• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSX:SE language.dll

E

eric_marciano

Messages
531
Country
france
Hello experts !!

It's been a while that I didn't come on this site that I like so much, I am happy to see the developer part is still active, this is great :)

I have a problem with the language.dll file on FSX-Steam Edition, here it is:
- My EasyFMC add-on can generate flight plans that can be saved. In order to save them at the right location, I read the language.dll file because the name of the FSX file directory is indicated there and it depends on the locale of the sim:
- "Flight Simulator X files" for the English version
- "Fichiers de Flight Simulator X" for the French version
- Other values for Spanish, Italian, German...

So reading entry #36864 in language.dll solves the problem, you just have to read there and you find the name of the folder to save your flight plans. It works perfect with FS2004, FSX and P3D.

But Steam did things differently !! Why? I don't know...
It appears that with FSX-SE, the flight plans should be saved in "Flight Simulator X - Steam Edition files". So you should expect the entry #36864 would be updated to reflect this change. but NO !!
They left the standard FSX value at #36864 (that is "Flight Simulator X files") and they created a new entry #36893, which exists in no other version of this language.dll and contains the right value "Flight Simulator X - Steam Edition files".

Of course, EasyFMC reads entry #36864, finds a good value and saves the flight plans there, at the wrong location...
Did any of you also noticed this problem?
I can find a fix but it will make my code ugly... Did I go wrong somewhere?

Thanks for any help !!
Eric
 
Heretic

Heretic

Resource contributor
Messages
6,830
Country
germany
If you have FSX Boxed installed alongside FSX Steam, the latter will create its own registry entries and configuration folders in order not to mess things up.

Your problem is one that a lot of payware devs needed to solve after the release of FSX:SE, so at least you're not on your own.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top