ADE Unable to compile

[User454]

Hello everyone! I'm unable to compile this airport I was working on, because I'm getting 2 empty identifier tags on 2 approaches. I want to delete these approaches, but when I go into the list menu for approaches, it just crashes ADE. I'm not exactly sure what to do in this situation. Any suggestions or any way to manually delete these empty approaches?

INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2616: Empty IDENTIFIER tag.
INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2031: Failed element parse <Approach>
INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:

Thank you in advance.

 

[glottis]

First, can you try adding an ILS, get ADE to add an ILS then you can delete the other two.......... or the long way:
just make up anything, unless you have the charts
add 2 way-points in "Approach Mode" call them what you like (Fix Ident) space them beyond runway 11's heading,
lets say you call them "ONE" and "TWO", set the ILS to "TWO" set this to the runway heading
use "ONE as your first approach leg (the IF) name that "ONE"
then add a CF leg call that "TWO" set the heading the same, use these as type "Terminal Waypoint"
then add anther CF set this as Type "Runway" (Fix ident) as RW11
hopefully this will now compile, then click on the 2 approaches you need to delete, right click and delete
so you should be left with the basic ILS

 

[User454]

I've tried adding an ILS, no luck. I've also tried the long way, but it will just crash when I get to the approach list. The 2 unidentified approaches don't even come up on the list! I do see them in the .XML file though.

 

[scruffyduck]

This looks like a bug in ADE. let me check. What version of ADE are you using?

 

[User454]

I believe it's the latest version, I only downloaded it from your website quite recently. Maybe one week ago?

 

[scruffyduck]

OK please read the version number of the title bar

 

[User454]

It says "[Ver. 01.00.7451]".

 

[scruffyduck]

No not that bit - this bit

 

[User454]

Here you go

 

[glottis]

I don't know if this will help you, this is your file with the basic ILS added and the 2 problem approaches deleted
this compiles now but i get a warning opening your file of a"sat2bmp cannot be found" what ever that is, you will know where it is on your PC

 

[User454]

Yes, it now compiles and works just fine. Thank you all so very much!

 

[glottis]

That's good to know,

Jon,
I'm still using v1.70.6042, so there may be a problem with the later version

 

[scruffyduck]

Thanks Ray. I was not able to replicate the error. ADE reported that the approaches were not valid when I went to edit but did not crash. I was able to delete both the approaches without error. This is using the latest version of ADE.