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V.21 big burp!

meshman said:
Russell,

Download v.21, extract to a new folder, go to start and get the following dialog box with "Jave Virtual Machine Launcher" up top;

Could not find the main class. Program will exit.

Still have v.20 installed, it works OK. Suggestions?
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Haven't seen this one before. Try this:
1) open a command window
2) navigate to the folder with fsx planner in it
3) type "java -jar fsxplanner.jar" (without the quotes).

This should run the app and display any error output in the command window.

What does it display?

-Russell
 
meshman said:
This is what it gives me. v.20 is working fine. v.21 has it's own folder.
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What version of java are you using?

If you are not sure enter this into the command window:

java -version

As of v.21 Java 1.5 or higher is necessary. Prior versions worked with Java 1.4 or higher.

I am running version 1.5.0_11.


-Russell
 
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meshman said:
Smaller burp this time around. v.20 had the image info sitting in a file named backgroundImages.XML, located here on my system; C:\Documents and Settings\Lance\Application Data\zBlueSoftware\FSXPlanner Where would be the new storage location? I found it easiest to edit the XML as needed to have the pics I wanted displayed and had the extra pics sitting in a reference XML file.
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They are stored in the same location unless you specify that you want to store them in the airport xml file. This is a preference in the Preferences dialog. If you select this option the image information is stored in both the original location, as you stated above, and in a comment in the airport xml file.

Also, some random type thoughts. The field I'm at now takes 8 1600x1200 to get everything laid out. So I can only utilize 2 pics at a time, otherwise memory useage is too high and system is way slow. But FSXP doesn't show a way to toggle a pic off, just to add it. Thus the manual editing of the XML file mentioned above. Could the toggling of pics be something to consider? Say one file with all pics loaded and then as the are added for work they get listed in the file I can't seem to locate now?
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All images are loaded in at the moment, but only those that are viewable based on the current zoom and airport position are actually displayed and/or scaled.

So, yes you need the memory to load in all images, but you do not need the cpu power to display them all, all the time.

With that said we could add an option to make a background image 'active' or 'inactive' as that would help with memory and speed performance.

-Russell
 
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