Have taken a brief look through this forum but haven't found anything definitive that answers my questions, so thought to check with those in-the-know, as to how to get started.

I have Abacus' Custom Panel Designer v3.0 and would like to know whether this is an appropriate program to employ with a project for use in FS9/FSX. Am pretty certain that at least some of the gauges included, as well as the bonus CPD gauges, will not be optimal to use, due to the program date (1999-2003). It also seems that the new way to do gauges is to use XML code, something with which I need a good tutorial on. The point of all of this is, to ask whether I ought to go ahead with the above-noted resources, and if not, what direction to take. It just wouldn't be cool to learn another program, get everything going and then find out I have to start over.

Thank ye

Thanks for the info!  Appreciated.