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AirNav RadarBox and RadarBox24.com => AirNav RadarBox and RadarBox24.com Discussion => Topic started by: rocket on April 24, 2008, 03:07:00 PM
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Hi All,
Can anyone explain why the last letter is missed off all of the airport names on my radarbox screen? and how do I correct it please?
Also, when I zoom in, I get what look like white railway tracks or combs, what are they please, and how do I get rid of them if I want to?#
Best regards
Mark
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Hi All,
Can anyone explain why the last letter is missed off all of the airport names on my radarbox screen? and how do I correct it please?
Also, when I zoom in, I get what look like white railway tracks or combs, what are they please, and how do I get rid of them if I want to?#
Best regards
Mark
A screenshot would make it much easier to see what you are talking about :-)
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Here is a screenshot of what I mean (I hope)
[attachment deleted by admin]
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Dont Know about airport Names. but i think the things you are taking about on map are
are fightpaths in and out of airports, Runways are the little bit in the middle. hope this helps you Tony
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Rocket, what font are you using?
As Airmad said, the "combs" are the final approach tracks for airfields. If you don't want them on, use Map | Aviation Signs | Airport to turn on/off, or use the Map drop-down menu (to the left of the "Home" button.
If the final approach tracks are too bright for you, try changing their colour using File | Preferences | Map Colours - see the manual for more details.
Allocator
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Hi,
OK, thank you for the advice about the flight paths in and out of the airports :)
I need to get this right, because the screenshot you see is from the demo model I have running here at the shop, and as we are an AirNav Systems dealer, I want to make sure that I give the best visual product impact as we are building up a really strong AirNav customer base.
The closest airport to the shop for example is Luton, but this does not display correctly as you can see by the screenshot, all the other airports are wrong too, Heathrow is missing the last letter, some of the others are missing their last 2 letters.
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Rocket, what font are you using?
As Airmad said, the "combs" are the final approach tracks for airfields. If you don't want them on, use Map | Aviation Signs | Airport to turn on/off, or use the Map drop-down menu (to the left of the "Home" button.
If the final approach tracks are too bright for you, try changing their colour using File | Preferences | Map Colours - see the manual for more details.
Allocator
The font could be the key to my problem?
It is odd though, I have not changed any font settings within the RB software, it is as it was straight from the software disc, no add-ons etc.
I find this interesting though, if a customer asks me the same question - then I need to have the answer!
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Hi Mark,
Never heard of this issue before. Its very curious.
One item comes to mind is whether you have Large Fonts in your resolution and display settings?
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Mark,
I'm using Terminal Font size 9 Regular
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2350/2439476382_764d4dc8c2.jpg)
Allocator
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Mark,
Here is a screenshot of the same area taken from my PC. Your station labels look to be bold but I can't see a way to change this, as the font settings only affect the aircraft labels:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/2438665065_e9f089ec66_o.jpg)
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I am using Tahoma font size 10 with no trunkation
Mike
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Mark, AirNav,
I've found the problem!
If you have "Names" on without the "Identifier" then the names are truncated.
Mark, select the Identifier as well Map | Aviation Signs | Station Labels | Identifier
then all will be OK :-)
Below: only "Names" selected:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2439502124_e30d950edf_o.jpg)
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ok so slightly off topic but around the same subject. Having read Allocators note above I tried the same thing.
I noticed however that the drop down menu "Aviation Signs" - "Station Labels" always has all of the items ticked even if that item isn't on.
Is this meant to be the case or is this just a very minor bug. Or is it just me.
Jim
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Jim, it's a bug.
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Hi,
Excellent, thank you for your help!
All sorted now :)
Screenshot of it fixed attached
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Glad you got that sorted Mark, however, you might like to look at some of the alternative colour schemes, as I don't think that the "brown" one is the nicest! Try the other colour schemes in the menu drop down list, or take a look at some of these uploaded by other RadarBox users. The .mcl file goes in the AirNav RadarBox 2008/Color (American spelling!) directory, then they also appear in the drop down list.
http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=176.0
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Glad you got that sorted Mark, however, you might like to look at some of the alternative colour schemes, as I don't think that the "brown" one is the nicest! Try the other colour schemes in the menu drop down list, or take a look at some of these uploaded by other RadarBox users. The .mcl file goes in the AirNav RadarBox 2008/Color (American spelling!) directory, then they also appear in the drop down list.
http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=176.0
Hi,
Thank you, this is very useful!
How do I download the file and save it correctly, when I try it do it Windows wants to open it with a program from the list?
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Mark,
Try right clicking on the file name, then select "Save As" and browse to your /Color directory to save.
Although you don't want to make your RadarBox too "non-standard" as it works well "out of the box", if you want to demonstrate how you can use outline files to show airports and airways, take a look at these:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=58.0
http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=632.0
And here, see the last post by me on the first page:
http://www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=802.msg6046#msg6046
Allocator
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Wow, this is fantastic, thank you!
I'm all for loading it up, yesterday was my first day having it as a demo here at the shop, I have ditched the SBS-1 as a demo, and now the RadarBox takes pride of place!
Anything that can make it look as attractive as possible as in your last post is most appreciated.