Editing the Clipboard "Checklist"
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I was really glad to see an editable on-board interactive clipboard.
I spent some time with snipping and editing images from a Flight Handbook I have (mostly limitation tables and thrust index tables).
The description in the F28_checklist_list.ini is misleading.
First of all the volume of twenty pages/images is somewhat a lie, because the Paper_checklist_layout.png seems to be an image and counts to the maximum number of images. Second, the index page (Paper_checklist_1.png) is not optional, can not be replaced. That leaves us with a total amount of 18 images we can have.
I managed to get together and organise 18 images I wanted to display on the clipboard, but with the 20th entry the airplane has issues, not initializing fully, like engines running when starting a fly at a ramp/gate in cold and dark state, EFB is frozen in a black screen state after selecting Aircraft icon, most of the switches doesn't do anything.
When I only have 19 entries the plane seems to work as it should except that the last four pages don't load. Their title show up on the index page, but clicking on either of them does not load the corresponding page/image. Also cycling thru the pages loops back to index page after the 15th page.
Tried to start from scratch in developer mode and reload the aircraft after an entry was added. Clipboard failed to load both the page names on the Index page and the linked pages after the 6th entry for some reason, multiple times, didn't matter what was the source image or the name of the page.
Strangely enough, after reverting back to the original 20-19 images I selected and adding the entries to the .ini file the clipboard worked to the extent stated previously (w/ 20 entries plane not working properly, w/ 19 entries working but not loading pages above page 16, however page titles showed up on index page).
Something is definitely not working right here. For now I restored the default state of the ...\Checklist folder, because I know enough about softwares to not risk any conflicts that might happen if I were to use my custom images with limited number of pages, limit being somewhere between 5-15 (not counting the index page).
Please Just Flight, look into this issue, because having some useful tables on the clipboard reduces the ALT+TAB'ing on PC, app siwtching on my tablet and scrolling back and forth in the FLIGHT HANDBOOK looking up data which really interupts the flow of carrying out checklists and procedures. I was really happy when I saw the Customizable Clipboard as a feature.
Otherwise the F28 is a great product and thank you for your continued work on it.
Best Wishes.
