Simviation Forum - Panel Design

Dec 31^st, 2005 at 12:19pm

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Hey a quick question anyone know a good freeware panel design program? dont bother mentioning payware as i have no money for that and it will make me jelous Wink

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Reply #1 - Dec 31^st, 2005 at 11:30pm

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Notepad! 8)

Once you figure it out, it's not too hard to design a panel by hand typing it Wink

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Reply #2 - Jan 1^st, 2006 at 2:29am

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yea i have done that its easy but i was hopeing for a grapic one so i could see the product as i made it

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Reply #3 - Jan 1^st, 2006 at 2:35am

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What version of FS are you using?

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Reply #4 - Jan 1^st, 2006 at 3:08pm

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FS9

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Reply #5 - Jan 2^nd, 2006 at 3:19am

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Right, with FS9 your search to find a 'graphical panel editor' as freeware may be limited. I do not know of any.

With versions up to 2002 there was the excellent freeware 'CFGEdit', this has now been turned into a commercial program for FS9, 'Panel Studio' here: www.fspanelstudio.com/

It is a very good program, and if you are serious about good panel design, it is a must and very simple to use.
You may have to bite the bullet and cough up $29 I think.

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Reply #6 - Jan 2^nd, 2006 at 10:25am

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cfgEdit still works tolerably well with FS9, its biggest limitation being its inability to display .xml gauges.

On the plus side it's free and a lot easier to work with than notepad.

It is available here http://www.simviation.com/fsdesign_panels1.htm

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Reply #7 - Jan 6^th, 2006 at 7:41pm

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Hi, cfgedit is the best tool around it does not allow you to "see" xml gauges but you can still move there psoitions around the place. It is one of the best freeware tolls around for fs.

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Reply #8 - Jan 6^th, 2006 at 7:43pm

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Hi, cfgedit is the best tool around it does not allow you to "see" xml gauges but you can still move there psoitions around the place. It is one of the best freeware tolls around for fs.

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Reply #9 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 10:13am

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The payware version of Cfgedit. Is not too expensive. and does support, XML guage editing and creating. I skipped lunch for a coupla weeks and it was well worth the loss of calories!

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Reply #10 - Jan 8^th, 2006 at 12:27pm

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It really depends on what you want to do. CfgEdit is perfectly fine for the occasional modification & it's free. The main disadvantage of not readfing XML gauges can be easily overcome with a little lateral thinking & manual editing of Panel.cfg. If you're serious about designing panels try CfgEdit first & look at it as a free trial version of FS Panel Studio.

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