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SceneryConfigEditor
v. 1.1.9
User Guide

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Andrew Thornton 2017-06-11
Table of Contents i

Table of Contents
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1. Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
2. About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
3. Initial Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4. Introductory Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. The List View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. The Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7. Group View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8. Actions Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9. Restore Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10. Localization and Internationalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11. Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12. Version History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
13. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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1 About 1

1 About
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1.1 What is the Scenery Config Editor?

It's a utility for editing your Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and Microsoft Flight Simulator X
scenery.cfg files.

1.2 Why is this better than using the FSX editor or other editors?
There are multiple new additional features included in this program, including the ability to create
groups, automatic detection of some errors, automatic fixing of other errors, abilities to add areas in
bulk, drag-and-drop functionality... and many more. Further, it's open source.

1.3 Does anyone else have anything to say?

This utility is designed to enable easier editing of your flightsim scenery configuration (.cfg) file.
It was developed to allow the grouping of scenery areas to enable your flightsim to run with only
the scenery areas you require for that particular flight. This will allow flightsim to allocate more
resources to running the program by minimising the amount of scenery enabled. It is hoped this will
also improve loading times, but this has not been fully tested.
The marker system allows easier identification of scenery's that have been installed incorrectly, and
improves the functionality of any editing. We hope you find this handy program useful.
Kev Smith BAW044

1.4 Open source, under what license?

This software is licensed under the GPL v2 with Classpath exception. You can find the source-code
and latest releases of this software at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor
Support, bug and feature request trackers can also be found there. New file are released at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/files

1.5 I really like this and want to give you some money
Really?! Thanks, you can donate some British Pounds or US Dollars to my paypal account here:
Donate

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2 Initial Setup
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It is probably advisable to make back-ups of your scenery.cfg files before using this tool. We believe
that this tool is safe and we have been using this tool ourselves, however, we make no claim that it is
perfect and accept no responsibility for damage to your FlightSimulator installation. Usual Warranty
disclaimers apply; see the Licence. (The “Save As” functionality can be used for backing up scenery
files.)
On first loading you should get the startup screen with warning box, as shown, press OK

Startup Screen

This will take you to the preferences dialogue where you should either select the the button
corresponding to required FSim (9/10) or browse to find the required directory.

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Preferences Dialog

If you use ORBX or FTXCentral - I would recommend you set the Automatically restore groups from
backup option.
There are a number of other options on this screen and if you are using a networked system you may
wish to set the filesystem aliases now. See the technical notes below. Otherwise leave them blank, and
keep the “Follow the NewScenery convention” option set.
When you then press OK on the preferences, the default scenery file will be loaded. The program will
load this file by default from now on.
All users must do the above procedure, after which you should be presented with a view similar to list
view shown below.

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List View

Assuming all appears as in the list view, if you're non-technical please go to the Introductory
Use section below.

2.1 Technical Notes

1. If you have set up for FS9 and now wish to use FSX, you should set this using the preferences
option from the edit menu and then use the “Open default scenery file” option on the file menu.
2. The “Follow the NewScenery convention” option should almost always be set. In this convention
when you open the default scenery file, it will be saved as NewScenery.cfg. This helps
Flight Simulator notice there is a change in scenery.cfg. You want this to happen. Just
be aware that when you open the default scenery.cfg when you save it will be saved as
NewScenery.cfg not scenery.cfg.
3. If you are using a Networked System, you may wish to use the Filesystem Aliases options. These
will allow you alias one directory to another; eg. If you have C:\A\Mapped\Folder mapped as
the network drive Y: then you should use this. If this is all gobbledegook just leave them blank.
4. The default directory looked at for FSX is %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\FSX. If this is
incorrect for you; you should set this manually. Through our testing, we have discovered that the
other FSX scenery.cfgs don't appear to be updated and exist as a basic configuration to use
in cases of disastrous scenery.cfg corruption. We believe that use of the NewScenery.cfg
convention protects against FSX having to use these files. Please get back to us if there are
problems.
5. The registry key looked for for FS9 is:

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HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Microsoft Games/Flight Simulator/9.0/Exe Path

(If you have changed this to not point to your FS9 installation this will not work)
The registry key looked for for FSX is:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Microsoft Games/Flight Simulator/10.0/SetupPath
For Windows 64 compatibility the WOW6432Node is also checked.

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3 Introductory Use
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Before you proceed, you should select the tab Group View which should appear similar to below.

This will contain a box titled Ungrouped and in brackets the number of Areas which have not been
allocated to groups and/or activated. It is now you will have to determine what methodology you are
going to use to define your groups, i.e. countries, continents, hemispheres or flight plans etc. If you
then select any number of these areas and click the “Add to group” button in the right-hand pane. You
will get a pop-up box with an editable drop-down box containing all previous groups and the option to
name a new group. (You can select multiple areas using ctrl-clicking, or shift-clicking.)
Ideally one should create a group containing all of the default scenery that is included in the basic
installation of FS (see the Group View section below on how to create the zzzbasic group.) This basic
group should then always be enabled. As you add more and more scenery, you should place these
in other groups, so that if the proverbial ctd occurs and you suspect scenery files are the culprit; All
you need to do is turn off all the groups except zzzbasic and reboot FS. If FS comes back, then start
reselecting groups until the CTD happens again. You then know which group of areas is at fault; so
turn off all but 1 area within that group restart FS and progressively re-enable areas until the fault
happens again.
Once you have selected which groups and scenery layers are enabled you can save your scenery.cfg
using the save option of the file menu or by pressing CTRL-S. Your FS scenery.cfg will then be
modified to reflect the changes you have made. That the changes have become operative, should be
reflected in that on boot-up FS will generate new scenery indexes. Verification can be checked by
selecting to view the scenery library on start up.
Remember no changes will take place irrespective of what you do in this program, until you click
Save on the file menu or press CTRL-S. So if you get in a tangle/ lose direction etc, just close the
program and then reboot it and start again.

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On Installation of new Scenery, just install as per software instructions, then run this program and
it should show the new scenery at the top of the list in the list view. You can then manipulate it as
above. You can also use the Add Area button on the list view to add the scenery directly. (Please note,
however, some installers do not use the NewScenery.cfg convention, it would be best to run Flight
Simulator before any installation to get Flight Simulator to recognise your latest changes.)

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4 The List View

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This view is set up so as to mirror the functionality of the FS9 scenery library editor. It has the same
tools as the editor, with the addition of the “Set Priority” button and double-click to edit functionality.
(Which both should have fairly obvious semantics!)
This view also has Drag & Drop functionality, sort by table column name functions, and multiple
selection functionality. Drag & Drop of a number of areas will set the priority of the dragged areas to
that of the dropped area using the same functionality as the “Set Priority” button; be warned that when
the table is not sorted by priority this will have a non-obvious result. “Set Priority” of multiple areas
will 'bunch' the areas up and gives them consecutive priority numbers. “Raise” and “Lower” will not
do this bunching but will raise/lower their priorities by one individually.
“Find” (from the Edit menu or CTRL-F) will highlight all found areas in red and report the total
number of found areas. “Find again” ( F3) will find the next found area.
You can add a coloured marker to an areas, using the marker colour on the Add/Edit Area dialog box.
These are just visual markers to help identify sceneries, and cannot currently be sorted on.
Finally, Areas are automatically checked for a number of possible errors. If there are any errors,
this will get shown to you by a red cross in the information section below the buttons. Should an
area have an error, a red warning triangle will appear in the column which where there is a problem,
and information explaining the error will be placed in the Errors column. The main errors that get
shown like this include: Areas which have non-unique titles, (Triangle appears in the title column),
Areas which have non-unique paths, (Triangle appears in the path column), and if you have the check
scenery directories exist option set, Areas where the directory the path relates to cannot be found.
(Triangle appears in the path column.)

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If you wish to find the ares which have errors quickly, you can scroll across to the Errors column and
click it. This will re-sort the table and move them to the top. (Clicking it a second time will send them
to the bottom.) You can also click the red cross icon in the information section, this will select all the
areas that have errors.
Remember: No action is saved until you save using the CTRL-S or choose the save option of the file
menu. If you are editing the default scenery scenery.cfg this save action will save as NewScenery.cfg
rather than scenery.cfg.

4.1 Technical Notes

1. Priority has the Flight Simulator meaning, i.e. (lower priority number => higher priority =>
higher layer number.)
2. In order to fix potential issues with your scenery.cfg file, the following are automatically fixed
when you select the List or Group View: Areas with duplicated layer values will have these
rewritten, and required areas are automatically set as active.

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5 The Text Editor

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If there is an error in the structure of your scenery file, or you just like seeing the raw insides of things
this is a syntax highlighted view of your scenery file.
Structural errors are highlighted in red. On the right pane there will be a go to next button which will
take you to the next structural error to fix.
Areas with duplicate Area numbers will have their number highlighted in bold red. Again a go to next
error button will show.
Similarly for Areas with duplicate Layer Numbers.
The minimum free area and layer numbers are listed in the right hand pane to help assist hand editing
of the file.

5.1 Technical Notes

1. The Editor expects a number of default values to be set. They are: Active, Required, Local,
Remote and X_Groups. Don't worry about the X_Groups bit, that is used by this editor to set the
groups functionality. If it is left empty, no groups will be assumed.
2. I would seriously recommend you do not change the area numbers of any currently used areas.
Should you wish to do this, delete the SCENERY.DAT files from the scenery directories. (Flight
simulator does not like you playing with its toys.)
3. The layer numbers are used to compute priority when you switch to the list tab view or group
view. They will all be rewritten to become contiguous after using these views to represent the
priorities set in those views. (Higher layer number => higher priority => lower priority number.)

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6 Group View
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Here is where the new functionality begins.

By default all scenery is ungrouped. You probably want to create a Basic Scenery group which
comprises of all fs initial base scenery. The simplest way to do this is to highlight all the basic scenery
using either SHIFT-clicks or CTRL-clicks to highlight multiple areas. Once you've selected them
click Add to Group. Call this group ZZZ_Basic_Scenery, this helps differentiate it from all other
groups. You would normally want this group enabled, so don't put any scenery in here that should not
be always on, and if you've missed some scenery out you can always either drag that in to the group or
use the add to group function again.
Looking at what is left, you may decide that you want to create groups for common flight plans or
just simply do groups by country. Sceneries can be added to multiple groups; I would recommend you
don't add any of the basic sceneries to any others though. Again, you can drag these sceneries into a
new group, or use the add to group button.
Once created, groups allow one to enable or disable all of the contained areas with clicks to the
group tickbox. Groups which are only partially enabled will have solid tickboxes; clicking on these
will enable all their areas (Ticked tickbox); clicking once more will disable all of the areas (Empty
tickbox.) It is not possible to disable required areas.
Similar to the List View above, you can search for sceneries using find, however, note that currently
group view does not search on path name. Markers are also shown for areas that have had one set.

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7 Actions Menu
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On the actions menu there are a few bulk functions.
The first of these is Generate from directory. This allows one to choose a directory and scan
it looking for scenery directories. If any are found, and they are not currently listed within your
scenery.cfg file they will be added at priority 1 within a new group. You should use this functionality
to search a common library directory for subdirectories containing sceneries. For example; if you
store your scenery within separate folders within the Addon Scenery folder this tool allows you search
for these. You can also use this to search the flight simulator folder itself.
Please note this will take a long time on large directory structures. Don't do this on the root folder of
C: !
Another action is the Normalize local paths action. This removes any reference to your flight
simulator directory within scenery config file. This is important if you are using a networked
setup with certain utilities. For example, if you have a scenery listed with the path “ C:\Flight
Simulator 9\Rabbits” and “ C:\Flight Simulator 9” is the flight sim directory this will be
normalized to just “ Rabbits”. (This has been a repeating issue...)
Expand Paths prefixes the flight simulator directory to all relative paths within the scenery
config file. In some ways it can be thought of as the reverse of normalize, however aliases are kept
unchanged.
Fix duplicate area numbers is a more technical action and one I would only recommend you use if
you delete SCENERY.DAT files too. I have provided this action to help fix very confused scenery.cfg
files where multiple areas have been given the same area number. It's not something that happens
often, but the clean up is complex enough that this is required.
Add defaults to areas – Only relevant for the Text editor. The list view and group view do this
automatically.
Delete DAT files Flight Simulator caches the contents of the scenery directories using these files.
Sometimes these caches become out-of-date and cause errors. It is unknown, but suspected, that these
files are somehow related to the Area Number in the scenery.cfg and it is recommended that if you
start changing area numbers you should delete these files. (Flight Simulator will rebuild deleted files
on start-up.)
Reset Area and Layer numbers and Reorder the file Some users have requested this function in
order to rebuild the .cfg so that Area and Layer Numbers match and are ordered in ascending order
within the file. Be aware that this function can have drastic effects if Flight Simulator is caching it's
indexes, and it is suspected that you should delete the SCENERY.DAT files if you run this. If at this
point, things do not turn out as expected, you will have to seek advice from other quarters. We cannot
offer technical support for an MSFS initiated routine. (In much earlier versions of this editor a similar
function was implemented, FS9 did not like that version at all. There were other bugs in that version
but, it made the programmer extremely cautious about changing area numbers. Please, please backup
your files if you want to use this! Until we know this is safe we cannot guarantee that FS will not
barf on this and replace your scenery.cfg with a blank default.)

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8 Restore Menu
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The restore menu is a new addition to editor. Early in the design of the editor it was decided to use
the scenery.cfg file to contain all the additional information about groups and color markers that
the editor generates. This was because there was no evidence that this harmed the flight simulator and
seemed to be the intention of the key=value scheme of the file, and because there was no evidence
that removing disabled sceneries from the file is an effective optimisation. All was well, however,
there are some popular for-profit tools and sceneries available that are removing keys that it doesn't
understand. I have tried to contact the developers of these tools to talk to them about this problem but
they have not responded. I have therefore decided to work around them.
There are number of functions provided on the restore menu, however it is worth noting what the
backup file is, and when it is created and updated. The backup is simply a copy of your last saved
scenery.cfg, however it will only be updated if you have saved and, either closed the editor, or opened
or reloaded the scenery file. This should prevent accidentally losing the backup information when you
are editing, but you should be aware that once you have reloaded or closed the editor you will lose
that old information.
The restore functions available are:
Restore Groups from Backup recovers the groups information from the backup file, which was the
initial requirement for this functionality. There are a number of options: Restore groups only for areas
that don't have groups listed, Restore the missing groups from the backup or simply overwrite the
groups data with that in the backup. You can also restrict the functionality to work on the selected
areas only.
Restore Deleted Areas from Backup will restore areas that are present in the backup but not in the
main file.
Overwrite Scenery from Backup will simply copy the backup back over the main file.

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9 Localization and Internationalization

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In this version, all of the strings in the UI have been externalized out of the source-code and in
to the scenery_config_editor.properties java properties file. This properties file can be
found in the sce folder of the lib\SceneryConfigEditor-$version.jar archive. In order to
provide translations for the interface all one needs to do is to add a copy of that file into that folder as
scenery_config_editor_LANGUAGECODE[_REGIONCODE].properties. One need not provide
translations for all the keys in the file, see scenery_config_editor_en_GB.properties.

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10 Preferences
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Preferences Dialog

The Preferences dialog allows the user to edit settings related to the behaviour of the editor.

1. The first setting is that of the Flight Simulator Directory. This can either be set by
typing in the path into the input box, using the browse button to find the directory
or using any of the buttons to look up the directory in the registry.
2. The location of the scenery.cfg file can be set by choosing a preset mode or
by selecting the User defined mode and manually setting this. The pre-defined
modes should be correct for most use-cases of this editor - if they are not please
get in contact with me regarding it.
3. The NewScenery convention option allows you to decide whether you wish
to save changes to the default scenery.cfg as NewScenery.cfg. This is a
controversial issue. If you use multiple installers for scenery you will find that
many installers will follow this convention and if you do not follow this convention
you risk corrupting your scenery.cfg.

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If you do not use the pre-defined modes for the location of scenery.cfg you may find that
NewScenery does not work for you. In this case ensure you have the correct location for your
scenery.cfg, and if you are sure that this is the case - please get in touch with me - I would
appreciate understanding the situations when this convention does not work.
4. Keep FSX-SE scenery.cfg in sync with FSX scenery.cfg is disabled unless FSX-
SE is installed in coExistence mode and the editor is in FSX or User Defined
mode. When this option is selected, the default scenery.cfg will replicated to the
FSX-SE scenery.cfg - with the addition that paths relative to the FSX directory
will be expanded making them make sense for FSX-SE. This will follow the
NewScenery convention if you have this set.
5. The option to check scenery directories exist will allow the editor to check that
directories referred to in the scenery.cfg exist. This may slow down the editor in
some situations and can therefore be turned off if unwanted.
6. Use last accepted path as default means that the editor will remember the last
directory you selected when using Browse or Add, and will present that as the
next default. You almost always want this option selected.
7. Save path across instances will allow the editor to remember the above path
when you reopen it after closing the editor, and if you have two instances of the
editor open they will share the same last default path.
8. Automatically restore groups from backup will allow the editor to restore
groups automatically if they have disappeared for whatever reason. If you use
FTXCentral or ORBX you will want to set this option.
9. Adjusting the maximum number of undos is possible with this setting.
10.Filesystem Aliases are helpful if you are using a networked system. If you have
C:\A\Mapped\Folder mapped as the network drive Y: then you should use this.

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11 Version History
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V1.1.9

• Charset detection was too aggresive in P3Dv4 mode - and was assuming
UTF16 incorrectly too much of the time.
V1.1.8
• Add support for Prepar3D v4 - including the change of file-encoding.
V1.1.7
• Fix auto restore groups so that the restore is not immediately undone.
V1.1.6
• Ensure that last run version is saved in the preferences, so that welcome screen
only runs once per version.
• Add support for Prepar3D v3.
• Fix bug in set priority code found Alhard Horstmann.
V1.1.5
• Change restore from backup preference to make this the default
• Remove terminal newlines and add a single paragraph between areas on
reorder.
• Fix problem with restore groups whereby terminal slashes are not matched.
• Ensure installer checks for administrator status.
V1.1.4

• Add mode to FSX-SE scenery in sync with FSX scenery.

• Add P3D and P3Dv2 detection.
• Add Expand Paths functionality.
• Add modes for FSX-SE Co-existence and detection.
• Add defaulting to last view used.
• Add Spanish and Catalan translations kindly provided by Josep Maria Ribas.
V1.1.3

• Hide OK dialog when saving from quit dialog.

• Allow command line choice of scenery config file. Now supports SimStarter.
• Ensure that unnamed files and uncreated files work.
V1.1.2

• Moved to use SWT 4.3.0.

• Add save and quit option to exit dialog box.
• Fix bug with DND of multiple directories not being actioned.
V1.1.1

• Ensure that you cannot create a group with an empty name and ensure they are
always trimmed.

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• Added a set priority box to the edit area dialog

• Created Restore menu to workaround issues with FTX Central.
• Workaround for windows 7 expand notification not being noticed.
• Bug-fix for reported widget is disposed on generation.
• Double-check remove/add area to group is done correctly in rename group
actions. (Possible fix for some IllegalArgumentExceptions.)
• Ensure that no rename groups occur for null named groups.
• Remember window size and position.
• Remember last accepted browsed path.
• Moved to use SWT 3.7.1.
V1.1

• Add Undo/Redo buttons to the tabs.

• Make the initial class finder a little more robust, it used to rely on the working
directory being set correctly. It will now use the location of the initial class to help
it find the libraries.
• Remember selections across re-sorts.
• Make errors icon clickable to select the areas with errors.
• Remember selections across tab changes.
• Change the titlebar to make users aware changes have been made to the file
that still need saving.
• Ask if it safe to close only if there are changes to the file.
• Add preference to set the maximum number of undos remembered.
• Users can now undo the automatic fixes that the editor makes when it first loads
up.
• Undo-Redo functionality. Major work to add undo-redo to the editor to every
action that can be undone.
• Create plaintext manual form.
• Minor structural changes internally.
V1.0.8

• Bug fix to recognise non-canonically titled area blocks; eg. [aReA.xxx] instead of
[Area.xxx].
• Added option to turn off automatic checking of the existence of scenery
directories as can be quite slow.
• Move to SWT 3.7 because SWT 3.5.2 is at least two years out-of-date.
V1.0.7

• Bug fix to reset the colors on find in GroupTreeTabView.

• Make empty X_Groups, Remote etc. key=value sections disappear.
• Bug fix for exception on cancel of DND generation.

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• Bug fix for NPE on reorder sceneries.

• Bug fix for HED version reporting.
• Make the info group internationalizable.
V1.0.6
• Moved Error notification in to the sidebar.
• Improve exception handler to handle non-fatal exceptions.
• Add detection of non-existence of area directories to errors.
• Add auto-uninstall feature.
• Add version verification to uncaught errors and about dialog.
• Fix race condition causing NullPointerException in generation dialog.
• Fixed scenery generation to report the correct directory.
• Default Find for listview changed to suggest title for selected area.
V1.0.5
• Add multiple enable/disable through checkboxes in list and group view.
• Add error column and icon for duplicated area titles, paths, and numbers.
• Rename “Area Name” in text editor to “Area Number”.
• Fix bug with delete areas.
V1.0.4
• Reset Area and Layer Numbers and Reorder function added.
• Areas without X_Groups and X_Color will finally not have these set. I apologise
for cluttering up your scenery.cfg unnecessarily.
• Sceneries that are marked Required can no longer be set Inactive using the list
or group view.
• Sceneries will be automatically marked Active if they are marked Required.
• Localization now supported.
• Fixed a bug with the ungrouped group remaining unticked even all areas are
Active.
• Created functionality to delete the scenery.dat files.
• Create initial warning box for files with errors.
• Fix bug with automatically generated areas where by they were named without
enough preceding 0s.
• Added a progress dialog to generate scenery to allow one to cancel a long
generation and to show progress.
• Move to a simpler installer procedure without detectjvm – use lib32, lib64 and lib
directories and export the scenery config editor jar into lib.
• Renamed SWT jars to make them more obvious in the lib directories.
• Fix bug with repeated find when there is uppercase in the original find.
V1.0.3

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• Close hot-key is now CTRL-Q, to allow CTRL-X for “Cut”.

• Setup will now report version in the the title bar.
• Confirm quit box added.
• Colour Markers introduced.
• Group Expansion will be remembered when flicking between tabs.
• Open and Save as will default to looking in the correct place for FSX.
• Save as will no longer report a failed to save “null” when save is cancelled.
• Generate and Add Area will default to FlightSimulator directory on browse.
V1.0.2

• Created an installer using Nullsoft Installer System.

• Preferences will detect a change of default scenery filename.
• Flight Simulator X default scenery location now supported.
• Option to set own location of default scenery.
V1.0.1

• Fix Nullpointer exception on initial open.

• Fix FSX registry look up.
V1.0.0

• Initial release.

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With many thanks to:

BAW044 Kevin Smith British Airways Virtual

BAW303 Craig Sells British Airways Virtual
CXA002 Paul Mercier Canadian Express VA

For all their help and assistance.

Also many thanks to Mark Wolpert and Josep Maria Ribas for their help.
Andrew Thornton & BAW674 John Thornton

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