Is it possible to do without a xxxxx_background image? (when making an .xml gauge.)

Is it possible to create a gauge without a background image?

Sorry, probably very straightforward answer, but not an easy search term,

no clear results from Google, and my brain is mush.

I have several that start like this:

etc,
etc,

(where xxxxxxxx is a name)

I would like to do without the line:

Reason, in many gauges the background image is just a black rectangle.

In a panel section ( [WindowXX]-section) I just found out, an image is not needed.

I was hoping it was possible to do without image in a gauge as well.

gsaauge i'm looking at at the moment is xml.

Made with Ace.exe.

Simple text/number showing IAS/ Mach/ Hdg/ Wind speed/ etc.

Has black background image.

I was hoping to do without.

I was also hoping to re-write it to a non-Ace format, so it will work in FS9 as well.

So this question is more directed at "once rewritten, is this an option.

Or, in other gauges of mine, Non-Ace, is this easily possible?

(Question is Not: 'How to do this in Ace." Please don't explain that, as I said, my brain is mush.)

Is it as simple as just not adding the line?!

Thanks in advance,

il88pp.

Image of the gauge I'm looking at. (made with Ace, background is black rectangle).

Not a single other image involved. All xml.

Want last image gone as well.

Hah! Got ift for the Ace.exe one I was looking at.

Replaced:

0.000,0.000

True

by

0.000,0.000
230,74

(In short, replaced: )

True

by

230,74

It works great!

Found that here, in the first post. (creative reading.).

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/is-there-someting-wrong-with-my-bitmaps-xml.433005/

Screeny:

Happy Flights!

il.

At a closer look:

-the image in post 1 is different from post #3. In post 1 I was still using a background. It was actually a grey rectangle.

-Post# 4, No background image.

I thought, gauge makes black background by itself.

Wrong, I see now.

Reading the thread I linked, I see that I actually ended up making the gauge transparant. The black you see is the result of

the colour of the 2D panel background. (In this case no image in the [WindowXX] section either, just a line with 0,0,0 as colour definition in the panel.cfg file.)

All fine for a popup panel.

But of course people would try to do things with the background. (Putting the gauge on a main panel, or perhaos trying to increase the size of my [WindowXX ] section, changing it's colour, perhaps adding more gauges.)

I would like:

"to define not only a size in the gauge, as I did now, but also a colour."

Where that the gauge "paints it own background black", without the 2D panel background shining

through. Yet without having to add any images.

Thoughts? Would be very welcome!

I'm thinking: "those boxes (containing either text, or speeds) in the gauge, were already black in post 1.

Maybe define such a box at the start of the gauge? (WIthout content.)

And hope the other boxes still appear on top?

It's been a while since I did this gauge. Starting Ace seems like a huge hurdle. Would hate to do that without being sure there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Could someone give indication if that would go anywhere?

Thnaks much!

il

Fixed it.

This was the issue- Image:

Now fixed by adding an extra element before all the others. Code below.

Result:

Like so:

(Be Aware: ID's and filenames blanked out!!!)

        Type="AceXML"
       version="1,0"
       id="xxxxxxxxx">
AceXML Document
xxxxxxxxxxxx.xml

230,74

0.000,0.000

1
230
74
darkslateblue
black

Now works as planned! Not a single image needed. Can use it as a 2D panel, using no background image in the panel.cfg either.

And those who want can place it on a main panel too if desired.

Happy Chappy!

Thanks for listening guys.:D;)

Wiggle Wiggle!

il88pp.