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Everyone check your MFD (GPS) screens that use P3D V2.1

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Hello Developers,

If you have created XML MFD screens using the FS9 GPS data/system in them, check them if they work in Prepar3D V2.1. All of my MFD screens (GPS layers) in P3D V2.1 are now inoperative with P3D 2.1. Something like 5 aircraft product lines.

I wonder if they can be repaired.

sigh...
 
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I fly the Epic with a flight plan Most the time and it flies spot-on in V2.1 but the Mfd shows Time to arrival ect up top of the screen but no map, My Dnav wont even find an ICAO that I enter and the AutoLand by Francois Dore mars 2012 V2.1 Don,t Work no more (It only uses radio alt for its operation ) My auto takeoff which uses similar coding works fine.
I'll keep trying but I ain't no XML guru
 

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Bill, something has changed for sure, and not for the better. All of my custom GPS units cannot read or display the GPS database any longer...

What is truly "weird" is that the default fs9gps.cab's g_500.xml script hasn't changed one bit! Yet it works. Go figure! :censored:

At least the G1000 used in the Mooney Acclaim works, but it's using the FSX "Aces" XML syntax, so that doesn't really help here. :confused:
 
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Its not good.... Way not good.

I'll have to stop selling planes for V2. Only 1.4. They took quite a while to do an update for V2, so Im sure this will be a long while to do a V2.2. Makes me sick in my stomach. There goes a lot of business...
 

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They took quite a while to do an update for V2, so Im sure this will be a long while to do a V2.2.

It's only 2 and a half month since the release now, not? I think we Microsoft we had to wait much longer for updates normally. But of course when a new bug prevents features of your addon any waiting time is annoying.
 
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According to Jessica Bannister, P3D updated or revamped their XML Parser. I guess a lot of Carenado planes no longer have functions either.

sigh..
 
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This just posted at Prepar3D by Beau, team member;


Models missions and gauges all use the same scrip evaluator. We added some script validation code to help with scripted actions in mission creation, but it appears that the error messages are being logged internally even when content error reporting and gauge debugging options are not enabled in the cfg. There may have been one or two new checks added as well, but we haven't gone through it with a fine tooth comb just yet. If the xml validates, but some scripts have errors, the system can get in a state where the same error string is created and logged over and over again eventually leading to OOMs. I would suggest turning on gauge debugging in the Prepar3D.cfg and either fix the errors or avoid using any content that pop up alerts until the next patch. We're sorry about the legacy content effected by this. A silver lining may be that add-on developers might be motivated to go back and clean up scrip errors.

Beau Hollis

Rendering System Lead - Prepar3D® Team

So it looks like the 'scrip evaluator' stays, no fixes for broken planes.
 

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Simple solution to all to yo P3D XML problems:

Come over to the dark side and learn C++ :p . You will discover that its actually the light side and XML has been keeping you in the dark :D
 

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Jon, with respect... As I just commented in another thread, a certain amount of XML is unavoidable, as it is currently the only option in the modeldef.xml file.

Gauges aside for the moment, a questionable parser that treats non-error in syntax as though they were errors, is a H U G E problem... :yikes:
 
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Jon, with respect... As I just commented in another thread, a certain amount of XML is unavoidable, as it is currently the only option in the modeldef.xml file.

Gauges aside for the moment, a questionable parser that treats non-error in syntax as though they were errors, is a H U G E problem... :yikes:


Bill, I massively agree. I see this as a huge mistake on their part. They are trying to blame us now for the OOM's. Well, this didn't happen in 1.4, so what changed?

Naruto-sahn, I don't know if I could learn C++. I am still learning XML and it is still a burden on me. Just learning how to mouse-drag has taken me 3 weeks.
 

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Lol just pulling legs. @n4gix I know but at least one can keep the modeldef.xml as dumb as possible that way.
 
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