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Missing online chat window

Post by :FI:Macca » Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:02 pm

Ok

Yesterday Macca launche PF and wanted to play online. So I entered the spits vs 109s server. Everything ok.

I press "`" key to type in "Hello"

I type it in ,choose "ALL" and press enter.

And I do not see the upper red/white/blue texts.

What the.....?

I played with the chat window ,moved it with mouse, enlarged and shrinked :), no joy....

Any ideas?

Everything, but reinstalling Il2.

It's been running for more then a year flawlesslly.....

Thx for any help, lads.

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conf.ini

Post by :FI:Genosse » Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:34 pm

That´s the file you´ve to look for in your IL-2 main folder. Open it and look for following lines:
[chat]
region=(dx=0.8648437,dy=0.12916666,x=0.0,y=0.0)
(...)
It should be the first line ... just take my coordinates for the chat window by copying and pasting them ...

I hope this will work then ... ;)
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Post by :FI:Macca » Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:00 pm

Edited
thx Gen, but it didn't help!
is now
thx Gen, it works, silly me didn't save the conf file....


Thanks mate!

S!

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Rgrt, m8!

Post by :FI:Genosse » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:06 pm

You´re welcome, Maciej!

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Post by :FI:TacticalS! » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:21 pm

Great stuff guys!

This is why grandma always told us, "Boys always make a backup of your game and user configuration files."

It has saved me more than once. ;)

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Post by :FI:Macca » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:31 pm

Did your grandma play copmputer games?:)

If yes, which games?

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Post by :FI:Heloego » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:02 am

...Old ones. :lol:
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Post by :FI:ZekeMan » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:03 pm

Gen, I noticed the same phenomena...I just cut and paste that line in your message and everything is honky dory? What the hell made that line go away in the first place?

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Post by :FI:Genosse » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:09 pm

:FI:ZekeMan wrote:Gen, I noticed the same phenomena...I just cut and paste that line in your message and everything is honky dory? What the hell made that line go away in the first place?

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Hey, Z!

It should work, mate! But I still dunno why it disappeared inyour game ... :-k
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Post by :FI:ZekeMan » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:29 am

Gen, I got it back using your deal, but the text is HUGE now. How the heck do I get it small again?

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Post by :FI:Heloego » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:00 am

Sit further away from the PC. ;)
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Post by :FI:Gurberly » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:04 am

The chat window box is user chanagable/sizeable using mouse "click & drag" (hence co-ordinates are held in the config file). In the past I have accidentily dragged it to nothing especially when using the Normandy maps and trying to select the most northerly airfields.

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Post by :FI:ZekeMan » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:08 am

Well that just sounds too damn easy. Thank you Sir Gurb.

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