One of the priorities of the APM team is to continue to find new ways to make it easier to use. The Mission Planner is a big part of that, with it's one-click firmware loading, but author Michael Oborne has now done it again with a great installation utility (64-bit Windows here, 32-bit here) that not only installs the Mission Planner, but also detects which APM you have and installs the right driver for it. That's like five manual steps eliminated!
Great work, Michael!
(As always, it will also check for updates at startup and download the latest version)
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Just hover over the icon in the taskbar and right click, then press maximize and then drag to a new size.
Richard, delete the config.xml file from the planner directory, this will restore default settings
Richard: Try resizing it (drag a side of the window). That should cure the problem.
Agreed with Andke -
Why though would you want to continue downloading the zip though if it auto updates the individual files? For now, I see no reason why I would want to download and install the msi. Having a C:\MP is simple :)
Please don't stop publishing .zip until we know it it installs using Mono (on Linux etc), and makes proper shortcuts etc..
The microsoft "next,next,next,finish" installer ritual Is often more an annoyance than helping,. and unless it'll get everything right, including shortcuts, it's simply easier for a user to unpack and run it. (because it's even easier to find the executable)
So thanks for doing this - but please keep .zip for now.
Micheal O is a programming GOD!!! The MP in all it's forms is a work of programming art and tech. I'm a really big fan
TOM
Taylor: Have you followed the advice in the Troubleshooting section? The AR8000 is notoriously finicky.
Taylor: Thanks for the update -- glad it's resolved!
Taylor: That's really weird. And you've got the APM board plugged in when the Mission Planner starts?
Taylor: if the com port doesn't show up in the drop down menu (mine, which happens to be 29, is shown below), then the driver wasn't installed right. Are you sure it's listed in your Windows Control Panel as a Com port?
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