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If you are a masochist that is...
Seriously, you cannot possibly spend a better $30 than to invest in FS Panel Studio if you plan to do any serious panel design.
For one thing, FSPS also has the ability to extract/reinsert bitmaps in compiled gauges, which allows some limited "customization" (for your own use!), and also has a fairly nice XML script editor allowing you to customize and/or create XML gauge scripts.
FS Panel Studio for me has some problems. A lot of gauges I've written have code but no graphics, and it doesn't understand them at all, so it ignores them so it throws up errors and doesn't write them to output cfg. And it has no coencept of the FSX Rotorcraft folder. So I am much more comfortable with manually editing the cfg by hand.
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What version are you using? Have you updated to the latest build?
Nov 15/2007 Build 20340 is the latest...
Also, I always include at least a 2x2 transparent bitmap in all C gauges or a 2x2 vector box in XML script "gauges" that're "code only." This eliminates the error of FSPS not "seeing them."
As you can see, I have absolutely no problem loading a panel from the FSX Rotorcraft folder...
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umm...
1: I dont have a credit card so my parents would have to order it for me (I'm only 15)
2: It's just for my own personal use, not anything really serious.
3:Where can I get "Gimp"?
PS...see what I would need it for under "M11 Executive Transport Jet" in the modelling forum----just check it out (its my first plane in gMax)
1: I dont have a credit card so my parents would have to order it for me (I'm only 15)
2: It's just for my own personal use, not anything really serious.
3:Where can I get "Gimp"?
PS...see what I would need it for under "M11 Executive Transport Jet" in the modelling forum----just check it out (its my first plane in gMax)
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At small corner stores and at Walmart, you can purchase Visa cash cards, then you can order things online, such as FSPS.
(I wish I had known that in my younger days when I didnt have a Visa for a while.... arrghh).
Make sure its a card where you can use it to purchase things online if you do get one.
Bill
(I wish I had known that in my younger days when I didnt have a Visa for a while.... arrghh).
Make sure its a card where you can use it to purchase things online if you do get one.
Bill
I know it can load them, but you have to browse, as it only seems to recognise the simobjects/aircraft folder by default.
I think it has problems with other C gauges I've written that include directsound or simconnect client code in them. But it's a while since I checked.
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Michael,
I do not believe you can edit GAU gauges. These are in C++ format and are also encrypted. If the gauges are in a CAB folder, you can unzip that (its basically like a zip file) and then go in and adjust,edit,change the XML gauges. But GAU format gauges are in C++ and locked.
Some, they say, have found ways into them, but its difficult.
There are tons of XML code though. Probably far more then C++. Some of the other airliners are in CAB folders and can be disected and changed to what you need, like the Boeing 747. (I am talking stock FS aircraft. If you were to ever possibly use a private party's gauge, make sure you get permission to use it. Or you could have a possey coming after you).
Bill
I do not believe you can edit GAU gauges. These are in C++ format and are also encrypted. If the gauges are in a CAB folder, you can unzip that (its basically like a zip file) and then go in and adjust,edit,change the XML gauges. But GAU format gauges are in C++ and locked.
Some, they say, have found ways into them, but its difficult.
There are tons of XML code though. Probably far more then C++. Some of the other airliners are in CAB folders and can be disected and changed to what you need, like the Boeing 747. (I am talking stock FS aircraft. If you were to ever possibly use a private party's gauge, make sure you get permission to use it.
Or you could have a possey coming after you).Bill
../\If you are a masochist that is...
Seriously, you cannot possibly spend a better $30 than to invest in FS Panel Studio if you plan to do any serious panel design.
For one thing, FSPS also has the ability to extract/reinsert bitmaps in compiled gauges, which allows some limited "customization" (for your own use!), and also has a fairly nice XML script editor allowing you to customize and/or create XML gauge scripts.
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You will not regret the purchase of FS Panel Studio. AFAIK, it's an absolute necessity for anyone who wants to do any serious panel design or redesign.