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FSX Missing Gauges In Overhead

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I created push button gauges for the Feelthere ERJ 175 Overhead panel and the gauges worked in the past in FSX. I placed them on the Overhead Panel with FS Panel Studio and they appear there. They are in the panel.cfg in [Window 01] Overhead correctly. They are 4 push button gauges. Simple xml gauges with bmps. When I open up the aircraft in FSX at the airport, they are not on the panel. Only the background of FT's Panel is. There are 2 others that ARE there that I placed. The Overhead is a complete gauge from FT. Does anyone have any idea why?
 
Assuming they work earlier as you said and there is no induced error in the code...it could be a bug of FSPS I have seen this before. You can try resizing the gauges just for sake of testing and see whether they appear after refreshing...
 
Nice thought, but no luck. They are in the panel in FSPS; in the panel.cfg, but invisible in FSX. I really wanted them there only for the pre-flight checklist so I can just mouse-click on the background bmp as I can the gauges so I'm not to waste any more time on FSX anomalies. There are too many of them to try and figure them out 10 years after it was designed and no one around to explain why it does what it does, I've just learned to live with them and move on. Thank you.
 
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Post the lines of the missing gauges from the panel.cfg file, and where these gauges are located on your computer.
 
The panel cfg is in the zip folder because that is the only way it would attach it. All gauges except the main Feelthere Overhead gauge which is in the panel folder are in the FSX gauges folder. I had them in the panel folder and though i know FSX is supposed to look there first, I thought there may be a conflict and removed them from there. Thanks for helping.
 

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The Overhead is a complete gauge from FT.
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That us why it doesn't show. The overhead FT gauge fills the entire overhead planar. (1600x886)
Sometimes gauges on top of each other will work, sometimes not. It depends what the background gauge is drawing (static, mask ect..) behind the gauges you want to install.
You could try placing the FT gauge last in the "gauge##=" list instead of first -or- use draw_order##
Neither of which will guarantee it to work, it just isn't proper to lay gauges on top of each other.

Also a note - many time the sim does not like negative X/Ys for the gauge placement. Currently the FT overhead is at : gaugeXX=EJet!Overhead, -1,0,1600,886 you may want to change that to --> gaugeXX=EJet!Overhead, 0,0,1600,886
 
thank you taking the time to help. I will try all of the recommendations and post back what happens. I followed all the suggestions. I understand what you say about overlaying the gauges on top of the main overhead from FT but that is the ONLY way to do this because of how they created it. It is not a bmp with their gauges laid ontop of it. As above. None of these is a "deal-breaker" of not being able to fly the aircraft. It is just disappointing. I seem to remember them working before but I have not flown this in 2 years so I may be mistaken and have "thrown in the towel" before and just flown the aircraft. The fire handles both work and cut the engines when there is a fire which I HAVE tested by creating engine failure(s) in the sim. Again, thanks. I don't think there is anything else to do. As with everything quip of FSX as my friend is fond of saying: "IT IS WHAT IT IS!"
 
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