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FS2004 BGLCOMP buffer overflow

Frédéric Revol

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Hi,

I'm still having the FSX/FS2004 issue where ADE9X is actually creating an FSX xml file but I manage to get it to work once some of the specific xml entries for FSX are removed (ie traffic scalar, etc...).

However, I'm now well advanced in my project and get the following message from BGLCOMP :

FATAL ERROR: Airport Output buffer OVERFLOW

The only solution is to split the xml in several parts but then, either the aprons do not appear or, the taxiways, etc...

Is this a known issue? Is there any workaround?

Thanks, Brgds

Fred
 
We need to understand how the program is accessing the FSX Bgl Comp when in FS9 mode. ADE9X has a copy of the FS9 BglComp located in the FS9 section of the program which it should be using. For FSX it needs the FSX SDK installed.

Perhaps you can check in the FS9 folder of ADE and let me have the file date and version number of BglComp.exe located there.

The correct one is dated Jan 5th 2004 with a product version of 9.0.0.0
 
Frédéric Revol said:
Jon,

The version I have is indeed 5th Jan 2004 but shows version 0.0.0.4

Fred
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No that is the file version, not the product version.

So can you please explain your problem. Is this a FS9 project or FSX project. Are you saying that your FS9 project is going through the FS9 compiler?

Also I can't recall ever seeing this error. It sounds like you are compiling XML manually - is that correct?
 
OK.

You're right, the version is 9.0.0.0

This is an FS9 project which I run through the BGLCOMP but because ADE9X creates the xml file with, for example, TrafficScalar lines, I have to remove them before compiling. It was working fine until now as I get this overflow message.

Fred
 
Frédéric Revol said:
OK.

You're right, the version is 9.0.0.0

This is an FS9 project which I run through the BGLCOMP but because ADE9X creates the xml file with, for example, TrafficScalar lines, I have to remove them before compiling. It was working fine until now as I get this overflow message.

Fred
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I'm sorry that I don't understand - ADE in FS9 mode does not generate any XML that cannot be compiled by the FS9 BglComp. you are using ADE in FS9 Mode?
 
Jon,

This is something we have already discussed together and was fixed for the next release. Anyway, the problem is that the xml generated does create this overflow which I do not understand.

Fred
 
Frédéric Revol said:
Jon,

This is something we have already discussed together and was fixed for the next release. Anyway, the problem is that the xml generated does create this overflow which I do not understand.

Fred
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Then please zip up the full xml file and email it to me - jon AT scruffyduck.co.uk
 
I finally managed to get the xml file open in ADEX. I need to go back to the point that the XML file is an FSX file containing data that can only be compiled in FSX. You refer to us having a previous discussion on this and I apologize that I do not recall it immediately

Nevertheless the immediate problem can be seen in the screenshot

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There are over 2800 taxi links in this file - most of them closed and most emanating from a single point on the airport (the ARP) (the stock airport in FSX has 103). This crashes the Fault finder which is another problem and I need to investigate that. I notice that a lot of them seem to have ICE as the surface and a width of 0.5m

However I would start on the assumption that the BglComp Stack Overflow is related to these rogue taxi links.

They clearly all need to be removed. Second if this is intended to be used in FS9 it needs to be cleaned up of FSX elements. The FS9 Bglcomp will continue to throw errors until that is done.
 
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Jon,

The display you have (and I have tried that too) is strange since this is not what I have in ADE native. Anyway, I have found no other way but the closed links to simulate the apron markings.

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What I have done is to keep my current ADE9 project and split the xml into several parts in order to have smaller xml files that do compile perfectly. Guess that's the best way at the time.

Thanks for your help. Great to have a tool like ADE9.

Fred
 
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