Flag behaviour?

[matthys70]

Okay .. I'm a bit lost as I had to reinstall Virtual Radar (now 2.3.1) after not using it for couple of months but notice some different behaviour in how the flags are displayed.

So I hope somebody could explain .. maybe I do something wrong?
In the version I used before (2.1.0) if there was a image with registration of the plane if would use that, else it would use the Operator ICAO. These images are all in the OperatorFlags folder.
But I notice I have a lot of empty ones if there is no Operator ICAO specified but there is an image with registration in the OperatorFlags folder.

Is this normal behaviour?

Thanks,
Matthijs

[agw]

I took the registration lookup out because some registrations were indistinguishable from model types or operator flags, it was causing the wrong flags to be displayed for some aircraft. However, you can switch it back on with the custom content plugin.

If you install the custom content plugin, save the following to a file called SwitchRegistrationFlagOverrideOn.html and then tell the custom content plugin to add it to the END of HEAD for address *

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<script type="text/javascript">
    if(VRS && VRS.globalDispatch && VRS.serverConfig) {
        VRS.globalDispatch.hook(VRS.globalEvent.bootstrapCreated, function(bootStrap) {
            VRS.globalOptions.aircraftAllowRegistrationFlagOverride = true;
        });
    }
</script>

Instructions for configuring the custom content plugin can be found here:

http://www.virtualradarserver.co.uk/Doc ... tings.aspx

[matthys70]

THANKS ..and yes I know as I reported this bug as well.
Thought are the logo's not in separate folders and should be no issue, right?

Operator Flags (and registration) logo's = OperatorFlags
Silhouettes logo's = SilhouettesLogos

[agw]

From what I remember the site sends a set of alternative codes for the flags, e.g. the registration and the operator code, and there were registrations that were clashing with codes. Because the registration had precedence it ended up showing the wrong flag for people that didn't have registration flags in their operator flags folder but did have an operator flag that matched the registration, so it wound up showing the wrong operator flag. It was something along those lines.

[matthys70]

Bit off-topic, this is what I mentioned about wrong flag in previous version (see last bit Questions about VR 2.1.0):

I was familiar with that problem, in my case it sometimes took Silhouette and not the Registration if there was no Operation Code.
In that case the Registration of the plane was the same as the Type code....
I rather would like to see Operation Code or Registration by pull-down box or by custom content plugin configurable.
Not associated with Type (Silhouette)... also do not understand why to take Type, as Silhouettes are in different folder.

What I remember it mainly happens with military planes where registration is like M4 or so....

[Skibox]

What about linking custom Op Flags to ICAO-hex instead of a Reg ? Would that work? There would be no risk of mix-up with operator codes, and still provide the same functionality ?

/M