Bill Grabowski's ERJ panel for 2004

[sgtoro]

I have installed Bill's 2004 ERJ panel exactly as instructed and am having the following problem. As I can't seem to get a "cure" from Bill, I thought I'd throw it out to the experts here.

When the panel loads, everything is there as it should be. There are four main "layers" the instruments, main panel, yoke and overhead panel. The problem is when the instruments (mostly mfd's) are displayed, the main panel switches and mouse click points do not work at all. When I remove the instruments in any of several ways ("shift 2" drag them away with the mouse or uncheck them in the drop down menu) all the switches and mouse click points areas work fine. The overhead panel is not affected because it not covered by the instrument layer. I know the issue has to do with the different layers but as a "hacker" can't find a way to fix it. There were some other posts the seemed to indicate this was not just my issue. I run FS2004, Windows 2000 pro, 3 gig processor, 128mg of video ram and 1 gig of memory. I also have the latest version of FSUIPC. Any help would be appreciated. Bill has done a great job with this functional panel and I'd like to be able to use it as it was intended.
Thanks and regards
Rich

[n4gix]

Your question is quite specific, and short of downloading and installing it myself - which I absolutely have no time for - any suggestions I might give are based on "intelligent guesswork..."

You might start by adding an entry to each of the four "layers," i.e., the WindowXX sections, and provide a sequential zorder to them:

zorder=0 (for the Window00 section)

zorder=1 (for the Window01 section)

etc.

This will guarantee that the windows are always drawn in this precise order.

[sgtoro]

Bill,
Thanks for the response but I'm not sure what you're talking about. Is this a change to one of the files? As I said, I'm just a "hacker" and a dangerous one at that. If you go to this link, there's screenshots and and another description of my problem. http://www.fsnordic.net/discussion/index.php/topic,70746.0.html
I really appreciate your response and help.
Regards
Rich

[n4gix]

Having looked at your screen shots, I can see that the problem with the mouse points becoming inactive is because of the transparent background where the mouse rectangles are located...

These gauges are designed to overlay the base window's bitmap, and when you move them the mouse rectangle areas no longer have anything "behind them." This means they "disappear."

Why are you wanting to move the screens?

As for my first suggestion, it's simply a matter of opening the aircraft.cfg file in notepad.exe and adding a new entry to each of the WindowXX sections.

[sgtoro]

Bill,
I don't want to move the screens. The only way the switches and mouse points will work is with the instruments either turned off or moved out of the way. The instrument layer seems to negate anything else on the main panel from working. Would it be possible for you to give me the edit to the aircraft config file and then I can paste it in. I just don't have enough "savy" to attempt the edit. Would it be the panel or aircraft config file. As you can see this is a very functional panel which reqires more than just advancing the throttles and flying. I would love to have it fully functional. Thanks again I really appreciate you taking your valuable time to help me with this.
Regards
Rich