A couple weeks ago, www.flightsim.com had an announcement that Abacus had published a new package that can be used to point out "easter eggs" from a database. The deal was, "add to the data-base, especially in the following areas, and you can receive a copy of the software." Needless to say, I ended up contributing and getting a free copy.

When using this package, EZ-Landmark, in conjunction with Konstantin Kukushkin's other package, EZ-VFR, there is a small problem. The font-sizes are changeable, but the font colour remains the same red that is used by FS in the windows titles/slew coords./etc. Needless to say, in some areas, this results in a lot of overlap between a lot of airports, and the easter eggs.

My question was, especially for those who beta-tested FS, and who might well have better contacts than the rest of us, "is there a way to change this so that one program can use one colour, another uses a 2nd, etc."

As always, any help would be appreciated.

"TD - Virtual FAA investigators are on line 2, AGAIN!!!"

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Hi TD,

In all honesty it would be better for you to inform Abacus of this as they are in a position to patch this problem. I can tell you MS will not as there isn't going to be any patch's from MS in relation to FS2002.

I'd have thought Abacus and THEIR Beta Testers would have picked this up them selfs

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James (CONman) Anderson

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James,

I had informed them of this, and their response was that it appeared that the colours appeared "locked" by the FS program itself. I was wondering if you, or one of the other beta-testers had any information on how to work around this, because they (Abacus) had not found one in two months of working on it.

"TD - Virtual FAA investigators are on line 2, AGAIN!!!"

Hi TD,

Not seen a post on this in Beta Group so will dig around for you mate.

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Hi TD,

>>My question was, especially for those who beta-tested FS, and who might
well have better contacts than the rest of us, "is there a way to change
this so that one program can use one colour, another uses a 2nd, etc."<<

As a tester myself, I have to agree with James here. The font color problem is really one that Abacus needs to address somehow. The dev team cannot try to anticipate what a 3rd party developer may try to do, nor is it really there job to try. This is a scenario where Abacus should contact MS directly to try and find a solution. If Abacus just simply blames MS, then it's out of line in my opinion. It's kind of like complaining to GM because the stereo you bought from a third party supplier only works with 6 volt reverse polarity vehicles <g>.

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As a tester myself, I have to agree with James here. The font color problem is really one that Abacus needs to address somehow. The dev team cannot try to anticipate what a 3rd party developer may try to do, nor is it really there job to try. This is a scenario where Abacus should contact MS directly to try and find a solution. If Abacus just simply blames MS, then it's out of line in my opinion. It's kind of like complaining to GM because the stereo you bought from a third party supplier only works with 6 volt reverse polarity vehicles <g>.

Maybe I stated it a bit offensively, for which I apologize. I had mentioned to them that the two add-ons would benefit from a modification letting the user set the font-colour (and thinking of it now, perhaps even the font itself) to eliminate confusion. They said they had spent about two months on the problem, and that their best ability to determine why the colour seemed to be locked was that it was an integral part of the programming. They were not really blaming MS, although I am not sure if they have contacted MS for a work-around either.

I just said that I would check and see if there any thoughts by the folks who had been part of the beta-test (and had been posted on the topic during the test phase). In the event it had been mentioned, there might be a way to point them in their fixing it.

Sure, they need to probably contact MS (and probably would be better, as they have a history of providing 3rd party addons), but I thought I would help out if I could.

"TD - Virtual FAA investigators are on line 2, AGAIN!!!"

Hi TD,

Will have another look through the Beta Archives to see if there ever was any mention of Fonts and Colours <s>.

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Thanks CON. I appreciate the effort. Sorry if I stepped on toes.

"TD - Virtual FAA investigators are on line 2, AGAIN!!!"

Hi TD,

No problem my friend and you didn't stand on mine as I never felt a thing

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