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How on earth can someone bake a metar URL in an exe? What if the site changes it's structure? Go and make a new fg release? This is such a beginners mistake!

There is now an issue with the used URL:
http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observ ... s/LFLP.TXT

I can get at the same with:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observati ... s/LFLP.TXT

But i can not change it in the exe. This URL should have been in a configuration file. Data belongs outside executable binaries. The latter should only contain logic. Should i really take people that do not know how to adhere to simple coding principles as serious programmers?

To the brilliant and ever superior core developers: Please make a new fg release with the working metar URL in it, within an hour or so. Or better: A release with executables cleared from data.

Kind regards, Vincent

seems to be working right now, at least with the URL.
Have not checked FG.
But yes, there was no METAR.

A METAR transferred as binary? Makes no sense to me...

Regardless of it works right now.

No, the url where fg gets metar from is compiled into a binary of fg. A url is data, and belongs in a config file or a database.

Kind regards, Vincent

I don't think that is right. It can't be binary.

Really stupid if they did that.

Josh

Well, they did just that. The url is baked into my fgfs.exe, instead of being in a settings file where data should be.

Kind regards, Vincent

Yup. no weather for me.

Fuck

Ok, i hex-edited my fgfs.exe file, as per:

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=30136#p291851

It works for now. Have to fly a bit more with it. Anyone who fears hex-editing can download my fgfs.exe.

Be aware that it is:
1) A windows exe
2) Fg version 2016.1.1, 2016.1.2 or 2016.2.1

If you do not match that, you do not need to try.

2016.1.1 http://iveze.nl/data/fgfs1.zip
2016.1.2 http://iveze.nl/data/fgfs12.zip
2016.2.1 http://iveze.nl/data/fgfs.zip

Kind regards, Vincent

interesting alternative. I'm on linux, and with a git version. I'll pull and recompile... and then see where I end up.

I add my voice to KL666 position that the METAR URL should be in plain text over a config file. PERIOD.
This binary thing is a bit of a brain-crack.

IH-COL

I'll compile one for 2016.1.2 on Vindows.