Simviation Forum - Help w existing panel problem please

Sep 4^th, 2003 at 6:09pm

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Hi.

I have a panel that when you push the little icon that brings up the overhead panel...... the panel appears....... but it is outside the aircraft windows. It SHOULD pop up over the windows and the cockpit display.

The other pop up panels in this plane work fine.

I went into the panel.cfg file and looked around. I could find a variable that related to the position that the panel poped up in..... but not one that sort of acted like the "bring to front" function in a graphics program.

How do I fix this?

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...............john

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Reply #1 - Sep 15^th, 2003 at 5:20pm

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please post a pic of what you mean by it being outside the aircraft?. it is not a problem editing it for you if it needs repositioning.

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Reply #2 - Sep 15^th, 2003 at 6:07pm

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I have a panel that when you push the little icon that brings up the overhead panel...... the panel appears....... but it is outside the aircraft windows.

At least there's no chance that when it pops up it knocks your coffee in your lap.... Cheesy

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Reply #3 - Sep 16^th, 2003 at 11:57pm

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Here's a very good way to solve this, if your still having trouble. Download CFG editor from their website. Not sure what it is, sorry...
When downloaded, install and run. Open the panel notepad, and choose the overhead window. Make sure you have "Always In Front" checked. There ya go.

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Reply #4 - Sep 17^th, 2003 at 4:45pm

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http://www.cfgedit.com/index-cfgedit.html

That's the site for CfgEdit.

Good Luck Grin

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Reply #5 - Sep 17^th, 2003 at 9:51pm

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Thanks for the hint.

However..... I seem to remember reading somewhere that Cfgedit cauese some real problems with panels that contained XML gauges when it saved the file.

If I am remembering correctly...... what I read said that if you opened the panel and then resaved it out fo Cfgedit... that the xml gauges would then screw up.

That sound familiar????

The panel in question has a lot of sophisticated XML gauges along with some of the older ones.

best,

.................john

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Reply #6 - Sep 17^th, 2003 at 10:52pm

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I believe you can open any window/panel and then drag it where you want it..even resize it (mouse drag the edges) and for the rest of that session..even if you close it..it'll reopen the way you left it.

I know that's not as good as having it sized and open the way you like.. but you only have to do it once per flight.

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Reply #7 - Sep 18^th, 2003 at 12:50am

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Brett,

No... this is not simply a location issue or a size issue.

The overhead panel comes up BEHIND the aircraft main panel and windows.... so it looks like it is sitting outside the front windows of the aircraft. In the window of the plane where it is exposed.... I can use the mouse cursor and click on it and drag it around a bit....... but it is always staying behind all that other stuff. I cannot get it to move to the front of the layers of panels.

I have moved it's start up location all around in the panel.cfg file. But I can find snything that will move the layer that it appears on to the front.

best,

...............john

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Reply #8 - Sep 18^th, 2003 at 5:09pm

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Thanks for the hint.

However..... I seem to remember reading somewhere that Cfgedit cauese some real problems with panels that contained XML gauges when it saved the file.

If I am remembering correctly...... what I read said that if you opened the panel and then resaved it out fo Cfgedit... that the xml gauges would then screw up.

That sound familiar????

The panel in question has a lot of sophisticated XML gauges along with some of the older ones.

best,

.................john

I have several XML gauges that I have spliced into different panels using CfgEdit, and have never had an issue with them. I think what you read may have been about Panel Studio, CfgEdit's sister program. It has the ability to edit or create gauges, and as a result, may screw up XML coding.

If you are still worried, try downloading CfgEdit, then creating backups of all your XML gauges and the panel.cfg, then edit the original. If it screws up, you can replace everything and have it back to normal.

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Reply #9 - Sep 20^th, 2003 at 12:24am

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[quote author=JBaymore link=1062698959/0#7 date=1063860607]Brett,

The overhead panel comes up BEHIND the aircraft main panel and windows.... so it looks like it is sitting outside the front windows of the aircraft. In the window of the plane where it is exposed.... I can use the mouse cursor and click on it and drag it around a bit....... but it is always staying behind all that other stuff. I cannot get it to move to the front of the layers of panels.

...............john[/quote]

"Ident=" numbers cause things to layer in front or behind others. Higher numbers layer over lower numbers.

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I don't think this is true though for Chuck Dome's gps-dme gauges ("gps-dme"= the standard ones with the little compass circle and distance in them; at least "dme" ["distance measure"] is what I heard they were called). I think they always want to be on top.

That doesn't matter for me 'cause I only open the gpsdme for special things (then close them again), relying on the more realistic adf -radio and -compass. Dome's gauges are real good and necessary though-- they are a shortcut around actual "kneeboard distance plotting" when desired/ needed.

Unfortunately in cfs2 (that's '2'), for some or all(?) panels, opening and closing a gps-dme causes the outside-the-cockpit world --and gunsight-- to jump down. You can reset the outside world sometimes by opening and closing other windows [shft+3,4,5 etc]; I often have an unused "test panel" window at shift+6 or 7 for this reason. This is annoying though. If there is a solution to that I don't know it.

jmc

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