Comments on: 10.20 Beta 10: Name and Shame for Plugins https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:50:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Tom Knudsen https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6736 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:50:03 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6736 In reply to Ben Supnik.

Thanks Ben for clearing that up

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6733 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:22:14 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6733 In reply to Tom Knudsen.

X-Plane 10 reads in the order of the scenery_packs.ini. New packs NOT in the .ini are added (in alphabetical order) to the TOP of the file – thus the new pack you just got goes to top priority until you change it.

Renaming a scenery pack means it isn’t in scenery_packs.ini – it goes back to the top.

Performance will depend on who excludes who.

Don’t rename your scenery packs; set their name once if and only if the author didn’t pick a good name. Edit the scenery_packs.ini file to reorganize.

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6732 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:20:03 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6732 In reply to Bill Good (sparker).

The logging is seriously borked – please wait for beta 11!

]]> By: Bill Good (sparker) https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6731 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:47:48 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6731 In reply to Jonathan Harris.

I am seeing the same thing on my Linux and Mac builds but see then on every on including /Resources/plugins/PluginAdmin/64/lin.xpl. Do I understand correctly that they should not be there or is it my problem?

Bill

]]> By: Tom Knudsen https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6730 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:57:37 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6730 Here is a question not releated to this topic, but I cannot seem to find a right time to ask you this..

1. Does alphetasizing the scenery library actually work or have a valid performance gain?

example: (fictional scenery setup)

aaa_EGSS – Stanford Airport
bbb_England_VFR
ccc_UK – AI Traffic
zzz_Europe – Terra Mesh 1.0

As you can see are scenery and addons alphabetasized with xxx_ infront of their name
Myth states that X-Plane render its scenery in layer format, reading from top to bottom in sequence. Which again would mean that aaa_ are shown first, than bbb_ and so on..

True or False?

Please feel free to email me the answer if you do not feel this reply is not topic related and will not be approved.

]]> By: Ron B. https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6728 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:17:26 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6728 In reply to Ben Supnik.

ooops, didnt I ? was quite some time ago. Whatever. its fixed. Great !

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6727 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:48:31 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6727 In reply to Ron B.

I can’t believe no one reported it until a week ago!!

]]> By: Ron B https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6726 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:24:26 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6726 sometimes little things are enjoyable.
Thanks a lot for fixing the broken keys on the german keyboard.

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6725 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:35:56 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6725 In reply to Bo.

The log is categorized by sub-system and warning severity. Our goal is to someday get _all_ log output to look like the ATC output. At that point the standard Unix tool ‘grep’ will let you extract the portions of interest.

]]> By: Bo https:/2012/12/10-20-beta-10-name-and-shame-for-plugins/#comment-6724 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:51:07 +0000 http://xplanedev.wpengine.com/?p=4688#comment-6724 In reply to Steve.

I second that! In such case I would like to have more detailed ATC logging to help in the “debugging” of layouts and flow definitions. It would also be nice to have some kind visualization of ATC sectors that are defined in the atc.dat file from within X-plane. As an overlay on the local map maybe?

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