FSX/FSX-SE Aircraft and Panel Design Forum - How To

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Hello gentlemen. Ths is my first posting here but i have used this forum numerous times to get answers - thank you!I am building a Trimble 1000DC GPS gauge, and have run into a stumper for a problem.I have coded the gauge to sucessfully scroll through the 20 Nearest Airport, VOR's, NDB's, and Intersections, but the info for them is limited. I also want to have the Waypoint Information for each of them available at the same time for additional details.I have been able to get this to work nicely for Airport data by putting the following in the "Update" sectionC:fs9gps(A:GPS POSITION LAT, Radians) (>@c:NearestAirportCurrentLatitude, Radians) (A:GPS POSITION LON, Radians) …

has ne1 seen this before? the only c gauges i have are doug's sound, fuel dump, and window status. or does the c++ in the error have nothing to do with c gauges?ideas??

%(360 (A: Plane heading degrees gyro, degrees) (A:ADF Radial:1,degrees) + dnor near d 0 == ?)%!03d!Could someone please redo this string for me to read magnetic bearing to station?Thanks ever so much in advance.John

Hello everybody! I would like to make a small request. The new Boeing 717 as a spectacular new gauge, a gauge to insert tour flight number, so that wend ATC is calling you, after a wild, you don't have to look in your paper sheets for you flight number. As in picture below:Can some one something like this to introduce in any aircraft panel. Thank you in advance, best regards,Jose Borges

Hi all, sorry my english but i speak spanish. Can some body tell me what i have to do to simulate the current from the APU or ground power system? The problem is that the battery goes off passed a time.Thanks to allEduardo S

Is it possible to have an XML guage read data from amother source than A:Vars?Txt or ini file or whatever list is available.I would like to be able to read RWY course, ILS frequency etc. and use that in K:EventsSomething like that is done by RwyInfo.gau but that is a C++ gauge I think.Your help is very much appriciated.Roelof

I've just posted a short tutorial in the file library explaining how to start using Borland C++Builder4 Professional to create a C gauge. The file name is:BorlandCPPBuilder-V1.0.zipBorland C++Builder4 Professional is the only version of this compiler I have but I would hope the advice given should be applicable to other versions - especially later ones.BTW I hope there are other Borland users here - or am I out on a limb?

Hello XML Gods of AVSIM.This is my first post here but I have been using this forum as a reference for some time.I am in the process of building a quite complex MFD system for a Raytheon T-6B prototype. The MFD works on a basic logic to allow easy modification, with each page of the MFD being allocated an enumerated value using (L:page_select, enum).Now, the problem I am having with so many pages, is with my Case statements and logical OR mathematics.Problem 1:Why doesn't the set of elements below this line display when the values of 91 and 92 are in the variable. I know the variable has the correct number in it at the time b/c I have set up a debug gauge as well.((L:pa…

Hi guys !Could anyone be so kind to explain me how to program a sound in gauges (FSACOF) ?I know the PLAYSOUND statement, but i need to know how to play more sounds in the same time (LOOPING) without the last stopping the first.Thank you in advance ;-)

Hi there. My FSDS2 v2.2.4 is refusing to create texture lists or import and apply textures. When clicking on textures to select them, the program crashes.I have tried re-installing, and have plenty of memory. System is a 3.4Ghz with ATI X800. I have FSDS3, which is having no problem with textures. Would like to finish a present project with FSDS2, though.Anybody had this problem, or have an idea what is causing it?Mike F.

How can I edit the night lighting color of an XML gauge? Thanks

I have coded plenty of statements like this:AUTO------------------------------------------------I think about 60 or so. They actually need to be printed only once. How does one properly put these statements within an if{ }?Something like?: (L:Var1, bool) 0 || ! if(60 Elements like above -----------------------1 (>L:Var1, bool) } Roelof

I spent a whole evening trying to figure out how to do this, but alas!

Any good ones out there at all for using Macros in XML?Cheers,Daz.

Hi,I would like to know what are the variables you can use to modify the plane response to elevator yoke control. I have some planes that are more sensible to input than others, and since I have FSUIPC installed, that is all my joystick sensibilities set as FSUIPC manual suggest, I'm afraid it's a problem related to the single aircraft. I would like to know if my new settings interfere with FSUIPC good working, and where to write these settings (I guess aircraft.cfg?).If someone would point me to a good tutorial I would be grateful as well...Thank youFrancesco

HI: I am going to develope my gauges from vc6.First I make a new empty dll project from appwizard, and I copy the fs2004 panel sdk's part sample to this project.When to test this gauge, everything is ok except that the gauge's background is not transparent.Any so some back part of this gauge can't be seen. How to carry it out? Thanks!!!

Hello,This is probablly not the right forum but I could not find much at Abacus. I upgraded from FSDS2 and downloaded the make mdl sdk. I have an existing plane plane that I want to modify. Three things are going on:1. Sometimes the plane will compile but most of the time it won't. There is an error message "unable to read normals temp file."2. Some textures show up in FS9 but most surfaces are blank. The texture file is present and has everything in it. In FSDS3 the plane shows up with all the textures on it.3. The smallest problem, on compiling I always have to select the aircraft file to use. Previously, once it was selected the first time it defaulted to that one for …

Hi,I wonder if there is a way to shorten the landing distance of an aircraft. Maybe by tweaking the air.cfg file (or more) by AI aircraft so that they can land everywhere . Running FS2002.Thanks. Jos

Hi guys.I'm still battling on with my intro to Gmax in building a glider model, but am having a couple of problems once I export the plane to FS9.Problem #1:The model appears fine in Gmax (see attached pics) but once installed in FS9 the skin of the right wing shows up with the normals apparently back to front, i.e. the skin in visible on the inside surface of the wing. I constructed the left wing first, then grouped it before adding the animations, and mirror-copied the group to create the right wing. The animations for the speed brakes and adjusting the aileron pivots was done after this mirroring process.Problem #2Why won't my canopy open?I created the canopy frame (us…

Hi!Here's another gauge I would like to try to create. I have a gauge that controls a simple animation of an oxygen system. I would like to make it a bit more than an animation.First, I would like to add a switch to turn it on and off. Reading the FAQ I believe a switch can connect to the "L:"-statement in the gauge I am using:"(P:Absolute time, seconds) 4 % 2 > if{ 1 (> L:OXFLOW, bool) } els{ 0 (> L:OXFLOW, bool) } (L:OXFLOW, bool)"Secondly, if possible I would like to trigger the blackout effect if the oxygen system isn't enabled above a certain altitude.Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this?Best,Roger

Happy New Year to you all. The operator && will check if the 2 last stack entries are both 1. Is there an operator that will check if both are 0 (zero) ?I could not find it in Anne Bartels listThere is a work around of course but stll wondering. Except from not showing does it still execute the code or does it skip the code all together? Roelof

I would like to know how to make an aircraft visible or invisible in the aircraft selection list. I have AirEd but don't know what to look for.

is there a way to access and write to the G-force blackout effect in fs9? looked for it in the sdk but did not find it.i know you turn it off and on in the settings.i looked in the effects folder but did not see a lickly name for it.i want an oxygen starvation black out ( i know g-force is o2 starve) but rather one that is called because you run out of o2 in the tank or loose cabin pressure. if you can not write to the fs9 blackout, is any1 aware of a blackout effect some1 has written? tried making a gauge, but bitmap results are primative looking.and i do not know how to do a rectangle fill with transparent colors.i can color="xxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" x case but they are no…

Hi all. I was wondering how I'd go about extracting the terrain height at a GPS coordinate I specify. From a search of the forums, I know that as of FS2002 there was no way to do this, but I also know that people have done terrain following radars since then, and I don't see how that could be done without somehow knowing the outlay of the terrain in front of you. What is the secret here? (This is for my Hornet Heads Up Display. I've fixed things and added some very cool features - energy caret, HUD steering (an HSI-like display tacked onto the velocity vector), etc... and I'm also adding a "Mark" feature that lets you put your plane's current coordinates into a GPS waypoi…