Flight files

[Allen_Z]

Jim, of Jim's Flightsim page,

http://www.cat-tamer.com/flightsim/multiple_cfgs.html

says he can double click on a saved flight and start the sim.

[glow=yellow,2,300]I usually bypass the GUI (Select a flight, Create a flight, Flying Lessons, etc.) and double click one of my saved flights to start the sim[/glow]

I know one of the previous versions enabled that, but double clicking on a saved flight file in 2004, as far as I can tell, simply opens that file for editing or whatever.

What is Jim talking about there?

[pepper_airborne]

Maby he drops it on the FS2004.EXE? Telling Fightsimulator too execute the file.

[Allen_Z]

Howzbout that, I didn't know you could do that

[pepper_airborne]

hmm, he might have added a -somethinghere in the .exe . This is a command that windows will perform when the file is double clicked on, wouldnt know what it could be though.

[microlight]

Look in Windows Explorer under 'My Documents'/'Flight Simulator Files'.  Double click on any of your saved .flt files to start up as you described below.

[Allen_Z]

I went there, double clicked, and the file opened by wordpad

[Formula_1]

Hi

It seems wordpad must be associated with .FLT files. Maybe you could try removing the .FLT extension from the list in wordpad?
Double clicking the .FLT worked for me.

[garymbuska]

There is nothing mysterious about this at all. This is the way the windows operating system works.
Every file on your computer associates with a program so when you double click on a FLTpln file it will automatically use FS to open it since this is the program associated with this type of file. If you change the type of file it will no longer be associated with FS and therefore will not start FS. There is nothing extra added to the .EXE file 8-)

[dave3cu]

You just have to change the file association (open with).

Open Explorer and either:

1)Click on Tools>Folder Options>File Type tab. Scroll down and click on FLT. Click on Change and browse to and select FS9.exe. Click OK.

2)Right click on one of the .flt files. Hover on 'Open With...' click on Choose Program and browse to and select FS9.exe. Click OK.

In either case, put a check in '[x]Always use.........' before clicking ok.

Dave

[Allen_Z]

oK, thanks for helping this dullard out

[pepper_airborne]

You could ask him?

[Allen_Z]

I did, he said it doesn't work quite like that anymore, since he upgraded to IE7...

he doesn't know why, he's working on it

[pepper_airborne]

i doubt he is really bypassing it, since the splashscreen is just a placeholder too show that FS is loading, so you cant really remove it unsless you remove flightsimulator

[garymbuska]

you can bypass the opening screen by editing this line
SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=1
in your FS9cfg file just change the 1 to a 0 and yu will not see the opening screen 8-)