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XML Fuel Gauge

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flynby

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Can someone design a digital XML fuel gauge that would show the percent of fuel remaining using a digital number readout that could be used in jet fighters or any other aircraft FS9 and FSX?

Always have to press "shift + z" twice to view remaining fuel amount. Like the gauge to match the number seen there. Prefer black background with red numbers, if possible. At 65, knowledge of XML is "0".
Thanks
 
Hasn't someone come along and made you a gauge yet? It's easy to do, make yourself a new folder inside your gauges folder, name it "fuel_quantity" for example.

Paste the following code to Notepad and save it in the new folder as "fuel_percent.xml" :

Code: 
<Gauge Name="fuel_percent" Version="1.0">

<Element>
<Rectangle Width="210" Height="35" FillColor="BLACK" Transparency="0"/>
</Element>

<Element>
<Position X="5" Y="5"/>
<Text X="190" Y="26" Length="19" Fixed="no" Font="Arial" Attributes="Bold" Adjust="right" VerticalAdjust="center" Color="#FF0000" Bright="Yes">

<String>TOTAL FUEL: %(100 (A:fuel total quantity, gallons) (A:fuel total capacity,gallons) / *)%!3.1f! %%</String>
</Text>
</Element>

</Gauge>


Then add the new gauge to the panel.cfg of your choice like this:

(for the default FS9 Lear 45)
gauge34=fuel_quantity!fuel_percent, 8, 65, 131, 22

(for the default FSX Lear 45)
gauge25=fuel_quantity!fuel_percent, 746, 251, 210, 35

There, now your knowledge of XML is +1. :)

Jim
 
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