I seem to lose all my settings after using the A B C D buttons Clock is incorrect warning No flight route database Check log file directory is writeable Error code 183 Error messages with numbers around 10000 Error messages when closing Plane Plotter after configuring MLat

I seem to lose all my settings after using the A B C D buttons

From a Yahoo group posting by Bev: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planeplotter/message/23959

The ABCD buttons are very powerful but are frequently misunderstood and misused.  They are like Windows Restore points.  They say "Take all my settings back to the way they were when the corresponding settings were saved."   They allow you to make completely different configurations available at the click of a button (eg acting as the source in a peer-to-peer pair or acting as the destination in such a pair).  Somewhere in the history of PP, someone thought they were good for selecting alternative charts and this misapprehension has lingered over the years. 

If you want one click access to a lot of different charts, use the Quick Chart buttons ((re)defined with one click on the toolbar and retrieved with one click on the toolbar and they remember your zoom and drag offets too).  Avoid the ABC buttons unless you really need two or more radically different configurations of the whole PP activity and if you are sure that you know what you are doing.

David Taylor suggests that you remove the A B C D buttons unless you are completely sure what they do, and sure that you really need them:  The Plane Help says:  You can delete some of the toolbar buttons by clicking on them, while holding down the SHIFT button.  Some important buttons cannot be deleted by this method.  You can restore all buttons to the toolbar by clicking on the '>' symbol at the rightmost extremity of the toolbar

Clock is incorrect warning

"I keep getting an annoying warning that my PC clock is wrong each time I open Plane Plotter, but there is nothing wrong with my PC clock settings."  Your clock is not close enough to correct time, please see this page.

No flight route database Check log file directory is writeable

1. Make sure that Options..Directories..Log files points to a real place that PP can write to.  If you use Windows Vista, you need to choose a path outside of C:\Program files\ because Vista stops you writing there.
2. If there is a file in there called "flightroute.sqb" in there, with zero length, close and exit PP and then delete it.  (Do not delete it if it is more than zero length.)  PP will automatically create a new one with the proper formatting next time it starts.  There is nothing you need to enable for that to happen.

Reference: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planeplotter/message/8698

Error code 183

1. Please check your Options..I/O settings dialog.
2. Have you enabled the UDP/IP output - most probably with an IP address and/or port that did not exist or was not open.
3. Disable (uncheck) UDP/IP output unless you know what it is for, and are actually using it.

Reference: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planeplotter/message/7388

Error messages with numbers around 10000

Error messages with numbers such as 10048 are Winsock error messages.  Winsock is a piece of software in Windows which allows the use of a "sockets" interface to access network functions, in a similar way to the "sockets" interface in other programming languages, makking it easier to port software to Windows.  There is information on that particular error here:

  http://www.winsock-error.com/10048.aspx

which tells you that 10048 means that a port is already in use, so you should only try to run one program at a time accessing a particular port.  With Windows Task Manager, see whether you have a partially started Plane Plotter, and kill it if so.  Logging out and back in may also be required so release the port for use.

For a full list of Winsock error codes - numbers in the 10000 range, see:

  http://www.winsock-error.com/default.aspx

Error messages when closing Plane Plotter after configuring MLat

Q: Whenever I close Plane Plotter I get the error 'Exception ESocketError in module ftd2xx.dll at 0005153B' and then separately from Basestation 'Asynchronous socket error 10053' and Basestation stops.

A: After installing the MLat software, you need to close BaseStation before closing Plane Plotter.