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.gau file and bitmaps

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Hello -

I've gotten my project finished, loaded up the gauge in FS Panel studio (and also manually in the panel.cfg) , placed all the mini-gauges where I want them, start up flight sim, voila - new gauges right where I put them.

I took the .gau file and put it online for others to download, but they see no gauges. FSPS shows the rectangle (pink) where the mini-gauges should be but the bitmaps don't show and it complains that "error gauge does not exist in this file" , FS9 gets an error "Flight Simulator is not able to load aircraft or software". I thought that the bitmaps would be contained within the .gau file? Here's a small snippet of the various files for my "underway" switch... What have I done wrong?

main_gauge.c
#define GAUGE_NAME "underway_switch_up\0"
#define GAUGEHDR_VAR_NAME gaugehdr_underway_switch_up
#define GAUGE_W 100
#include "underway_switch_up.c"

in the main_gauge.rc file:
PANEL_UNDERWAY_SW_ON BITMAP DISCARDABLE "bitmaps\\underway_switch_on.bmp"

in the main_gauge.h file:
#define PANEL_UNDERWAY_SW_ON 0x200B
#define PANEL_UNDERWAY_SW_OFF 0x200C
 
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n4gix

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Use FS Panel Studio to "Edit" the .gau and check your resource(s).

Also, I don't see a .rc listing for the "underway_switch_off.bmp"" bitmap???
 
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Capn_Geoff

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Yes, I can see it if FSPS. I am having someone else check out the gau - see if it is specific to the one individual.

There is an off bmp. The bitmaps are part of the .gau file are they not?
 
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Did you use VC++ 200x or similar to build your gauges? If they work fine in your system but not in others, could be a problem related to C++ distributable files that need to be installed in the user system.

Tom
 
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Yes, I am using VC++ 2008 Studio Express although I did not use any C++ functionality. Basically I took the SDK examples and mangled them. Any idea what those files might be?
 
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Capn_Geoff said:
Yes, I can see it if FSPS. I am having someone else check out the gau - see if it is specific to the one individual.

There is an off bmp. The bitmaps are part of the .gau file are they not?
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Well, yes the bitmaps are "part of the .gau file," but only if you have explicitly declared the file name(s) in the .rc file!

You have a resource number #define for the "off" bitmap, but the path/name of the "off" bitmap is not in your .rc file.
 
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