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Hello All:
Does anyone know how to convert the gauges ( the .gau format) to xml format? Are there any tutors on this or a special known utility tool? In other words, I have some gauges that are in the .gau format that I would like to convert to the .xml format.
 
The .gau format is a renamed .dll file, and as such it is compiled C code. Therefore it is not possible to simply convert from one to the other and I suspect you'd be pretty unpopular if you did so since people use .gau files to better protect their efforts and intellectual property.

Si
 
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The .gau format is a renamed .dll file, and as such it is compiled C code. Therefore it is not possible to simply convert from one to the other and I suspect you'd be pretty unpopular if you did so since people use .gau files to better protect their efforts and intellectual property.

Si
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Thank You for the response. Nonetheless, I am not striving for popularity. Second, I believe that you are exaggerating the real truth by indicating that EVERYONE uses the .gau extension file to better protect their efforts and intellectual. Third, there are many other fs conversion utilities such as mdl to xml which is again, is just one conversion tool out of many others. With that being said, I am in search of a tool that will make the .gau files more compatible with fsx. There are many fabulous gauges that developers made that I certainly give full credit to their intellectual knowledge. However and of course, many of these gauges will not work in fsx without some type of compatible conversion tool.
 
Without getting into the political/ethical debate, I'll simply state the plain, ugly truth...

It simply is not possible to "convert" a compiled C gauge project to XML. Period. End of discussion.

The most that could be done would be to use something like GAU2BMP or FS Panel Studio to extract the bitmaps used.

Then you could recycle the original bitmaps, but you'd still have to write the entire XML code from scratch.
 
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