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text-labels in missions

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Hi,

I have seen somewhere that it is possible to add small text-labels to different "points of interest" in a mission. You know - like the small labels that we have on the AI-aircrafts.
If I could have a XML-file with such a mission the I could figure out how this is done in a XML-file.
So if you know of such a file I will gratefull to know about it.

Also - if you know something more genral about how the guys at Microsoft manage to put on the small labels.
In the program FSDiscover they manged to do the same thing:

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fsdisc

Best Regards
Lars - DK
 
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If anybody know of a mission in FSX with tekst-labels like the ones on the attached jpg-file I would be gratefull to receive such a mssion XML file. Either by e-mail or as a link.
Thank you in advance.

BR
Lars - DK
 

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Hi,

I don't believe having the information displayed within a mission can be done by default.
I don't know what you're referring to when you say "how the guys at Microsoft manage to put on the small labels".
It's undocumented but the airport names can be made to display at 1500 feet above the airport by enabling this "TOGGLE_AIRPORT_NAME_DISPLAY" in the Standard.xml keyboard section, if that's any help.

Jim F.
 
Hi Jim,

What I mean is that "the guys at Microsoft" have managed to create the possibility to show text-labels over the airports as you say.
Also the AI aircrafts comes with small re text-labels. So somehow it is possible to label objects and coordinates!
A payware program called FSDiscover (from Flight1) has managed to show lots of text-labels at so-calledf POI's (points of interest). The picture shown in this thread is a screeshot from this program.
I have never created nor used missions, I just had an idea that it was possible in a mission to label som places in the scenery in order to instruct the user to fly in the correct direction or show an interésting place in the scenery. But apparently this is not correct.
I guess to reach my goal I have to work hard with a lot of c++ programming and studying of the simconnect entity.

BR
Lars
 
Can it be done? Yes, since Flight1 released a program for "Points of Interest" several years ago which does precisely that...

Unfortunately, I've no idea whatever how the programmer accomplished this task, except that is is an add-on .dll module that hacks into the FS core engine.
 
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