[quote author=FS_Pilot link=1132160944/0#0 date=1132160944]I would like to creat a panel with hot spots on some of the gauges so as to display them larger for easier reading. Can anyone please tell me how to do it?
Thanks Allen[/quote]
Well, with XML gauges it's pretty simple to do. You just define
the X,Y locations of the left, right, top and bottom of the area
you wish to define as a "hot spot"....
Here is a sample of XML code from a fuel tank selector switch
gauge that I created for a panel:
<Mouse>
<Area Left="0" Right="13" Top="12" Bottom="26">
<Tooltip>Left Aux</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click>5 (>L:Fuel Selector 1,enum) 12 (>K:FUEL_SELECTOR_SET)</Click>
</Area>
<Area Left="0" Right="17" Top="0" Bottom="11">
<Tooltip>Left Main</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click>3 (>L:Fuel Selector 1,enum) 4 (>K:FUEL_SELECTOR_SET)</Click>
</Area>
<Area Left="18" Right="34" Top="0" Bottom="12">
<Tooltip>ALL</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click>2 (>L:Fuel Selector 1,enum) 1 (>K:FUEL_SELECTOR_SET)</Click>
</Area>
<Area Left="35" Right="53" Top="0" Bottom="12">
<Tooltip>Right Main</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click>4 (>L:Fuel Selector 1,enum) 5 (>K:FUEL_SELECTOR_SET)</Click>
</Area>
<Area Left="35" Right="53" Top="13" Bottom="27">
<Tooltip>Right Aux</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click>6 (>L:Fuel Selector 1,enum) 11 (>K:FUEL_SELECTOR_SET)</Click>
</Area>
<Area Left="35" Right="53" Top="28" Bottom="43">
<Tooltip>Fuel OFF</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click>1 (>L:Fuel Selector 1,enum) 0 (>K:FUEL_SELECTOR_SET)</Click>
</Area>
<Area Left="0" Right="39" Top="33" Bottom="52">
<Tooltip>Engine 1 Fuel Tank Select</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
</Area>
<Area Left="14" Right="39" Top="13" Bottom="32">
<Tooltip>Engine 1 Fuel Tank Select</Tooltip>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
</Area>
</Mouse>
Note that these specifications use the "<Tooltip>" specification
to display text when the cursor is over the defined Area, and also
uses the <Click> specification to enable some action(s) to be taken
when the mouse button is activated in that Area.
All four area specs...left,right,top,bottom need not be present
is, for instance, you only have two "hot spots" on a gauge
seperated vertically. Then you just specify the left and right
parameters and the spots will extend from the top to bottom
of the gauge.
Id you only need one "hot spot" on a gauge, covering the entire
gauge, then something like this will work:
<Mouse>
<Help ID="HELPID_GAUGE_LIGHT_SWITCH_TAXI"/>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click Event="TOGGLE_TAXI_LIGHTS"/>
</Mouse>
To make the gauge larger, you could create a window with the
gauge specified to be larger than the main panel gauge.
The hot spots would then cause the panel(s) to open or close
when clicked upon.
here's a sample of XML code for opening an "IFR" window:
<Gauge Name="IFR" Version="1.0">
<Image Name="Icon_IFR.bmp" ImageSizes="19,19"/>
<Mouse>
<Cursor Type="Hand"/>
<Click>175 (>K:PANEL_ID_TOGGLE)</Click>
<Tooltip ID="">Display/Hide IFR Panel</Tooltip>
<Help ID=""/>
</Mouse>
</Gauge>
In this case I used an Icon as the "hot spot" to toggle panel ID 175.
This could just as easily been embedded in a gauge on the main panel
and panel ID175 a window containing only the "expanded" gauge.
A similar "hot spot" would also be embeded in the expanded gauge
to close the window.
Each expanded gauge window would use a different ID, specified
in the panel.cfg [Windowxx] section:
ident=175
Hope this answers your question.
Paul
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