RWC oblivious about settings

[daemotron]

Hello Maxx-XP team,

I'm running XP 10.51 with SMP 4.0.1 and RWC 1.1, using NOAA as METAR source. Before I used SMP 3.3.2 with RWC 1.0 and NOAA. After upgrading, RWC loses the "always" setting when closing XP: 

So after launching XP, I always have to set it back to "always":

After having done that, it stays in this position until I close XP - then the setting is lost again...

Any idea what could cause this? Could it be linked to NOAA?

Cheers
Jesco

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[sundog]

This probably means you have some sort of file permission issue preventing SMP or RWC from writing its settings to the resources/plugins/silverlining/settings.dat file.

Try running X-Plane with administrator privileges.

[daemotron]

Tried it without success  I also checked file permissions, and it's ok also for "normal" mode. SMP itself btw. does not lose settings, it's only RWC...

[sundog]

The RWC settings are stored in the same file as SMP's settings. Perhaps the file is corrupt somehow. Try deleting it, which will revert to default settings and force SMP to recreate the file from scratch - it's under resources/plugins/silverlining/settings.dat

 

 

[daemotron]

Thanks, I got it now. Here's what I did: As advised, I deleted the settings.dat (actually I only moved it to a location outside of the XP directory structure). I launched XP, and first thing I did was changing the RWC setting. However this did not create a new settings.dat file (don't know if it's intended to do so or not), so next I tweaked SMP itself back into my own settings. When hitting "Apply", the settings.dat file was created. I tried later on, but switching RWC settings didn't change the last modified date of the file. However, once I hit "Apply" in the SMP settings dialog itself, RWC settings seem to get recorded they way they're currently set.

[sundog]

Hm, it should be automatically saving all of those settings when you close X-Plane. For our next release, I'll make it do a save whenever you close the RWC or precipitation dialog boxes as well, just to be safe.