I use FSBuild to create my flight plans.  Now I need to have a gfp format for some of my planes.  So when I try to open the fsxse with little navmap I get an error: Caught exception  "invalid lat/long format "N49(then a tiny diamond shape with a ? inside.  I think it's the degree symbol) then the long degree gets the same error symbol.  The thing is when I save the flight plan I put together in little navmap, it has the same symbol for degrees as the ones made by FSBuild.  Any reason this is happing?  Right now I take my route log from fsbuild and manually put it in navmap the n export it to gfp format.

Hi John,

maybe some encoding problems? Can you upload the zipped (to avoid encoding changes by programs) flightplan somewhere or send it to me by email?

BTW: LNM can also calculate flight plans if you do no plan to cross an ocean.

Alex

Hi Alex,

Quite a bit off topic here.. I am a self taught, hobbyist programmer using VB2008, having the same problem when writing back the degree symbol to FSX.cfg. My little program just changes a few parameters (tex max load, crash on/off etc..) and preselects a saved flight from the documents library. (similar to SimStarter but with much less "fluff") Below is what I have and the only options available are ASCII, Unicode & UTF's 7,8 & 32, UTF8 is the best option, by far, tested. Have looked all over the web for ideas and still cannot get this to work. 

May you provide a little insight? 

Dim UTF As New System.Text.UTF8Encoding

My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("c:\users\me\appdata\roaming\microsoft\fsx\fsx.cfg", ConvertedText, False, encoding:=UTF)

Thought of this just now, would this work? (During read)

If LineOfText.Contains("°") Then
LineOfText.Replace("°", "°")
End If

-OR-
If LineOfText.Contains("°") Then
LineOfText.Replace("°", "°")
End If

Thanks in advanced & THANK YOU for your irreplaceable programs!! (Little Logbook too!     )

 

@spokes2112 I sent you a PM so we do not hijack the thread.

Replacing the deg is not needed when reading. When writing I keep it. The " is more important and has to be replaced with " (normally but you can also find it in PLN files).

The simulators are usually very tolerant when it comes to malformed flight plans. Other applications are usually more a problem and require Windows line endings and some even cannot deal with the valid XML comments I leave in the files. All this needed a lot of tweaking.

Alex

Here's a zip of a short flight I made to day.  Again I got the same error.  I seem to be unable to upload the file.  How do I email it to you.

Click my signature image. There is a contact link with the email address.

Alex