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Cheers . . .

John

Dear Dave,

I am vet conscious that you have been busy lately dealing with urgent issues but am hoping things are quietening down now (if they ever do) and that you might be able to look at this.

To be honest, the "blinking" gauge has been driving me round the blinking bend so I have again reverted to v3.12 where neither problem I raised appears to exist. If feel sure it was the introduction of the PF3 Web display in the next version that caused this problem to arise.

Just a thought - can the PF3 Web Display be turned off or manually disabled to prove that is the cause? I'm happy to help with any testing required.

John

johnhinson wrote: *

Thu Apr 14, 2022 6:00 pm

To be honest, the "blinking" gauge has been driving me round the blinking bend so I have again reverted to v3.12 where neither problem I raised appears to exist. If feel sure it was the introduction of the PF3 Web display in the next version that caused this problem to arise.

Just a thought - can the PF3 Web Display be turned off or manually disabled to prove that is the cause? I'm happy to help with any testing required.

Hi John,

I would be very surprised if your TGS problem has anything to do with the introduction of PF3 Web Display as it is separate piece of software that uses the same interface into PF3 as the standard PF3 Display feature. But I'm sure Dave will be along shortly to disabuse me of this notion ...

Martin
PF3 Web Display developer

Hi John,

So sorry to let this one slip by for so long. As I said in an earlier post I am able to recreate it so should be able to find the cause. Unfortunately I have a really busy family day tomorrow (Saturday & Sunday) and Monday is my wedding anniversary, so I doubt the current Mrs 'M' will want me messing about on the pc. Please do give me a nudge first thing Tuesday morning and I'll tackle it then

Of course! Family must come first and I wasn't really expecting or assuming you would be rolling your sleeves up over the holiday period. Enjoy the break.

And most of all we must look after Mrs M as she leads a busy life doing cabin announcements and reading ATIS reports in my world.

John

Well, this has had me pulling what's left of my hair out!

There was nothing (I could see) that was changed in 3.13.0 that could affect the TGS gauge/display. But since you said 3.12.0 worked I had to keep looking. But no joy. I could see what was happening and it's just an incompatibility between FDC and TGS gauge/display (not PF3) caused by a clash between a reserved FDC FSUIPC offset. What was really throwing me though was you saying that it worked with 3.12.0 and I couldn't find a copy of that anywhere. So, I tried with 3.9.0 and as expected the problem was evident there also.

So, please send me a copy of 3.12.0 as I'd love to give that a go here. I'm pretty sure that will still have the problem and maybe you're using an older version of TGS?

Going forward I could maybe tweak the TGS_Display program to work with FDC but not the gauge unfortunately. I'm not a gauge programmer and don't even have the source code for it.

Hi Dave,

Here is a link to the 3.12.0 Cumulative Installer that I have:
http://adventure-unlimited.org/misc/PF3 ... 210829.zip

The process I followed to reinstall this was to de-register the current version, install my base install (from Aerosoft, I think), re-register and update with this. I have done this twice (a couple of months ago and very recently) and both times it has put the gauge back to proper working.

The tgs.gau I am using is dated 2/1/09.

TGS_Display.exe appears to work correctly, but I only have one screen. I do run FS in windowed mode using about 90% of the screen but there is insufficient space to display TGS_Display.exe big enough for my eyesight. I did try a third-party utility to make it display "always on top" but that stopped it working. If it had a feature that did keep it on top of the FS window that might be a solution for me.

Not sure what else I can tell you at this stage, but ask away. I am away early in the morning for more eye attention but will reply when I can.

Hope you had a good Easter break and anniversary.

John

Thanks for that John... That makes more sense if you reinstalled 3.12 rather than just use the PF3.exe, as you'll be using a previous version of TGS.

I'll check it out later today as I'm out this morning.

Your link isn't working John

You could just send me the PF3.exe and TGS.exe if it's easier

Here we are . . . hopefully!

John