FSX Help with MiniPanel Configuration

[rpmc]

[edit] - nevermind ... each stock FSX aircraft has its own MiniPanel window in the aircraft's panel.cfg...

Is there a simple, efficient way to have a particular XML gauge loaded together with an aircraft, regardless of which aircraft is chosen? That is to say, without adding the gauge to each panel folder and editing each aircraft’s panel.cfg. Additionally, the gauge needs be in its own window so it can be Undocked and moved or closed after it loads.

I’m following up on a suggestion by Essex in this thread to add the gauge to the MiniPanel. I have no experience using minipanels, so I tried this first - I copied the XML gauge (Compound_Rotation.xml) into the MiniPanel folder within the Gauges folder, and then edited MiniPanel.cfg as follows:

; These are all the possible sections we look for
; depending on the aircraft type.  You dont have to
; have all these sections, we will use the most specific one found
;
; [MiniPanels]
; [MiniPanels SingleEngine]
; [MiniPanels MultiEngine]
; [MiniPanels NoVacuum]
;
; [MiniPanels Prop]
; [MiniPanels Prop SingleEngine]
; [MiniPanels Prop MultiEngine]
;
; [MiniPanels TurboProp]
; [MiniPanels TurboProp SingleEngine]
; [MiniPanels TurboProp MultiEngine]
;
; [MiniPanels Jet]
; [MiniPanels Helicopter]

[MiniPanels]
MiniPanel00=Mini Panel Gauges
MiniPanel03=GE VIEW-MiniPanel

[MiniPanels Jet]
MiniPanel01=Mini Panel Gauges for Single Engine Aircraft

[MiniPanels NoVacuum]
MiniPanel02=Mini Panel Gauges for Primitive Aircraft

[MiniPanel00]
position=7
size_mm=600,100
window_size=0.9,0.20
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL
gauge00=MiniPanel!Airspeed,        0, 0, 100, 100
gauge01=MiniPanel!Turn Coordinator,    100, 0, 100, 100
gauge02=MiniPanel!Attitude,        200, 0, 100, 100
gauge03=MiniPanel!Heading Indicator,    300, 0, 100, 100
gauge04=MiniPanel!Altimeter,        400, 0, 100, 100
gauge05=MiniPanel!Vertical Speed,       500, 0, 100, 100

[MiniPanel01]
position=7
size_mm=500,100
window_size=0.75,0.20
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL
gauge00=MiniPanel!Airspeed,        0, 0, 100, 100
gauge01=MiniPanel!Attitude,        100, 0, 100, 100
gauge02=MiniPanel!Heading Indicator,    200, 0, 100, 100
gauge03=MiniPanel!Altimeter,        300, 0, 100, 100
gauge04=MiniPanel!Vertical Speed,       400, 0, 100, 100

[MiniPanel02]
position=7
size_mm=400,100
window_size=0.6,0.20
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL
gauge00=MiniPanel!Airspeed,        0, 0, 100, 100
gauge01=MiniPanel!Compass,        100, 0, 100, 100
gauge02=MiniPanel!Altimeter,        200, 0, 100, 100
gauge03=MiniPanel!Vertical Speed,       300, 0, 100, 100

[MiniPanel03]
position=4
size_mm=110,90
visible=1
window_size_ratio=1.00
gauge00=MiniPanel!Compound_Rotation, 0,    0,    110,    90

Note that the lines I added are:

MiniPanel03=GE VIEW-MiniPanel

and

[MiniPanel03]
position=4
size_mm=110,90
visible=1
window_size_ratio=1.00
gauge00=MiniPanel!Compound_Rotation, 0,    0,    110,    90

It works well for my third-party aircraft, a Flight1 Cessna 421.

However, it does not add Compound_Rotation.xml to any of the stock FSX aircraft panels or minipanels.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Bob