Add a pop up 2D panel

[TonyWaldron]

Hi,

 

I have an add-on aircraft (Vans RV8/8A from Vertigo Studios)) to which I'd like add a 2D panel of the default FSX GPS. The aircraft does have a GPS displayed but in order to see it you need to look down, losing the outside view, and zoom in, so that's not ideal. If I could add a GPS Panel as a pop up to display on the windscreen it would improve the usability of this aircraft for me.

 

Any help, or pointing me to an older post, on this would be much appreciated.

 

Regards,

 

Tony

[llivaudais]

Been there, done that! I like the rectangular GPS, despise the small hand-held unit so I frequently replace the small one with the large and use the exact same procedure to add the gps-500 to any other aircraft.

 

Pop-up Windows are defined in each panel.cfg

I almost always make a copy of any config file that I'm going to edit so I have a copy of the original if I mess up the edit

 

Each window is listed at the top of the cfg like a table of contents and there is a definition after that which describes what is in the window. You can change order so long as you change both the table portion and the description portion so the keep the same number and physical order in the listings.

 

I want the sythetic ILS panel add-on in my Baron instead of the compass so the before/after table entries look like this:

 

// Panel Configuration file (ORIGINAL)

// Beech Baron 58

// Copyright © 2001-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

 

[Window Titles]

Window00=Main Panel

Window01=Radio Stack

Window02=GPS

Window03=Throttle Quadrant

Window04=Compass

Window05=Mini Panel

 

-------------------------------

 

// Panel Configuration file (REPLACEMENT)

// Beech Baron 58 ------- added "anywhere ILS" gauge ----------------------

// Copyright © 2001-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

 

[Window Titles]

Window00=Main Panel

Window01=Radio Stack

Window02=GPS

Window03=Throttle Quadrant

Window04=ILS MFD

Window05=Mini Panel

 

Down below, the description original section for Compass is removed

 

[Window04]

size_mm=70

windowsize_ratio=1.0

position=2

visible=0

ident=COMPASS_PANEL

gauge00=Magnetic_Compass!Magnetic-Compass,0,0

 

and the provided ILS description is pasted into the now-empty #4 description section

 

[Window04]

Background_color=0,0,0

size_mm=140,155

position=3

visible=0

ident=2017

zorder=25

gauge00=ILS_MFD!zzDAT37, 0,0,140,155

 

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The ILS_MFD gauge itself is placed in the Gauges folder so it will be available for any/every aircraft to use.

 

To add a new gauge is essentially the same procedure except that you INSERT the table entry at the top and the description entry in the same relative location taking the correct sequence number and increasing all those below by 1. So you would add ILS gauge table entry into (for example) the table following item 3, number it 4, and raise all the following entries by 1 to maintain the sequence. Add the description following #3 and list it as 4, and raise the following one so they number 5 and up.

 

Mistakes happen so you Always have a copy of the original so you can start the editing over if problems occur. And they will.

 

Loyd

[napamule2]

[Window Titles]

 

Window02=GPS

 

 

[VIEWS]

VIEW_FORWARD_WINDOWS=MAIN_PANEL,RADIO_STACK_PANEL,

GPS_PANEL,13,32,

 

VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=9.500, 0.000, 0.000

 

 

 

 

//--------------------------------------------------------

[Window02] //Shift+3

Background_color=0,0,0

size_mm=456,378

window_size_ratio=1.000

position=8

visible=0

ident=GPS_PANEL

window_size= 0.390, 0.430

window_pos= 0.610, 0.570

 

gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0,0