found what I assume is that message. It occurs when Windows throws and exception (presumably reporting an exhaustion of some resource), in which case your set of traffic files overloaded the system. You should be able to analyse smaller sets without difficulty.
AIFP's resources are finite. If you have a large number of traffic files in SWS (or even a few very large files such as the default traffic file) and those resources are consumed, there's nothing I can do about it. (Windows doesn't tell AIFP of such an impending problem; it waits until the problem occurs at which point recovery is not possible.) But, since you've told me virtually nothing of use in diagnosing the difficulty, I have no way of knowing whether or not this is the issue YOU are experiencing.
May I suggest you pick one or two files to analyse and try that. If that works, try it with several other smaller sets. If you can do this successfully, then its probably an overload issue. If however, the problem recurs, please send me sufficient detailed information that I can at least determine what I should be looking for, including a screenshot, exact wording of the message, procedural details, etc and, if the problem lies with a particular file of set of files, also send me those files are a link to them so that I can attempt to replicate the issue.
Don
EDIT: Not being one to give up easily, I did another search for the message you reported. - and found what I assume is that message. It occurs when Windows throws and exception (presumably reporting an exhaustion of some resource), in which case your set of traffic files overloaded the system. You should be able to analyse smaller sets without difficulty.
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I probably should have mentioned this earlier. In the T&PA Files menu is an item labelled "Files for Only Airport ICAO:". That function is intended to allow you to analyse a set of files that would otherwise overload the system. By specifying the airport of interest, you reduce the amount of data loaded and, hence, the call on resources.
While this feature does not guarantee you'll be able to analyse all the traffic at the airport of interest, it does substantially increase your chances of doing do in situations where a large number of files must be analysed.
Don
While this feature does not guarantee you'll be able to analyse all the traffic at the airport of interest, it does substantially increase your chances of doing do in situations where a large number of files must be analysed.
Don
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Don, that may be the case as I just ported over all my files that were in the FSX\scenery\world\scenery.
Let my check that in the morning (i.e your time when you should be sleeping still).
As always, thanks for your support.
Roby
Edit: Just tried to open one Traffic file and I get the same warning that the traffic analyser has to shut down!
Let my check that in the morning (i.e your time when you should be sleeping still).
As always, thanks for your support.
Roby
Edit: Just tried to open one Traffic file and I get the same warning that the traffic analyser has to shut down!
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There's an old thread somewhere that I started concerning a similar problem with the T&PA. I fixed it by uninstalling AIFP completely and then reinstalling the new version. For some reason, installing "over the top" of numerous previous versions eventually caused a problem with the TPA. The installs updated fine literally for years and then one day, an install caused the T&PA to not work correctly.
Analysis of that file is not a problem for me.
Roby, since no one else appears to be complaining that individual files cannot be analysed, it seems to me whatever is causing this difficulty on your system is local to your system.
If you truly are getting the same message with this file that you got with the whole SWS folder, then I'd take a close look at your computer.
Don
Roby, since no one else appears to be complaining that individual files cannot be analysed, it seems to me whatever is causing this difficulty on your system is local to your system.
If you truly are getting the same message with this file that you got with the whole SWS folder, then I'd take a close look at your computer.
Don
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Sorry Don, I got rid of the contents of the AIFP folder and deleted all the files in the bin as well.
Maybe it was the (i) version because that is when I noticed that things started to happen.
I do not know how come I downloaded the (j) one either because it was nowhere mentioned by you in any thread I could find.
Maybe it was the (i) version because that is when I noticed that things started to happen.
I do not know how come I downloaded the (j) one either because it was nowhere mentioned by you in any thread I could find.
Too bad.
Unlikely. Only two people - one being you - have ever reported such a difficulty. In the case of Jay Bloomfield, he reported the issue some time ago.
I don't advertise every development release in every forum of interest. You will always download the latest.
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I think that this obscure issue is similar to why PMDG says to always initially load their birds using the sim's default scenario. One never knows what setting might have been left behind that could throw the old silicon spanner into the works. And then I think about how many times that I didn't heed PMDG's advice and nothing bad happened.
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I have another question about AIFP developmental release (i). When adding an AI add-on the "LM V4 way", is it better to include the SimObjects/Airplanes folder as a component or should I leave that component entry out of add-on.xml and just add the folder to SimObjects.cfg? Or does it even matter? Thanks.
Jay, its not clear what you are asking. AIFP has nothing to do with adding add-ons to PV4. It generates traffic files. I know nothing about "LM V4 way". As for how you organize your aircraft generally, it doesn't matter where you save aircraft, so long as the location is registered in simobjects.cfg.
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If I create or open a text file schedule, AIFP has to create an aircraft list in some fashion. If the sim "contains" the aircraft/livery, it is colored black. If it can't be found in the sim's list of simobjects, it's colored red and designated as missing. I assume the same is true for opening a BGL based schedule. Where does AIFP get that information from? I always assumed for P3d it was from simobjects.cfg, but maybe I'm mistaken. In P3D V4, LM has emphasized to a new add-on approach (It was there in V3, but no one used it much). Add-ons with SimObjects may now not appear at all in simobjects.cfg, but rather in the add-on's component descriptor file, add-on.xml.
I wasn't trying to request any changes to AIFP, but I was just pointing out that the sim's aircraft list is now spread out over more than one cfg file.
I wasn't trying to request any changes to AIFP, but I was just pointing out that the sim's aircraft list is now spread out over more than one cfg file.
As noted above, your shorthand "addon LM V4 way" was a bit cryptic.
Re addon.cfg, I had assumed that a SimObjects entry in that file would result in a permanent new entry in simobjects.cfg. It appears that was not a good assumption.
So, I need to explore - and accommodate - the (new) various ways a path to simobjects can be registered in PV4. It will take some time. In the meantime, you'll have to register all you aircraft in simobjects.cfg in order for AIFP to see them.
Don
Re addon.cfg, I had assumed that a SimObjects entry in that file would result in a permanent new entry in simobjects.cfg. It appears that was not a good assumption.
So, I need to explore - and accommodate - the (new) various ways a path to simobjects can be registered in PV4. It will take some time. In the meantime, you'll have to register all you aircraft in simobjects.cfg in order for AIFP to see them.
Don