The f-14b used to disable the fuel menu item, because it uses a special
one. It used to be the first menu item on the Equipment menu, maybe
that's why the map got disabled instead.
> Oh, this actually shows a larger problem. Obviously it isn't too
> uncommon for aircraft to disable or override specific menu items -
> mainly affects menu items for the radio stack and autopilot.
> Unfortunately all of this is done using fixed menu item positions -
> e.g. 5th menu, 3rd item... So any change of the menu item ordering
> currently breaks lots of planes. And obviously the recent menubar
> overhaul has done just that.
> We'll need to adapt all the aircraft using such hacks to the changed
> menu structure. And might need to think about a better solution to
> avoid future problems of this kind.
> I did a quick grep to find potentially affected aircraft (couldn't
> verify if their menus are all broken now, but that's the ones
> overriding or disabling specific menu items using fixed positions):
>
> 717
> 737-300
> 737NG600
> 737NG700
> 737NG800
> 737NG900
> 747-400
> 757-200
> 777-200
> A320-family
> A380
> Aerostar-700
> b1900d
> Citation-Bravo
> CitationX>
> CRJ-200
> CRJ-900
> f16
> f-14b
> fokker100
> MiG-15
> VMX22-Osprey
>
> => All the aircraft above override the radio and/or autopilot dialogs.
> Except for the MiG15, which just disables one dialog (like the f14).
>
> So, what do we do? Adapt all the aircraft above - or revert the menu
> item ordering?
>
> cheers,
> Thorsten
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:37 PM, ThorstenB <bre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The F14 disables the first menu item from the 5th menu....
> >
> > ext_stores.nas => setprop("sim/menubar/default/menu[5]/item[0]/enabled", 0);
> >
> > Not sure which menu item originally was at this location.
> > Quite bad. Harded coded hacks like this just always break... ;)
> >
> > cheers,
> > Thorsten
>
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