APChart chart viewer for FSX DB issue

[Lamb 0]

Hi, I have just tried to APChart chart viewer, an add on gauge for both FSX and FS9 by Holger Maass on an windows 7 64 bit platformed FSX install.

 

The install seemed to go well, but when I try to create the airport DB, no airports are found. I cant see a way to understand or check where the DB build program is looking during its build.

 

Has anyone else had this issue, and if so was there a resolution?

 

 

 

[scott967 62]

I played with this years ago but gave up on it.  I think this was on XP.  But what I remember is that it reads scenery.cfg and looks through all the folders in there for airport bgl files.  The problem is it reads the file from top to bottom, meaning the default airports are read first.  Once it adds an airport to the db it will ignore any other airport bgl files for that airport, so what happens is that you never see any of the updates in the gauge.  I worked around this by editing scenery.cfg so all the default scenery entries were at the end of the file.   I used this temporary file just when building the db, then restored the "real" file.  This pretty much worked, but it means that anytime you add new airport scenery you have to go through the process all over again to update the db.

 

If you use a tool like Procmon, you should be able to see what the db building util is doing.

 

scott s.

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