BUG: XGauge Installation Wizard

[Phil Chimbolo 10]

Dear HiFi,I found a bug in your XGauge Installation Wizard. After reading several posts here, and doing some testing of my own, I've come to this simple assessment.It would appear that when the XGauge installation wizard is run for the first time (right after ASE installation) the aircraft that were configured then are remembered somewhere. That's fine, however...If the user moves "certain" originally configured aircraft out of the \Simobjects\Airplanes folder (i.e. to retire them, or to have FSX ignore loading them) and the XGauge installation wizard is run again, the wizard falsely displays the error "Problem checking for access rights to FSX aircraft folder..." blah blah blahIn my case, I can simply put back the aircraft I've moved aside while I run the wizard for new aircraft I've added. For people who uninstall aircraft, the only way to solve the problem you created is to either uninstall ASE and reinstall it... or to reinstall the aircraft so the XGauge Wizard can see it so it can run.Interestingly, I used your "UNINSTALL" option to remove the XGAUGE panel reference from all the aircraft thinking I could then move the unwanted aircraft aside safely. Nope! I tried to run the Xgauge Wizard again, to add the gauge to only my desired aircraft remaining in the \Simobjects\Airplanes folder... and the error came back again! So I had to put all the aircraft back so the wizard would run.Not sure what happens to people that "uninstall" aircraft that were once configured by the wizard. I suspect they might have to reinstall ASE from scratch. But I have no intention of testing that for you too.Poor implementation. Please fix.

[Damian Clark 340]

Hi,Thanks for you assessment of our implementation. That is extremely appreciated!We've found no correlation or explanation for what you describe. There is nothing "remembered". The scan is dynamic each time specific to the folder structure that exists during the scan. I just tried removing aircraft folders, and things work without any errors, with B647 and B655.So it appears your assumptions and assessment may need re-evaluation!Now concerning the error for access rights, this occurs prior to even looking at aircraft (simobject) folders! It happens when the XGauge files (gauge in imagery) cannot properly be copied into the correct locations. Again, this has nothing to do with the aircraft objects, it hasn't even begun looking there yet.If you will open a ticket (support.hifitechinc.com) with details we could look at this. Details on what steps you've done to initiate an error would help, as mentioned we could not find any issue as you describe here.

[Chrix 0]

We've found no correlation or explanation for what you describe. There is nothing "remembered". The scan is dynamic each time specific to the folder structure that exists during the scan. I just tried removing aircraft folders, and things work without any errors, with B647 and B655.

Until now, I thought B651 was the latest beta update for ASE ... if there's a newer one, where can I find it ?Regards,Christoph Reule

[Damian Clark 340]

B655 is an in progress test build which is essentially the same as B651 for all intensive purposes. It should be posted very soon. B647 also does not exhibit any behavior as mentioned on this thread per our tests. We're hoping for some actual data here via official mechanisms.So far all we've seen is a very upset user who is venting, but has not provided anything that we can work with to diagnose or "fix" a problem, despite our attempts and time spent deciphering the above and trying to extract meaningful data.

[vgbaron 2,381]

I'm wondering if this is related to the issues when FSX is installed in the default ProgramFiles(x86) folder using W7.

[Jake Linville 0]

I have Active Sky Next....can't find the x guage wizard...can't find the "tools" tab mentioned in the manual...thanks