BGLXML.EXE has been released

[Guest LarryJ_KMSO]

Hi Tom,For one thing, the ctFSData class contains all the enumerations. I'll write a little program that prints them out later today so you can see what I mean. For example, buried in the class is an enum(eration) for stSurface. ASPHALT would be 0, BITUMINOUS would be 1, BRICK would be 2 etc. More importantly, it seems to me ( a totally newbie to C# and .NET programming so I may not know what I am talking about!!) , you should be able to read a .blg file using a c# .net program that looks something like this. (Doesn't work and I don't know why !!) If it would work, all the .bgl guts would be contained in various classes within the d object accessible for you to change and modify.Any other C# .NET programmers out there? Maybe someone can tell me why the program below fails at the creation of the serializer object complaining about missing a .dll each time. The .dll name is different each time and seemingly random. Something to do with the GAC, I suspect...?Larryprivate void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { ctFSData d = new ctFSData(); XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ctFSData)); // A FileStream is needed to read the XML document. string filename = @"D:FSUIPC_PgmsPilotLogBGL_DumpbinDebugAP917160.BGL"; FileStream fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open); XmlReader reader = new XmlTextReader(fs); d = (ctFSData) serializer.Deserialize(fs); }

[Guest alexanto]

>Mr Alessandro G. Antonini has released a long awaited tool to>convert bgl files to xml.>>I have tried to use it but when I try to compile a bgl file it>tells me that the particular bgl is not in the FS2004 Library.Thanks for advertising my software :-)There are only a few BGL files which uses the real FS2004 format - all the rest just seems a re-use of the old FS2002/2000 AFD format. That's my fault however: I will issue a more meaningful message with the next bglxml release. This is a list of prefixes found to be in FS2004 format (therefore dealt by bglxml):AP*.BGL - containing airport entries and anything related to themAT*.BGL - containing all waypoint and routes NV*.BGL - containing VOR and NDB OB*.BGL - containing buildings and some modeldata.All other files named with cities (e.g. SANFRAN.BGL,SANDIEGO.BGL,DC.BGL) contain model datas for that city and are also dealt by BGLXML.Hope it helps.

[Guest tomcjones]

Thanks many times Alessandro for bglxml. Just keep up the good workAlso Larry thanks for the input.Tom Jones

[Guest LarryJ_KMSO]

For Tom and others:Here's a text file containing the values of the Enumerations found in FSDATA that I promised yesterday. There are 43 of them.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/61971.txtLarry Jones