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How do I enable aircraft center?

Postby FL2070 » Fri Jun 03, 2016 2:58 am

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=28877

I read this forum, and it instructs me to do this:
- Start the Qt launcher
- Go to the settings tab
- Click a button called 'Configure Add-On Aircraft and Scenery'

But there is no such button under the settings tab.

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Did something change in 2016.2? I have that version, and this tutorial says it's for 2016.1.
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Re: How do I enable aircraft center?

Postby elgaton » Fri Jun 03, 2016 6:53 am

Yes, the option was moved to the separate "Add-ons" tab. (Also, I think it is unnecessary to follow the tutorial you linked to - I believe that bug was fixed in 2016.2).
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Re: How do I enable aircraft center?

Postby Parnikkapore » Fri Jun 03, 2016 10:26 am

Is it? On Windows?

Gotta try it...
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Re: How do I enable aircraft center?

Postby FL2070 » Sun Jun 05, 2016 6:28 pm

Yes, I have 2016.2, but the aircraft center displays the blank page that was displayed in '16.1.
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Re: How do I enable aircraft center?

Postby jaxsin » Sun Jun 05, 2016 6:36 pm

can you download aircraft in the Qt launcher? If so then the appropriate catalog has been found and the in-sim aircraft center should just work. But the main concern should be the Qt launcher as this is the future direction of this feature as I understand it.
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Re: How do I enable aircraft center?

Postby Hooray » Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:24 pm

Update: As of yesterday, the built-in Canvas-based Aircraft Center has been entirely removed from the FlightGear GUI, and replaced with the Qt5-based GUI, the commit message saying:

https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fg ... 152d12c2a/
James Turner wrote:Needs a lot of testing, but aircraft can be installed / changed and
location adjusted from within the sim. After some number of times the
sim will crash.


Note that this means that Aircraft Center functionality will no longer be available to people if they don't also happen to use Qt5 and/or Phi (not sure if package manager functionality is provided there?), i.e. this is exactly the kind of "regression" we originally talked about, at which point we can safely dispense with the fiction that Qt5 is not going to become a required build-dependency, unlike the original statement made us believe.

Let's just hope that the removal of the Canvas-based Aircraft Center was coordinated with TheTom, especially given that the Canvas Aircraft Center -unlike its Qt5 replacement, wasn't exactly known for "crashing" FlightGear ...
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