• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSXA Confused with TOOLTIP syntax

gaabne

gaabne

Messages
120
Country
france
I am an european user with hybrid unit measure settings, trying to fix some tooltips not working.

I discovered that within the same panel and the same cab, sometime

<Tooltip ID="TOOLTIPTEXT_AUTOPILOT_APP_HOLD"/> works fine, displaying the french tip as expected

while I need to add the MetricID= keyword in order to get the tip displayed.

<Tooltip ID="TOOLTIPTEXT_VSI_FEET_PER_MIN" MetricID="TOOLTIPTEXT_VSI_FEET_PER_MIN"/>

I verified that this tip is not displayed if I delete the MetricID keyword or if I substitute it with DefaultID.

I don't understand the logic behind and so far, searches on the forum did not helped.

Thank you to help a confused beginner.

Gérard

PS: FSX Gold, Windows 7 64k.
 
Use <Tooltip ID="TOOLTIPTEXT_VSI_METERS_PER_SEC"/> instead!

Or, write a 'custom tooltip' following the syntax examples in the SDK's "Tooltips" document:

<TooltipText> "Vertical Speed Indicator (%((A:VERTICAL SPEED, meter per minute))%!d! m/m)" </TooltipText>
 
Last edited:
Thanks for you quick answer, but I am sorry, I think I was not clear enough on my question. As you may have noticed, English is not my native language ...

My question is not about how to get message with metrics values, as I do want the value TOOLTIPTEXT_VSI_FEET_PER_MIN.

but why,
<Tooltip ID="TOOLTIPTEXT_VSI_FEET_PER_MIN" /> does not show up and I have to use the second form

<Tooltip ID="TOOLTIPTEXT_VSI_FEET_PER_MIN" MetricID="TOOLTIPTEXT_VSI_FEET_PER_MIN"/>

when on the "fellow" gauge (same cab, same panel)

<Tooltip ID="TOOLTIPTEXT_AUTOPILOT_APP_HOLD"/> works fine

Hope I succeed to clarify my question.
 
Remove the blank space: MIN" /> and make it MIN"/> instead?
 
I did try it... with no success.

This is not limited to one tooltip, this occurs on several lines on the same gauge.
I was wondering if there is a tag which makes tooltip requesting the defaultID, MetricID and EnglishId keyword (why and when...)

It looks like the short form works when there is no value (with units) involved, and the long form when there is units depending of international settings....

I will investigate a little bit more...
 
After changing "Unit of Measure" to US System in the Setting General panel, International sub-panel, all Tooltips are back when using the short Tooltip syntax (I mean with no defaultID, MetricID or EnglishId keyword).
Interesting ! I am tempted to think that my assumption was right... ;)

So, the problem is solved. Hope this short thread can be helpfull for others.

Cheers, Gérard
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top