ESE SIDSTARS Section changes in 3.2

[Rob Nabieszko]

While testing our sector file in ES3.2, we came upon a new glitch.

 

In the Departure List, when a STAR is selected, we can no longer select a runway. The runway defaults to the first active runway and cannot be changed.

 

I think the glitch relates to the name of our SIDs in the SIDSTARs section of the ESE file. Previously, we named our SIDs using SIDNAME.TRANSITION, for example, "BETES1.ERI". However, in v3.2, it seems that the acceptable characters for a SID eliminated the period and most other nonalphanumeric characters. When we removed all nonalphanumeric characters, we were able to [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ign the runways normally.

 

Any chance we can get the period back in a future version? Removing the . makes the names harder to read quickly.

 

Not sure if this change was made intentionally or just a byproduct of some other chance.

 

Thanks for listening.

 

Rob Nabieszko

[Jonas Kuster]

We use a small "x" for SIDs including a transition to separate the two name parts. This is quite ok to read. I can understand that the period is no longer allowed as it has sometimes a powerful meaning in ES. It might have been removed to prevent unexpected commands.

Edited May 10, 2016 at 09:25 PM by Guest

[Gergely Csernak]

To be honest I do not see any change in the code between the two releases. When ES extracts the points from the route string it ignores all special characters including '.'.