A Few Problems

[EHM-2144 Terry]

Most of these problems may be down to me as I uninstalled a load of programs about a week ago so I may have taken out some of the OS files.

I done a download of the timetable and flight notes. Extracted the files and then, when I opened them they came up as some type of coding, i.e. squares and other characters on the page.

Flight Notes.  Both files opened with characters

Timetable.  when I run program, error message said: Component 'MSINET.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered. A file is missing or invalid

If it comes down to a reboot of my pc, (which is long overdue) does anyone have any suggestions about setting the pc up so fs9 runs better.

Many thanks

TerryS

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Hi Terry,

Firstly welcome to EHM!

Ok, now on to your problems... The flight notes are a couple fo Microsoft Word Documents. You will need MS word to read these, if you don't have it, let me know and I will see about converting it for you.

Second The timetable downloader... This sounds like you do not have a component registered. Try downloading and installing the flight logger first then try running it. Do you have a software firewall (Norton, AVG  or OneCare etc) running that may be stopping it?

What operating system are you using? XP? If you decide to format your PC the only thing to remember with FS is try and keep background tasks to a minimum so try not to install too many programs that runn all the time in the background like HP printer monitors or RealPlayer schedulers etc. These sort of programs eat small amounts of cpu time that when all coupled together will have an effect on your Frame Rate in FS.

[EHM-2144 Terry]

Thanks Phil

Will try all you said.  

I only have microsoft works i'm afraid.  

This is quite an old pc really, but have upgraded it mainly on memory, graphics etc over the last 3 years but generally not a bad spec considering.  Hopefully will be getting a top end gaming pc soon though.

OS system is XP SP2.  2.4 P4,  1gb memory,  nvidia fx5500 gps and dare I say it is a dell machine:$

Firewall is microsoft and anti-virus is AVG.

Let you know how I get on.

TerryS

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Well you should be able to load those files on Microsoft works, let me know if you cant (you may have to go to the import menu!)

Cheers,

[EHM-2144 Terry]

I have done the reboot Phil.  Downloaded timetable and flight notes again but unfortunately still get same problems.  Tried to import etc but still not able to get them to open or install. :[

With the Timetable it shows that this is done in excel which I do not have either but I do have Microsoft works spreadsheet.

I was wondering is there any chance I could perhaps speak to someone on Teamspeak?

Terry

[EHM-0654 Jean]

Really obvious suggestion re: MS Office documents is download and use OpenOffice to open them Writer for Word docs, Calc for Excel sheets, etc.

http://www.openoffice.org

(Murray Crane, the online flying coordinator, using the account I built for my Mum

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

Guys,

I've been trying to use the Timetable downloader for a project I'm working on but for some reason it doesn't open properly in OpenOffice Calc...

It opens (after a long pause) instead in "OpenOffice Writer/Web" in the form of a text based table. This makes it very difficult to search and sort properly!

Anybody got any ideas why this might be happening?

[EHM-1703 Philip]

You could try opening it as a CSV file. That may help, let me know. i guess Murray is the best as I think he also uses open office.

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

Sorry Phil, no idea what you mean..! How do I open it as a CSV??

[EHM-2029 Sotiris]

Hi Dom,

well, I'm not using your office suite as I am currently stuck with M$ Office.
To open a .csv (comma separated values; will explain later) file you use excel.
File-> Open As (if available, otherwise just plain open).

Then you should get a big list with all the info for each flight in one continuous line.
That's where the comma separated values kick in. Each field is separated from the next by a designated character, sometimes a comma or a semicolon, or quotes or something.
In order to tell EXCEL that after each appearance of the designated character a new column starts so that then you will have a separate column for each field you need to:
Data -> Text to Columns

Then tick the option 'delimited' and choose the character used to 'delimit' the fields. (In EHM's case it's the semicolon ; )

Click OK and it should now look like a 'normal' spreadsheet.

Sorry, if it's a bit long but that's how you open a delimited (csv) file.

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

Thanks mate, I'll give that a go

Never did like spreadsheets much...!

[EHM-1465 Dominic]

I've got it working now, thanks for the help