As I have said before I am afraid that I have never really worked out how all the user interface options work in the FDC GUI and have tended to edit the end files, where possible, using a text editor. My recent bit of 'fun' with flap calls is just one example.
What I want to ask is this:
If I make a change in Options/Flightdeck Calls/VCP-X section, I must then click on 'Save & Exit' of course to keep any changes. But then back in the Flightdeck calls window, I assume I need to click on 'Save Changes' too, second from the right. But must I then also click on 'Save Profile', the first box on the left, to save these to the profiles that I will later load - or are the changes somehow applied globally without doing this? If I don't click 'Save Profile', I am not sure things get saved properly - as with the no flap call problem in another thread here.
However, if I do choose 'Save Profile', once I have entered the title in the box that appears, I immediately get a different ..._FDC_Controller.dat file - a new one for every profile I change. In addition, the profile (.pro) file as saved, instead of being 4- 5kbs in size, is now hundreds of kilobytes in size and takes ages to load, if it loads at all. The extra space is due to a new section at the end called [Parameters], which takes up about ten thousands lines of text, 99% of the .pro file. It's basically what is in the FDC.ini file. Is that supposed to happen?? Surely all my profiles aere supposed to be small files, not these monsters that are created when I press 'Save Profile' in the Flightdeck Calls window (given they don't load properly when you select them)?
Thanks for any information, whenever you have a moment or two.
Martin