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Reading aircraft.cfg files

Thanks Arno, this is a great tool for contactpoints. Though I cannot edit them directly atleast I can now see where tgey are if they aren't where I want them to be.
 
Hi Arno,

A user of SODE has reported a problem with jetway alignment. This has mostly to do with misconfigured aircraft.cfg exit points, so I wanted to have a look at them with MCX. During loading of the model (after selecting the aircraft.cfg of course), MCX throws some warnings "Failed to process CFG Point with name exit.0" and also for exit.1.

So I had a look into my SODE aircraft.cfg parser code and indeed, also SODE was not able to read them properly!
I found out that the minus used in this particular aircraft.cfg file is not the "regular" hypen minus sign, but a soft hyphen (didn't even know such thing existed...). My parser returned "\255" instead of "-". Now I am replacing all occurences of that soft hyphen and replace them with the correct minus sign.
Also, when I exchanged the minus sign in the aircraft.cfg manually, MCX is able to read the exits points again.

This seems really odd and I don't know how the soft hyphen gets into the aircraft.cfg in the first place...Windows locale settings?


By the way, it was a Project Airbus A318 aircraft.cfg, and yes, the exit is completely off ;)

I attached the aircraft.cfg for you to test.

Best regards
 

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Interesting find, I'll have a look at it. I'm surprised how many weird lines I have already found in cfg files.
 
Could it be related to the French characters I see in the file as well?
 
I don't know. Perhaps, I think in France they use a AZERTY keyboard layout, and maybe the hypens are mapped differently, but that's a wild guess.

While playing with the new editor, I found another bug: I used the Aerosoft Airbus and was not able to get the light and exit points to show up in MCX.
After inspecting the aircraft.cfg, I figured that they used multiple tab stops after the section title to add a comment:
Code: 
[EXITS]            // A321
Well, the official comment sign for config files is ';' and you shouldn't write comments at the same line as the section title anyways, but after removing the comment, or even just removing the tabstops, MCX was able to read the data.
 
I could modify the parser for that, since FS also understands it.
 
I sent you 2 error reports of MCX while importing aircraft.cfg files (large AI cfgs with many textures)
did you receive them?
 
That was last week not? Those have been fixed by now.
 
There is no more a program (crash) error, but I dont know if it works like designed.
The aircraft folder is a little complex with several models and about 60 textures...
It looks like MCX reads all the models and displays finally the first model of aircraft.cfg and the corresponding liveries.
I try to attach a picture of the folder structure...
folder Structure.jpg
 
Correct it will load all models and display the first one. With the arrow buttons you can cycle through the available models.
 
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