Jason210 Posted April 15, 2020 Posted April 15, 2020 Hi I am making a simple XML gauge for p3d, which is just a clipboard for navigation purposes. It has a gaugeString that lists a few things. One of the things I wanted to add to it was an endurance feature, but all the fuel variables I try to use always have values of zero. For example, A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY is zero. For example: Fuel Capacity: %(A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY, gallons)%!d!\n ...will show zero all the time, as will A:FUEL TOTAL CAPACITY, A:FUEL FLOW and many other A: prefixed variables. Any idea why this is happening? I'm not an experienced developer in this field. I notice also that trying to use ZULU TIME just caused an exception (which I assume was caught somehow because nothing aft that was displayed). Jason
PhantomTweak Posted April 15, 2020 Posted April 15, 2020 Did you try %((A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY,gallons))%!d! Notice: no space between the comma, and the gallons, also, you need DOUBLE parenthesis around the variable. Does this help at all? Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D
Jason210 Posted April 15, 2020 Author Posted April 15, 2020 A big help thank you! I would never have guessed it was the double brackets. Why on earth does it need double brackets? Ah well.
PhantomTweak Posted April 16, 2020 Posted April 16, 2020 A big help thank you! I would never have guessed it was the double brackets. Why on earth does it need double brackets? Ah well. I am sure there's a reason. I can do some more research to find out why, if you so desire, or I can post the page I was using to find out about the doubles. That way you can read it for yourself. Up to you :) Anywho, I'm glad I could help a little :D BTW, there's a forum called FSDevelopers, and they are a LOT better at XML than I am. I can post their address, if you like, or you can do the google thing to find it. Again, up to you :) Have fun, and I wish you great good fortune. XML seems bass-ackwards, but it works great once you get it down. Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D
Jason210 Posted April 19, 2020 Author Posted April 19, 2020 No, you've done enough, thanks. I found the FSDevelopers place and I'm probably better off heading there for future questions.
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