Saving Panel State On Exit

[Nick_Jacobs]

Dear all,

I've added a small but hopefully useful feature to the 727 that allows the user to decide whether or not the current panel settings are saved on exit.

Presently the settings are saved automatically, so if you want to load the panel next time with a different configuration, you have to use COM. With the change I have made, you can specify in the GA727.cfg file whether you want the settings saved or bypassed.

If you are in mid flight and you want to retain those settings for continutation at a later time, you just set the flag in the cfg file to 1. If you don't want to retain the settings on exit, you set the flag to 0.

Probably you're not going to know what you want to do until you're about to exit the panel and not everyone is comfortable manually editing text files, so we could add a small discreet button to the panel to enable you to toggle between "save my current settings" or "don't save my current settings" if that would be useful to you.

Let me know what you think.

Regards
Nick Jacobs
727 programming - Dreamfleet

[MaxThrust]

Nick I'm confused a little bit. Do I have to save the flight for saving panel state or just exiting Flight Simulator also saving the panel state?


Regards,
Bozhan Özsoy.

[Paul Golding]

At the moment, your flight settings are automatically saved to a config file for the next time you use the 727. The problem ssems to be the number of people that have been looking at Config Manager and seeing 'Ready to Taxi' as the setup and then assuming that will be how the 727 loads...........it will only load this way if you select it in the drop down box and save it.

[ToddNicholson]

I think that this is a good idea:)

[kc10]

in the cfg file to 1<

Nick, are you refering to a new line in the cfg that is not in there now?

[ToddNicholson]

Yes, it is not there currently. It is something that will be added.

[kc10]

I see, thanks.

[newguy]

Bring it on, sometimes i get interrupted in midflight and have to quit. annoying to restart FS and have the panel load up in its past state from the last flight.

[kc10]

>annoying to restart FS and have the panel load up in its past state from the last flight<

Yeah but you don't have to do that. As it is now, just select your desired startup from the menu (even if it's already selected, reselect it) and save the CoM.

This new option is probably for those (like me) who didn't grasp that at first.

[amollen]

Why not add a fourth option to the CoM that says "State from previous flight" or something like that. In fact, that should probably be default (the way I understand it to be now if you don't touch the CoM in between flights).

[Tabs]

Great idea - hide the switch over on the FE panel somewhere... hehe!