IFEI string buffer left-aligned (merged from dcs-bios/dcs-bios)

[dcs-skunkworks]

IFEI string buffer left-aligned (merged from dcs-bios/dcs-bios)

[WarLord211]

please name the Plane. i dont know all planes well.

[charliefoxtwo]

Sorry! This is the F/A-18C Hornet. The strings in this case are the ones displayed on the IFEI (Integrated Fuel & Engine Indicator).

[WarLord211]

i cant format strings. i can give them a space of the expected amount of numbers and more i cant do. (as far as i find in the documentations) sorry

[charliefoxtwo]

Is it possible to just modify (or duplicate) the coerce_nil_to_string method to add some additional string processing (basically, it should just be a matter of finding the index of the first space character, then moving the substring of spaces to the beginning of the string)?

Here's a pretty rudimentary example of a method that could be called

local function move_spaces(value)
    local start = string.find(value, " ")
    if (start == nil) then return value end
    return string.sub(value, start) .. string.sub(value, 1, start - 1)
end

Many of the strings on the IFEI already call that coerce_nil_to_string method so it seems like you could wrap that and send the result to move_spaces or something right?

[WarLord211]

maybe. but thats a little beyond my knowledge. if you got this to work, i will integrade it.

[charliefoxtwo]

Cool, I'll take a look and report back. Feel free to assign this issue to me.

[WarLord211]

any News?

[charliefoxtwo]

Nothing yet - it's still on my todo list.