ui_manufacturer and my Pet Peeve!

[ryanbatc 12,857]

Argh....  I wish all developers would simply put the manufacturer of the real airplane in this entry.  A lot use their own development titles in this spot.  It should be reserved for the make/manufacturer!!

 

Microsoft was even kind enough to include a spot for developers: ui_createdby.  Now I have to edit my entries and re-do them each time the dev issues a new patch for the plane... *sigh*

 

End of rant.

 

 

[Lowflyer 97]

You're not the only one. That's been bugging me quite a bit too, which is partly why I started working on my paintjob importing tool. 

[FloG 148]

Thanks for this thread, it's good to see I'm not alone with this opinion. I have to admit, I once had the goal to edit all the aircraft.cfg's to display the manufacturer and developer correctly, but the sheer amount of addons I have made me give this project up - I spend too little time flying already.

[KSATRoadWarrior 91]

 

 

I wish all developers would simply put the manufacturer of the real airplane in this entry. A lot use their own development titles in this spot. It should be reserved for the make/manufacturer!!

 

 

 

I once had the goal to edit all the aircraft.cfg's to display the manufacturer and developer correctly

 

AGREED, I too said too big a task to update.....so easy if done correctly by originator..............

[ryanbatc 12,857]

By the way there is a decent method to amending the entries.

 

In notepad (what I use to edit .cfg's), find the manufacturer entry, example:

 

ui_manufacturer="Carenado"

 

Then press Ctrl+H (the find and replace function)

 

In the top line enter the above, and the bottom line enter the new manufacturer that will be replaced with, example:

 

ui_manufacturer=Piper

 

Then click "Replace All" (or shortcut Alt+A I think)

 

Then save cfg

[simmerhead 885]

Count me in. Annoying practice indeed!

[JSkorna 137]

I check and edit after each install. Makes it a bit more manageable.

[adi518 73]

Hehe.. funny how I did the same thing 2 days ago. Got annoyed with my aircraft inventory being all wrong. I don't understand why some devs don't use the real manufacturer for the corresponding entry, but instead inputting themselves, twice, both in 'manufacturer' and 'created by'. Just odd.

 

Anyway, my method for editing them is using dreamweaver. Notepad is really basic and has annoying quirks sometimes, terrible search feature and extremely basic 'find and replace'.

 

With dw I can open up lots of CFGs together and batch edit them all together as well. So for example, I got my fairchild 24 and it consists of 4 different folders (because of the 4 different variants) I copy paste those into a new folder and then use explorer search bar to dig out the aircraft.cfg files. I then select them all -> open (in dw ofc). Then, I simply use the find and replace, but the F&R feature in dw is far more enhanced than the basic feature in notepad.

 

I also use this method to consolidate my ezdok database. For example, I want all my aircraft vc cameras to use the same zoom. I then open them all in dw and use regex to replace all the different zoom entries to the same value. Of course, you can go wild and do many other changes.

 

PS,

I am a little surprised there isn't some freeware tool that can easily batch aircraft.cfg files.

[MarkW 1,493]

Why do you need to do this, how does editing it help you ?

 

 

I click in my drop down aircraft list.....example, PMDG.....then the PMDG aircraft I own pop up and I quickly scroll down and pick the aircraft model and livery I want.

[adi518 73]

I guess it's out of habit to have things well organized.

 

Btw, I use sim launcher which is amazing, anyone tried it? was there a thread about it? amazing piece of software that is also freeware!

[JSkorna 137]

MarkW,

 

Because after awhile it is hard to remember who released what and what you own, or in the case of freeware, downloaded. Boeing, Airbus, Piper, I know. Developer X, Y, Z, not so sure after all these years.

[Lowflyer 97]

Why do you need to do this, how does editing it help you ?

 

I guess we just like to have all our Cessnas sorted under C as in Cessna rather than C as in Carenado. Oh, wait...

[bigrobmjca 1]

In the words of Johnny Cash "tellin' it like it is, ain't ya"  Ain't it a small world, I was just working on the same thing.

[NikkiA 7]

I guess we just like to have all our Cessnas sorted under C as in Cessna rather than C as in Carenado. Oh, wait...

 

OTOH, I like to know I can hit 'B' and find my beechs, rather than having to fish about looking, then remember 'oh yeah, that one's a carenado...'

 

I tend to think 'I'd like to fly a light twin, piper or beech?...' rather than 'I think I'll fly a carenado, no, wait, realair, no no, milviz... oh, flight1'

[adi518 73]

Exactly as he said.. ^^^^