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What Irritates you about ADE?

I can't say that happens to me and I am not sure what could be done about it. I guess if the double click is slow then it might generate an extra vertex. I will run some tests and see if I can replicate it.
 
Lane Street said:
What do you guys think of having right-click to close polys?

cheers,
Lane
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Maybe or perhaps Alt-Click if the double click causes a problem Right click is probably not the best because it is used to open the context menu. Let me look at it.
 
OK - here is a question for you folks who have the double click close issue - when creating a poly do you left mouse down and drag between points or do you left click, move the cursor to the next position and so on? I always use the second method - I don't bother to drag between points. If you are dragging then try without. Dragging means the mouse down is at one point and the mouse up at the next. So the mouse down and up at one point relate to different vertex. So the last one to close needs mouse up followed by a double click and that could generate a second vertex perhaps.


Not sure I am explaining this very well. I got woken early this morning to chase a lamb out of the garden and I am not really that awake :oops:
 
Jon

I can now replicate the double vertex issue. It is the aircraft symbol crosshair that causes it.

As per the picture if you double click on the crosshair to complete any draw that uses vertex the double vertex is added.

004 should be 003 since it was the double click to close the apron. 003 is under the 004.
fsscr020.jpg
 
ADE never irritates me because it's an incredible gift to our hobby.

I'm not a very accomplished user, but there are a couple of things I thought of to improve ADE:

1. Integrated way to make a background image. Currently I use either SBuilderX or Rhumba's Gmaps and they work fine but both ways involve numerous steps. I like how SketchUp does it: You click a Google Earth button and it shows you a map. You can search for a location in a search box, zoom and pan the map, and then click a 'Select Region' button which displays a rectangular box to show what you are capturing. You can move the corners of the selection and then click 'Grab' and the geo-referenced image is captured and imported.

2. A way to load terrain data for reference (not to edit) similar to tmfviewer. That makes it easier to see roads around the airport, elevations, locations of airport background polygons (the stock scenery stores airport backgrounds in CVX files) etc. This would help for example to position buildings along roads or to add terrain vectors or polygons in ADE to augment what's in the scenery.

Thanks very much for ADE!
 
Jim,

I'm sure this is not true, but I have created double vertexes when I double clicked on my original starting point, so I thought I would check.

If you double click on top of the first vertex you created to form the final apron/polygon, you can get a double vertex. If so, double click when you create the *next to last* side. The last side will be created automatically.

To create a rectangular apron (for example):
Click once to create the first vertex.
Move to the right and click again to create the bottom horizontal side.
Move up and click again to create the upper corner.
Move to the left and DOUBLE CLICK to create the 4th vertex.
The last side will appear automatically.

Hope this helps,
 
1. Integrated way to make a background image. Currently I use either SBuilderX or Rhumba's Gmaps and they work fine but both ways involve numerous steps. I like how SketchUp does it: You click a Google Earth button and it shows you a map. You can search for a location in a search box, zoom and pan the map, and then click a 'Select Region' button which displays a rectangular box to show what you are capturing. You can move the corners of the selection and then click 'Grab' and the geo-referenced image is captured and imported.
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That is a very interesting suggestion and I will look into it.

2. A way to load terrain data for reference (not to edit) similar to tmfviewer. That makes it easier to see roads around the airport, elevations, locations of airport background polygons (the stock scenery stores airport backgrounds in CVX files) etc. This would help for example to position buildings along roads or to add terrain vectors or polygons in ADE to augment what's in the scenery.
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Unfortunately we have never been able to decode the CVX file format so it is not possible for us to do this sort of thing.
 
The fact that the taxiway drop-down in link properties are listed in create date order. All other lists or drop-downs are in alphabetical order.
 
OK George - I have put that with the other stuff on Lists.
 
So you are referring to the taxi name list in the property dialog....
 
Hi. I'm very new to ADE. Thank you so much for this great software. Very easy to get into it.
So after more than 20 years of FS (yeah, I play MSFS since FS4 on my Mac SE in the early 90s) I'm finaly building the scenery of one of my home airport that no one ever did realy.

I'm not sure, I could be mistaken, but I did read (most of) the help manual :
I don't get why I can't copy and paste a group of objects. I miss it so much.

Also, a function to group objects, and even give a name to this group of objects would be great. Lock, Show and hide function would be then so powerful.
 
Unless there is a option to turn it off, I don't like how ADE will connect to FS automatically and I am unable to disconnect it.
 
Jon

This is an update to the double vertex I reported on with pictures in the above post. This problem started with Version 1.50.

The double vertex is not part of the crosshair code but is related to the lock code that ADE uses. Anytime ADE is locked to FSX the last vertex to close the poly will be duplicated (one on top the other). It does not matter what is drawn in ADE such as blast fences, chain fences, aprons, all polys and shape vectors generated with shp2vec, etc.

If ADE is unlocked no double vertex is created on the ending double click.

It is very easy to replicate. Just lock ADE to FSX and then draw someting that uses vertex's. The double click to close the object being drawn will create 2 vertex on top each other.

Same applies to both type lock codes in use for FSX
Same applies to using FS9 when drawing the Poly or Aprons.
 
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