A2A 172 for P3D v4 installs into documents folder?

[CaribbeanCLANK 134]

We have dynamic lighting, we have a 64 bit application and we have backward compatibility...next on the flight sim wish list for me...SIMPLICITY! 

[mawibo 33]

11 minutes ago, MarkW said:

edit the add-ons.cfg to point to the new folder

That should be: ... the add-on.xml file ...

Maarten

[Ssnake51 3]

2 hours ago, MarkW said:

Guys, you don't have to move your documents folder.  Move A2A to the folder of your choice and then edit the add-ons.cfg to point to the new folder.  Done.

 That option should be given when installing the aircraft.  We shouldn't be expected to have to move it after the installation.

[MarkW 1,490]

28 minutes ago, Ssnake51 said:

 That option should be given when installing the aircraft.  We shouldn't be expected to have to move it after the installation.

Agreed.

[Scott - A2A 164]

We made the P3Dv4 installers this way because we did not want to take any chances messing up anyone's custom locations, as there are so many possible traps. But after reading everyone's feedback here, the team spent the day going over this and we think we have an improved system that should work for everyone.  The most important thing is it's reliable regardless of how someone wants it to be setup.  We're testing this over the weekend and when it's ready, we'll roll it out to our store and other distribution partners.

If everyone is happy with this new approach, we'll make it the new standard for the entire A2A P3Dv4 roll out to come.

Scott
A2A Simulations Inc.

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

What a nice man.

[Farlis 2,277]

Now I really hope Aerosoft is also on board with this new approach.

[gboz 157]

31 minutes ago, Scott - A2A said:

We made the P3Dv4 installers this way because we did not want to take any chances messing up anyone's custom locations, as there are so many possible traps. But after reading everyone's feedback here, the team spent the day going over this and we think we have an improved system that should work for everyone.  The most important thing is it's reliable regardless of how someone wants it to be setup.  We're testing this over the weekend and when it's ready, we'll roll it out to our store and other distribution partners.

If everyone is happy with this new approach, we'll make it the new standard for the entire A2A P3Dv4 roll out to come.

Scott
A2A Simulations Inc.

Thanks for the feedback Scott.

Just wondering what is the argument against just using LM's recommendations as per this post: 

 

gb.

 

[Scott - A2A 164]

gboz,

We are very much on board with this system.  It's not that, but only the process of getting the files in the customer's desired place regardless of where that is.  For example, many don't want their add-ons in that directory and have a special place already setup and we need to support that.

Scott.

[Ssnake51 3]

Thanks for the good news Scott.  Appreciate that you are so open to helping your customers out.

[joepoway 241]

14 hours ago, Scott - A2A said:

gboz,

We are very much on board with this system.  It's not that, but only the process of getting the files in the customer's desired place regardless of where that is.  For example, many don't want their add-ons in that directory and have a special place already setup and we need to support that.

Scott.

If we have already used the original installer for the C172 and its in the my docs folder what would be the easiest way to change that to a new location? Would it involve changing the add-on.xml file manually?

Joe

[Scott - A2A 164]

On 6/3/2017 at 9:58 AM, joepoway said:

If we have already used the original installer for the C172 and its in the my docs folder what would be the easiest way to change that to a new location? Would it involve changing the add-on.xml file manually?

Joe

Here's a link that should help explain:  http://www.a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=59802

Scott