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Jun 21^st, 2003 at 12:54am

Randy Burke Guest

I am new to making panels and was wondering about how to make it where when you click on a button it opens a new window with the guauge. For example I am using cfg.edit to make my panels. I want to know how to put the avionics button on the panel and have it to where you click on that to open the radio panel. Right now when I go into FS and click on the button nothing happens. Plz help

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Reply #1 - Jun 21^st, 2003 at 4:38am

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When in doubt it's a good idea to use a default example for comparison. The panel windows must be configured in the correct order for those buttons to function. Here's the relevant entries from the B737_400 panel.cfg.

[Window Titles]
window00=Main Panel

window01=Radio Stack

Window02=GPS
window03=Throttle Quadrant
window04=Overhead Panel
window05=Compass

[Window01]

size_mm=127,345
position=8
visible=0
BACKGROUND_COLOR=16,16,16
ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL

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Reply #2 - Jun 21^st, 2003 at 7:58am

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I'm a little new to panel design, as Hagar can attest, but I think he left out one thing about the simicions.

These buttons seem to be keyed to the "ident=" entry. In Hagar's example the 737 uses the Simicons!Avionics button. Clicking on this button will open whatever window is identified as "ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL".

Similarly, clicking on the Simicons!GPS button will open whatever window is identified ad "ident=GPS_PANEL", and so on.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

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Reply #3 - Jun 21^st, 2003 at 8:29am

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Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I haven't played with panels for a while so please feel free to put me right. Wink

I always thought the simicon buttons (& similar 3rd party switches) are assigned to the window number rather than the ident. I could be wrong but don't think this entry is too important - it's purely a reference. You can use both the same window number & ident= entry as a default panel to be absolutely certain.

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Reply #4 - Jun 21^st, 2003 at 8:47am

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Maybe that's what happens when you use my programming style ("Hit a button and see what happens"). I redesigned a panel to include a military style radio in the main window but a popup autopilot. I named the autopilot window "radio stack" and it pops up then I hit the avionics button.

[Window Titles]
Window00=Main Panel
Window01=Radio Stack
Window02=GP
Window03=Annunciator ...

[Window00] ...
gauge42=SimIcons!Avionics Icon, 379,380,17,17 ...
gauge45=f15j2_radio, 20,470,155,12 <-- Radio gauge in main window...

[Window01]
Background_color=2,2,2
size_mm=120,37
window_size_ratio=1.00
position=2
visible=0
ident=RADIO_STACK_PANEL
window_size= 0.357, 0.094
window_pos= 0.265, 0.037
gauge00=JALG.AUTOPILOT, 0,0,120,36

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