Ben Russell

Can you provide more info about your Mac? OS version, etc? The error you're seeing is strange. X-Plane is failing to translate the folder names its providing to Gizmo. Please attach your Log.txt file to your next post.

Chef, Don't.

VR: Still only 2% of the market. http://dashboard.x-plane.com/ Maximum effort for minimum market share is good way to waste time.

Gizmo only runs under Mac or Windows X-Plane. If you use the windows installer to grab the files and then start Linux X-Plane, Gizmo will never have run. You should be fine.

http://forums.x-pilot.com/forums/topic/16868-catalina-os-for-macs-any-problems/?tab=comments#comment-144367

Looks like Gizmo crashed.. Is this a 100% repeatable bug or a random occurence?

X-Plane doesn't have memory protection between plugins. It is like using Windows 3.x or Mac OS Classic in this regard. If you look into the history of these OS's it was very common for bugs and system crashes to occur because there was no memory protection and a fault in one app could overwrite the memory of another leading to undefined behaviour. This is no longer an issue with a modern OS however X-Plane and its plugin sub-system is NOT a modern OS and has no memory protection by default.

By "white Gizmo popup" I assume you mean the license window? Eg: It puzzles me that a bug of this sort exists as the entire Lua Virtual Machine is reset frequently (aircraft reload, license refresh events, etc) to ensure systems integrity. The only real ties to X-Plane should be the OBJ8 animation datarefs that the aircraft model and manipulators rely on, the rest of the Lua systems code can be reloaded entirely by using the Gizmo reboot button. (Which the license system does for you anyway after a refresh..)

What happens if you mouse click the CDU button and hold the mouse down for 1 second? I would expect the same result. You probably need to "release" the CDU button by writing the 0 after a shorter interval. This will probably need to be 1 frame. I don't know how you would do that in FWL script.

Do you have xpuipc installed? Please attach a copy of log.txt from the xp folder to make debug easier for us..

Start by removing this: Loaded: C:\Users/spencer/Documents/X-Plane 11/Resources/plugins/projectFLY/win_x64/projectFLY.xpl (mettar.projectfly.bridge).

As a guess, you probably have an anti virus program stopping the registration process from completing properly. Will need to see GizmoLog.txt to be sure. It contains the exact error message.

1. The name and date of registration for the machine are provided as a reference. If in doubt, it's probably safest to choose the oldest machine in the list. 2. Occasionally Windows Update will cause the same hardware to be seen as a new machine, see point 1 re: dates. 3. Generally multiple installs of X-Plane on the same system are seen as the same Hardware-ID. With those three rules in mind you should be perfectly safe to have another copy of your products on the same hardware.

Software that is licensed to use is not the exception, it is the default. It is everywhere. It would be difficult to find an exception. You didn't just give your friend an installer or a disc/memory stick. You furnished them with the username and password that grants them access to what you self describe as being a large number of purchases from X-Aviation over the years. Playing the naive card and the VP of engineering card at the same time doesn't serve you well either. You should know better on all counts. Cameron is the only one who can help you with licensing issues. He has access to all the customer and purchase records. I just build widgets.

If your virus scanner is causing a kernel panic I'd get a refund on it. That's a seriously shoddy bug.

If you're not having any issues with the official plugin you don't need this one. I don't keep track of where they're at. I fixed a problem we were having in September 2018.

Two people helping isn't no one. Just because you don't like the answers or that it takes time to figure out doesn't mean you have to be rude.

Some time between now and the heat death of the universe.

Your anti virus is blocking gizmo from contacting the license server via http.

Does anything different happen if you use the Saab scroll wheel manipulator -before- you attempt to use the RXP product? The error message is indicative of state-desynch inside the Saab code. I'm wondering if using the manip at least once will put it into a safer state.

World Peace with xEnviro 1.1 ... if it's ever released. Try turning off the IXEG vortices in the IXEG graphics preferences. It's officially not the fault of Gizmo or xE... it was some weird bug that has been resolved that will probably go away if xE 1.1 ever ships. (I have a Direct Message from Andrey Sheyback, developer of xE - stating the above. Blame has been thrown around from one party to the other for literally years now. They have it resolved, but I can't release their products for them so we're all stuck in this boat together.)

Gizmo is not available for Linux.

It's probably your anti virus software.

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/44034-visual-enhancement-mod-les-saab-340/