As P3D takes so long to start up on my system and invariably I need to reload a different scenery or time zone, I've written a small program that allows selection of a stored Flight, modifying time-of-day or season etc, saving the flight as a new name and launching P3D.
I intend to add further tweaking options in future.
Anyone who would like to beta test the program, drop me a PM or email.
Cheers
Keith

Hi Keith,

Well done! I got it working with a couple of tweaks. People may need to find comdlg32.ocx online and drop it into the same directory as the P3DLaunch.exe file to make it work and also tweak their P3DLaunch.ini file to be specific to their installation. I made the following changes to get it working on my system:

[Program]
Folder=C:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D
Exe=Prepar3D.exe
Flights=C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\Prepar3D Files

Nice to see what the development community is doing! Keep up the great work!

Regards,
John

Quote from Tatankamani on March 28, 2012, 11:34

@John, the programm is obviously working with and without comdlg32.ocx in the P3DLaunch directory. Why do I need comdlg32.ocx ?

Wouldn't work for me on my Win7 x64 box without it. If it works for you then that is great.

I tested and used the program.
Very useful!! A lot of minutes saved for each startup.
Can't understand why LM doesn't include somewhat similar in Prepar3d itself.
Confirm, the weather choosing combo seems not work.
If you have MS Visual Basic (or better Visual Studio) runtimes already installed in your system, you don't need comdlg32.ocx, otherwise, as John wrote, you can workaround this by copying (and may be registering?) comdlg32.ocx in the P3DLaunch directory.

Hi Colang,

No need to register, just put the ocx in the same directory. I try to test on a clean machine or VM without a development environment installed specifically to ensure that appropriate resources are there to make applications work. I have been caught a couple of times deploying installs that were compiled and then tested on the same development machine only to find out that the target machines didn't have critical components on them.....

John

Just what I've been looking for. Thanks for your effort and generosity!

BRILLIANT!

I had to reset the INI. At first it wasnt running. Im on WinXP 32bit Bootcamp.

Thanks Keith!

Its working now. I confused the folders. Excellent program!