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Transfer of gauges from one plane to another (Read 178 times)
Feb 20th, 2005 at 1:03pm

VOHY_VO0I   Offline
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Hello,

I downloaded some real good panels which have very good gauges. Now, i would like to transfer few gauges from one aircraft to another. Is this possible? If yes how?

For example there is this guage in the A320 panel which shows the rudder position, ailerons positions and trim position. I want this guage to show up in other panels too.

Hope someone can help me out with this. Thanks
 

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Reply #1 - Feb 20th, 2005 at 10:34pm

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Yes you can do that. You can manually edit the panel.cfg of the acft. panel you want to put it into. You really need to know what you are doing here if doing it manually.

To make it simpler, get a program called CFGEdit. It is a free panel design program, fairly simple. Check to use FS2000, browse to your FS9 and there ya go. Look at the panel.cfg of the panel that has the gauge you want to move, note the EXACT name. Now Start CFGEdit and browse to the acft. you want to add that gauge to. Open up the panel, here you might have to remove a gauge to make room for your new one or move things around. Then hit the "add a gauge" button and browse to THAT gauge you like. Position it around to were you like, size it to your liking and then save. CFGEdit makes a backup automatically for you.

CFGEdit will not display XML gauges, but you can still use them, you just won't have a visual of it in the panel program.

Play with it for a bit and I bet you will be modifying your own panels to your liking in no time.   Grin
 

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Reply #2 - Feb 21st, 2005 at 5:01am

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Thanks a lot Man.

I'll download the program and try out what you said. The only problem being - time.

Anyway, thanks once again.
 

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Reply #3 - Feb 22nd, 2005 at 12:08pm

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There is a payware version  that will allow you to work with XML gauges. The program is called FLIGTHPANEL STUDIO it is the big brother of CFGEDIT It does the same thing as cfgedit since it is the same thing the only differance is the ablity to read and make XML gauges.
You can find it at www.flightpanelstudio.com
 
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Reply #4 - Feb 23rd, 2005 at 6:58pm

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But, if all you have is cfgedit, you can still work with xml gauges simply by using a .gau gauge that will show up in cfgedit in order to set the size and location of the desired xml gauge and then open the panel.cfg and manually type in the name of the xml gauge you wish to use.  Now, if you use cfgedit to copy gayges from one panel to another you will have to save out your work everytime you leave the panel you are working on to go to one from which you are copying.  It will leave you with a ton of panel.cfg back-ups but they can be manually cleared out if you don't want them all.
 

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