Request to F-16C Devs - please use distinct names for DED Display items

[Matchstick]

Hi,

 

I'm currently doing work adding the DED display to the DCS-BIOS module and it's working but I'd like to request that devs working on the module try to ensure they use unique names for different fields especially ones that appear in different places on the display.

 

All the info defining what's displayed on the DED and where is held in then .lua files under

\mods\aircraft\F-16C\Scripts\Displays\Common\indicator\DED\Pages

 

The main page is defined by CNI.lua and that contains the item

addText("WPT IncDecSymbol",			"a",	{19, 0}, nil, nil, {{"DED_CNI_IncDecSymbolPos", 0}})

which is the up/down arrow and will be shown on line 1 in postion 20 (in programming half the code has lists begin at 0 and the other half has them begin at 1 - this code looks to be the former)

 

However the ALOW page contains

addText("WPT IncDecSymbol",			"a",			{23, 0}, nil, nil, {{"DED_CNI_IncDecSymbolPos", 0}})

and the CMDS_BINGO page contains

addText("WPT IncDecSymbol",			"a",			{23, 0})

 

Both of which display the same symbol on line 1 but at a different position and since there doesn't look to be obvious metadata indicating which page is being displayed it's getting tricky to work out which version of the item is the correct one to display.

 

There are also other items that share names on the COM, IFF & ALOW pages so anything that help remove these duplicates names and avoid them in the future would be a big help/

 

This is a REALLY small hill to die on I know but once complete the DED will contain thousands of possible data items so anything that makes itv

Edited October 24, 2019 by Matchstick

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Matchstick

 

I have shown this to the dev team.

 

Thanks