Installing K Bedford's Mission Editor

[Parker]

Hi Guys
I'm a newbie so please forgive. I downloaded Keith Bedford's ME and am confused by installation instructions : specifically

Most of whats written under the "Introduction" heading

The sentence
"Copy the supplied CfsMe.exe, Cfsme.dll, vbasm.dll and CfsMe.ini files to a directory in your path. "

I have absolutely no idea what my path or anybody else's path is!!!!

Infact everything else under the Installation heading is gobble-de-gook to me also

I also followed his link to get the VBRUN300.DLL thing but was lost when I got there!!!

Sorry for being thick but I would really like to create missions in CFS1. Has anybody invented a ME thats easy to install for technophobes like me.

Cheers
Rob

[Hagar]

Hi Rob

It's been a while since I used it. I think Cfsme will run from any location. I keep all my little utilities in a folder I created on my C: drive named FS Utilities. To run it double-click on CFSME.EXE. I usually create shortcuts for the EXE file of any utilities I use a lot & paste them to my desktop.

You can find VBRUN300.DLL posted all over the web. I'm not sure if it's posted here at SimV. Try this. http://www.xmission.com/~psneeley/Shareware/VB300.htm
First one that showed up on Google. I checked the link is OK.

[Dan]

Hi Rob... I fly FS2002 Pro now, but I flew 3 years on CFS1. Great, init! The reason that you can't get the *.dll is that all of Keith's pages are totaly dead. I can't remeber it totally myself, but I should imagine 'your path' is any place on your hard drive. Tyr that. I didn't need the .dll as I have VB6 Pro on my machine, but you can get all the vb.dll from here. He mentions the M$ editor:- I never was very hot on missions and I had much more sucess with that, it should still be on Microsft's site. The docs are very good.
Hope i help, Dan

[Parker]

Thanx for replies. But I still have a situation here. My situation now is this. I can run the mission editor( I found the VBrun file ) and I created the tutorial mission(called "firstMission.mis") but when I try to open it again in the editor I get a "Path not found" error message.

I have the ME installed inside a folder called MISSION EDITOR on my C drive

CFS is installed in the default folders ie
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator


I edited the cfsMe.ini file to read
cfsdir=c:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\
Which I believe is the way to set my path????

When I run the ME to edit "firstMission.mis" and click the Import Mission button I paste this address into the textbox( it asks for an absolute path which I think this is!!!)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\missions\firstMission.mis

I get this error message
"Path not found"

Any ideas for me please. Do I need to run the ME from a different folder or make changes to the line in the cfsMe.ini file about my path whatsit. Or do I set my path elsewhere or something. Sorry I'm pretty confused still about this path thing. Thanks for any help

Cheers
Rob

Ps I might have some questions about Cor Dikland's editor about .OCX files equally confusing.

[Hagar]

See if this helps. http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/keith.bedford/cfs/popratt/tut.htm

Another tip is to associate the MIS file extension with your mission editor, CfsMe or whatever. Then a double-click on any MIS file will open it in the desired editor.

[Hagar]

I have the ME installed inside a folder called MISSION EDITOR on my C drive

CFS is installed in the default folders ie
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator

I edited the cfsMe.ini file to read
cfsdir=c:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\
Which I believe is the way to set my path????

When I run the ME to edit "firstMission.mis" and click the Import Mission button I paste this address into the textbox( it asks for an absolute path which I think this is!!!)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\missions\firstMission.mis

I get this error message
"Path not found"

Any ideas for me please. Do I need to run the ME from a different folder or make changes to the line in the cfsMe.ini file about my path whatsit. Or do I set my path elsewhere or something. Sorry I'm pretty confused still about this path thing. Thanks for any help

Rob. I just checked this out to refresh my memory. My own CFS1 is installed to the default location. Copy this path & paste it into your CFSME.INI.
cfsdir=c:\program files\microsoft games\Combat Flight Simulator\missions

This is what you should see when you run CfsMe.


The installed missions should all be listed. Select one & use the buttons on the left to edit them.

[Parker]

Cheers guys.
I can see now that I was using the program incorrectly ie I was clicking the Import Mission button when I wanted to edit a mission rather than just opening the mission folder to load a mission!!!!! presumably the Import Mission button is used to get missions from the web. My HCI failure!!!.Problem totally sorted.

BTW in a roundabout way I started to use the mission builder in CFS2 to modify a CFS1 mission then open the .mis file in Notepad and modify the original CFS1 file in notepad with the info provided but changing the format, lo and behold it works.Talk about trial and error!.

I'm new to your forum and finding it really helpful

Anyway thanks again
Rob

[Dan]

Great to here it's sorted...
Dan